We've been listening to propaganda for months now about how grass root TEA Party conservatives are "hostage takers", "terrorists", and violent. As usual, this is a classic case of projection by the leftists. See here:
Union Members take guards hostage and damage property in rampage
Not only do these union members take hostages, they damage property that doesn't belong to them because they're aren't getting everything they want. While millions of people have no jobs, and millions more are working part time when they want to be working full time, these fools walk off their jobs, then get violent because the company goes and hires other (union) people to do the work that needs doing. So now they're going to cause the price of grain to rise even more than it already has by wasting this food, and damaging the means of transporting it to people that need it.
On top of that the damage that will need to be repaired and cost the companies more money -- money they won't have to give any raises or bonuses to their employees or hire more people this year and perhaps beyond.
I guess the one good thing is they didn't listen to Hoffa and "take out" the "SOB" hostages while they were at it.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
On the US Debt Downgrade
Looking at all the finger pointing going on right now, I almost have to laugh. Especially at those who blame the downgrade on not collecting even more taxes. Put very simply, for even the biggest airhead to understand, when was the last time Congress didn't spend every dime of tax revenue it received, and then about forty percent more on top of that?
Social security is the biggest example of this, hands down. The so-called "Trust Fund" is empty of money and full of IOUs (US Debt) that now have less than AAA rating on top of everything. Or how about the cutting Medicare by $500 billion? Did that go toward reform and putting the program into the black? No. It went to form an even bigger, unsustainable welfare program, "ObamaCare".
The government could raise taxes by 50% on everybody and Congress would still piss it all away and then need to borrow more on top of all that. The only way to get this fiscal mess turned around is to CUT SPENDING NOW. Not fake cuts that say we'll lower the increases in spending over ten years, real cuts.
The fault lies squarely on both Democrats and RINO Republicans that would not get behind -- and stand behind -- a serious proposal for cutting spending. (Read the S&P commentary and they mention the Paul Ryan budget by name as a plan that could have avoided all this). If RINOs had the testicular fortitude to stand up to Obama and Reid, and if Obama, Pelosi and Reid themselves weren't so irresponsible in their spending the last two and a half years, this wouldn't have happened.
Social security is the biggest example of this, hands down. The so-called "Trust Fund" is empty of money and full of IOUs (US Debt) that now have less than AAA rating on top of everything. Or how about the cutting Medicare by $500 billion? Did that go toward reform and putting the program into the black? No. It went to form an even bigger, unsustainable welfare program, "ObamaCare".
The government could raise taxes by 50% on everybody and Congress would still piss it all away and then need to borrow more on top of all that. The only way to get this fiscal mess turned around is to CUT SPENDING NOW. Not fake cuts that say we'll lower the increases in spending over ten years, real cuts.
The fault lies squarely on both Democrats and RINO Republicans that would not get behind -- and stand behind -- a serious proposal for cutting spending. (Read the S&P commentary and they mention the Paul Ryan budget by name as a plan that could have avoided all this). If RINOs had the testicular fortitude to stand up to Obama and Reid, and if Obama, Pelosi and Reid themselves weren't so irresponsible in their spending the last two and a half years, this wouldn't have happened.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
So it was "Plan See I told you so"
So it wasn't Plan A, or Plan B. It was Plan "See I told you so". (Wish I could take credit for that, but that's the intellectual property of Rush, and his book by the similar name).
Anyway, as I've already gone through in the last post, that "Boehner plan" was just the vehicle for the Senate watering down of everything, and here we are, with that "great and wonderful" deal passed and the stock market is tanking by 250 plus points. Must be great, eh?
Just more of the same. No cuts this year, no cuts next year, and promises to cut miniscule amount starting in 2013 that will never materialize. Except maybe the military gutting part. The left wing radicals love gutting the military.
And of course we have the Ministry of Truth (otherwise known as the media such as the NY Times and Washington Post) running around saying this was a victory for the TEA party and fiscal conservatives while at the same time using the same inflammatory rhetoric like calling the fiscally sane among us terrorists and hostage takers showing their outrage that the hard left wasn't able to get even MORE tax increases on top of the massive Obamacare taxes slated to begin soon enough to run business even further into the ground. Meanwhile the EPA and other agencies are busy spitting out regulation after regulation shutting down power plants and coal mines and many other businesses under the radar.
The only sane people in this country left are those that are aligned with groups like the TEA party for spending cuts, baseline budgeting reform, and deregulation. While it's true that there's tens of millions of people already on the team, it's unfortunate that there's not nearly enough representation in Congress to reflect this large number of people. I just hope the weak and feckless leadership of the Republican party hasn't undermined the momentum of the movement. But from what I've seen, anger is dwarfing apathy, and there's going to be a lot of Republicans paying a huge price in the next Congressional elections. And I'll be just one of many of those people working to those ends.
Anyway, as I've already gone through in the last post, that "Boehner plan" was just the vehicle for the Senate watering down of everything, and here we are, with that "great and wonderful" deal passed and the stock market is tanking by 250 plus points. Must be great, eh?
Just more of the same. No cuts this year, no cuts next year, and promises to cut miniscule amount starting in 2013 that will never materialize. Except maybe the military gutting part. The left wing radicals love gutting the military.
And of course we have the Ministry of Truth (otherwise known as the media such as the NY Times and Washington Post) running around saying this was a victory for the TEA party and fiscal conservatives while at the same time using the same inflammatory rhetoric like calling the fiscally sane among us terrorists and hostage takers showing their outrage that the hard left wasn't able to get even MORE tax increases on top of the massive Obamacare taxes slated to begin soon enough to run business even further into the ground. Meanwhile the EPA and other agencies are busy spitting out regulation after regulation shutting down power plants and coal mines and many other businesses under the radar.
The only sane people in this country left are those that are aligned with groups like the TEA party for spending cuts, baseline budgeting reform, and deregulation. While it's true that there's tens of millions of people already on the team, it's unfortunate that there's not nearly enough representation in Congress to reflect this large number of people. I just hope the weak and feckless leadership of the Republican party hasn't undermined the momentum of the movement. But from what I've seen, anger is dwarfing apathy, and there's going to be a lot of Republicans paying a huge price in the next Congressional elections. And I'll be just one of many of those people working to those ends.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
John Boehner: Architect of the Death of the Republican Party
John Boehner: Architect of the Death of the Republican Party
The RINOs and the clueless are doing their rounds today trying to shore up support for Speaker of the House John Boehner's "plan" to raise the debt ceiling and "cut spending". Yet it cuts nothing.
It suggests how much to cut, and then leaves it up to selected members of Congress to come up with specific proposals. The initial estimates by the Congressional Budget Office were $1B would be cut next year. That's right. One billion.
And we're supposed to get behind this.
Even better, Obama and Democratic Senate leader already announced it as "dead on arrival".
This is what happens when you continuously play the game of the hard core Left and buckle to them every time instead of standing your ground and making them come to you.
The House passed a budget for 2012. They passed a solution to the current predicament the Democratic Congress of 2008-2010 and this President have gotten us into at light speed compared to previous Presidents and Congresses. Neither have even seen the light of day in the Senate for debate, let alone a vote. Yet Republicans are expected to keep coming up with legislation while Democrats sit there and shoot down everything.
Yet instead of fighting for what was passed and making the Democrats sweat a little, Boehner keeps obliging them.
This weak-kneed unprincipled stance on things -- particularly on spending -- is what sent the Republicans to the wilderness for four years starting with the elections of 2006. 2010 saw them regain the House due to rallying of the conservatives and others against the epic spending levels of the previous Congress and Democrats. Now we are seeing little to no resistance and changing things. And people are angry at this. Others are getting demoralized. Cut, Cap, Balance was a plan that leveraged the strengths of the Republican negotiating position while ensuring that there would at least be a balanced budget amendment sent out to the States if the President wanted his increase in the debt ceiling. But Boehner and McConnell have refused to stand ground on it for even a few days and attempting to force a debate and vote in the Senate before buckling. Way to go, Boehner/McConnell.
Welcome to the death of the Republican party.
The RINOs and the clueless are doing their rounds today trying to shore up support for Speaker of the House John Boehner's "plan" to raise the debt ceiling and "cut spending". Yet it cuts nothing.
It suggests how much to cut, and then leaves it up to selected members of Congress to come up with specific proposals. The initial estimates by the Congressional Budget Office were $1B would be cut next year. That's right. One billion.
And we're supposed to get behind this.
Even better, Obama and Democratic Senate leader already announced it as "dead on arrival".
This is what happens when you continuously play the game of the hard core Left and buckle to them every time instead of standing your ground and making them come to you.
The House passed a budget for 2012. They passed a solution to the current predicament the Democratic Congress of 2008-2010 and this President have gotten us into at light speed compared to previous Presidents and Congresses. Neither have even seen the light of day in the Senate for debate, let alone a vote. Yet Republicans are expected to keep coming up with legislation while Democrats sit there and shoot down everything.
Yet instead of fighting for what was passed and making the Democrats sweat a little, Boehner keeps obliging them.
This weak-kneed unprincipled stance on things -- particularly on spending -- is what sent the Republicans to the wilderness for four years starting with the elections of 2006. 2010 saw them regain the House due to rallying of the conservatives and others against the epic spending levels of the previous Congress and Democrats. Now we are seeing little to no resistance and changing things. And people are angry at this. Others are getting demoralized. Cut, Cap, Balance was a plan that leveraged the strengths of the Republican negotiating position while ensuring that there would at least be a balanced budget amendment sent out to the States if the President wanted his increase in the debt ceiling. But Boehner and McConnell have refused to stand ground on it for even a few days and attempting to force a debate and vote in the Senate before buckling. Way to go, Boehner/McConnell.
Welcome to the death of the Republican party.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tyrannical Federal Government Kicks Down Doors
So now we find out that the Department of Education is authorized to have armed agents and the ability to kick down your door if you're suspected of some kind of shady dealings with school loans. What about if you're way behind on your loans? Can they kick down your door then too? Where does this stop?
The main problem appears to be the Homeland Security Act of 2002 that gave any agency with an OIG the power to carry weapons and conduct these actions. This is very troubling as it's supposed to be the Department of Justice that performs law enforcement -- they're the ones trained properly and act as professionally as can be expected under dire circumstances like raiding a home. But the question is, who makes the decision to give the go ahead for such raids in the first place? An agency like the DoE executing these actions is like the local high school principal kicking down your door with a dozen armed school administrators because your child has been playing hookey or stealing other children's lunch money. It'd be ridiculous if it wasn't so dire and scary for what it represents to a supposed free society.
Congress has given away so much power to the executive branch that Congress has nearly become a subservient branch instead of an equal one with the ability to check the other two which are running amok these days. Separation of powers between the three equal branches was supposed to prevent things like this. But Congress, having created countless agencies like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with Legislative power (issuing regulations), Executive power (enforcement), and Judicial power (adjudicating objections of the exercising of the other two powers), has us living under a tyranny in many aspects due to the unchecked power of these unelected bureaucrats. And it continues non stop with bills like The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") that create boards of bureaucrats with power over what treatment you get or the Department of HHS grabbing the power to issues waivers to "ObamaCare" that it wasn't even granted in the legislation. These agencies actions of unconstitutional, and many of the agencies are unconstitutional.
This is why, more than ever, conservatives need the reins of power for many election cycles to reverse all this damage that statist "liberals" in both parties have caused. Congress needs to pass legislation destroying many of these agencies, and reclaiming powers that were granted either explicitly or implicitly through vague language from the ones that remain intact. And that's just the start, people.
The main problem appears to be the Homeland Security Act of 2002 that gave any agency with an OIG the power to carry weapons and conduct these actions. This is very troubling as it's supposed to be the Department of Justice that performs law enforcement -- they're the ones trained properly and act as professionally as can be expected under dire circumstances like raiding a home. But the question is, who makes the decision to give the go ahead for such raids in the first place? An agency like the DoE executing these actions is like the local high school principal kicking down your door with a dozen armed school administrators because your child has been playing hookey or stealing other children's lunch money. It'd be ridiculous if it wasn't so dire and scary for what it represents to a supposed free society.
Congress has given away so much power to the executive branch that Congress has nearly become a subservient branch instead of an equal one with the ability to check the other two which are running amok these days. Separation of powers between the three equal branches was supposed to prevent things like this. But Congress, having created countless agencies like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with Legislative power (issuing regulations), Executive power (enforcement), and Judicial power (adjudicating objections of the exercising of the other two powers), has us living under a tyranny in many aspects due to the unchecked power of these unelected bureaucrats. And it continues non stop with bills like The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") that create boards of bureaucrats with power over what treatment you get or the Department of HHS grabbing the power to issues waivers to "ObamaCare" that it wasn't even granted in the legislation. These agencies actions of unconstitutional, and many of the agencies are unconstitutional.
This is why, more than ever, conservatives need the reins of power for many election cycles to reverse all this damage that statist "liberals" in both parties have caused. Congress needs to pass legislation destroying many of these agencies, and reclaiming powers that were granted either explicitly or implicitly through vague language from the ones that remain intact. And that's just the start, people.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
More 2012 News
It looks like Sarah Palin is finally getting ready to enter the 2012 Republican Primary race. News is out now that she contracted with conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon to produce a series of videos exposing all accomplishments and successes of her time in office as Alaska governor. The statist press that continually trashes her on a regular basis has never really quite gotten around to that ever, and would have people believe she sat around and did nothing for two and a half years other than running with McCain for the VP nomination in 2008.
Finally Palin will get a chance to tell her side of the story to a wider audience than she reached even with her best-selling books at a time when the race for the nomination is finally beginning to get started. Without the interruptions and trashing. With the entrance of Palin, and the anticipated entrance of Bachmann, that brings the race up to four excellent conservative choices, which is a far cry from the lonely one that 2008 saw in Fred Thompson.
The poll referenced in the previous post on political momentum showed Palin with almost universal name recognition but with only slightly over average positive momentum. Once she starts actively campaigning and she's out there in her own words more often, she will see that positive rating rise, as a big factor in her languishing where she is: the belief that she wasn't going to run.
Finally Palin will get a chance to tell her side of the story to a wider audience than she reached even with her best-selling books at a time when the race for the nomination is finally beginning to get started. Without the interruptions and trashing. With the entrance of Palin, and the anticipated entrance of Bachmann, that brings the race up to four excellent conservative choices, which is a far cry from the lonely one that 2008 saw in Fred Thompson.
The poll referenced in the previous post on political momentum showed Palin with almost universal name recognition but with only slightly over average positive momentum. Once she starts actively campaigning and she's out there in her own words more often, she will see that positive rating rise, as a big factor in her languishing where she is: the belief that she wasn't going to run.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
2012 Republican Nomination News
Even with all the hype about Obama being unbeatable and polls saying this, 42% of people think he doesn't deserve re-election. It's just that people are de-spirited and don't think there's anyone worth voting for, just like 2008. However these people haven't met Herman Cain yet. The man has the charisma of an Obama with the true American substance to back it up. For those of you in the US that still have not gotten to know who Mr. Cain is, I would suggest you do.
According to recent polls, Cain is fast gaining the most momentum toward the nomination. Yes, it's early yet, but no matter what happens, it's a story unto itself that people are signing on in droves to a business friendly candidate that hasn't been polluted by years in politics and ready to support him as a presidential candidate. From winning the first GOP debate a few weeks ago to surging ahead of even people still pining for the liberal Christie, it looks good for Cain.
Besides, why should people be so de-spirited they don't think a guy that doesn't even know what year it is can't be defeated?
http://www.hermancainissues.com
http://arealleader.com
http://hermancain.com
Using these sites you can find out more about the man from the man and his staff.
According to recent polls, Cain is fast gaining the most momentum toward the nomination. Yes, it's early yet, but no matter what happens, it's a story unto itself that people are signing on in droves to a business friendly candidate that hasn't been polluted by years in politics and ready to support him as a presidential candidate. From winning the first GOP debate a few weeks ago to surging ahead of even people still pining for the liberal Christie, it looks good for Cain.
Besides, why should people be so de-spirited they don't think a guy that doesn't even know what year it is can't be defeated?
http://www.hermancainissues.com
http://arealleader.com
http://hermancain.com
Using these sites you can find out more about the man from the man and his staff.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Separation of Church and State Doesn't Exist
"Separation of church and state" doesn't exist in the United States. At least not the way the progressive propaganda that has been fed to you tells you. The United States Constitution guarantees you freedom of religion imposed upon you by government. It does NOT guarantee you freedom FROM exposure to religion, religious objects, songs or otherwise. Even in public places.
The left-wing idea of separation of church and state comes from the bastardization of Jefferson's writing by left-wing Supreme Court activist Hugo Black. Black just "coincidentally" was the son of a klan member who hated Catholics, among others. Like most left-wing activists, Black took something, twisted it, and turned it into something to suit his own beliefs and purposes i.e. his learned hatred of Catholicism which then enveloped all of Christianity and then all religion. The ultimate purpose is to snuff out religion entirely and replace the state i.e. government, as the altar everyone prays to.
The moral of the story: learn where a "doctrine" comes from and the purposes behind it before you embrace it.
This comes to you from a non-religious person because it's relevant to those who profess to not believe and even to those that are not in the United States. Tyrants and governments attempt to separate the people from religion in an attempt to create a void in their lives and then swoop in and have government fill that role as the power to be. It is why so many non-free societies place restrictions if not outright bans upon religion. You shall live to serve the state -- nobody else -- not even a Higher Power.
Back in the United States, our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, references our rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness that are given to us not by government or man, but by the Creator. This is crucial. Since these rights are God given, they cannot be taken from you by a mere mortal government. The continuous attempts to separate people from their religion makes this argument moot, and therefore opens up the possibility of government claiming these rights null and void. Think about that for awhile before you go out campaigning against religion next time.
A MUCH more detailed history can be found here:
The Myth of Separation of Church and State
The left-wing idea of separation of church and state comes from the bastardization of Jefferson's writing by left-wing Supreme Court activist Hugo Black. Black just "coincidentally" was the son of a klan member who hated Catholics, among others. Like most left-wing activists, Black took something, twisted it, and turned it into something to suit his own beliefs and purposes i.e. his learned hatred of Catholicism which then enveloped all of Christianity and then all religion. The ultimate purpose is to snuff out religion entirely and replace the state i.e. government, as the altar everyone prays to.
The moral of the story: learn where a "doctrine" comes from and the purposes behind it before you embrace it.
This comes to you from a non-religious person because it's relevant to those who profess to not believe and even to those that are not in the United States. Tyrants and governments attempt to separate the people from religion in an attempt to create a void in their lives and then swoop in and have government fill that role as the power to be. It is why so many non-free societies place restrictions if not outright bans upon religion. You shall live to serve the state -- nobody else -- not even a Higher Power.
Back in the United States, our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, references our rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness that are given to us not by government or man, but by the Creator. This is crucial. Since these rights are God given, they cannot be taken from you by a mere mortal government. The continuous attempts to separate people from their religion makes this argument moot, and therefore opens up the possibility of government claiming these rights null and void. Think about that for awhile before you go out campaigning against religion next time.
A MUCH more detailed history can be found here:
The Myth of Separation of Church and State
Monday, May 2, 2011
Why the LA Times is a Joke
Continuing on in my "Why the Liberal Rags are a Joke" series, today we'll examine a posted in the LA Times blog section by a "veteran columnist" by the name of Andrew Malcolm.
Andrew Malcolm has obviously never heard of sarcasm before and is unable to identify it when it is slapping him right in the face. He wants to take a sarcasm laced segment by Rush Limbaugh on Obama getting all the credit for the successful termination of Bin Laden, and pretend it was serious in what I must believe an attempt to show how wrong Limbaugh has been about Obama all this time. Pretty hilarious that these people live in such La-la land reality to them is beyond their comprehension.
The link: here.
And just because this is such an easy example of why the LA Times is a joke and will probably disappear, I've saved the text:
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Rush Limbaugh began his radio show Monday morning praising President Obama for his leadership in the demise of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
In his nationally syndicated radio show, Limbaugh who has been one of Obama's fiercest critics, gave the commander-in-chief all the glory in the successful mission that ended the life of Public Enemy No. 1.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama," Limbaugh said. "President Obama has done something extremely effective and when he does, this needs to be pointed out. President Obama has continued the Bush policies of keeping a military presence in the Middle East. He did not scrub the mission to get Bin Laden. In fact, it may be that President Obama single-handedly came up with the technique in order to pull this off."
Limbaugh, who has recently criticized the first lady's figure, said in 2009 that he hopes Mr. Obama fails, and complained last year about Americans donating to the post-earthquake humanitarian relief in Haiti, continued about Bin Laden: "You see the military wanted to go in there and bomb. They always do. They wanted to go in there and drop missiles and launch bombs. A number of totally destructive techniques here. But President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the Special Forces. No one else thought of that. President Obama. Not a single intelligence adviser, not a single national security adviser, not a single military adviser came up with the idea of using SEAL Team 6 or any Special Forces," Limbaugh said, with what some are saying is a slight tinge of sarcasm in his delivery.
"Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth," Limbaugh continued, "but President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death ... it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden," the radio host said, concluding, "Thank God for President Obama."
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Andrew Malcolm has obviously never heard of sarcasm before and is unable to identify it when it is slapping him right in the face. He wants to take a sarcasm laced segment by Rush Limbaugh on Obama getting all the credit for the successful termination of Bin Laden, and pretend it was serious in what I must believe an attempt to show how wrong Limbaugh has been about Obama all this time. Pretty hilarious that these people live in such La-la land reality to them is beyond their comprehension.
The link: here.
And just because this is such an easy example of why the LA Times is a joke and will probably disappear, I've saved the text:
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Rush Limbaugh began his radio show Monday morning praising President Obama for his leadership in the demise of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
In his nationally syndicated radio show, Limbaugh who has been one of Obama's fiercest critics, gave the commander-in-chief all the glory in the successful mission that ended the life of Public Enemy No. 1.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama," Limbaugh said. "President Obama has done something extremely effective and when he does, this needs to be pointed out. President Obama has continued the Bush policies of keeping a military presence in the Middle East. He did not scrub the mission to get Bin Laden. In fact, it may be that President Obama single-handedly came up with the technique in order to pull this off."
Limbaugh, who has recently criticized the first lady's figure, said in 2009 that he hopes Mr. Obama fails, and complained last year about Americans donating to the post-earthquake humanitarian relief in Haiti, continued about Bin Laden: "You see the military wanted to go in there and bomb. They always do. They wanted to go in there and drop missiles and launch bombs. A number of totally destructive techniques here. But President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the Special Forces. No one else thought of that. President Obama. Not a single intelligence adviser, not a single national security adviser, not a single military adviser came up with the idea of using SEAL Team 6 or any Special Forces," Limbaugh said, with what some are saying is a slight tinge of sarcasm in his delivery.
"Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth," Limbaugh continued, "but President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death ... it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden," the radio host said, concluding, "Thank God for President Obama."
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Bin Laden is Dead
While the civilized among us will never celebrate the taking of life, unlike the savages that danced in the streets after the deaths of those 2000 people on September 11, 2001; we do recognize that justice has been served for the brutal murder of those people.
After nearly ten years, the tireless work of the intelligence community both in the US and other nations, and the US armed forces has finally brought a mass murderer to justice. Take note other would be terrorist masterminds: we will find you in the end.
After nearly ten years, the tireless work of the intelligence community both in the US and other nations, and the US armed forces has finally brought a mass murderer to justice. Take note other would be terrorist masterminds: we will find you in the end.
Friday, April 29, 2011
High Oil Prices and the Parrots Squawking Loudly Again
So where ever I go lately I hear the politicians and media squawking. "Record profits, record profits! *squawk!"
Then, like the Marxists they are, they will go on to tell you how companies like Exxon-Mobile are making "obscene profits" due to the high prices of oil and maybe, just maybe they ought to pay some kind of extra tax as punishment for all the pain they're supposedly causing us.
So, let me get this straight. I should be mad at a company that has a big hand in making sure that when I go to that gas station, there's actually gas there? The fact that they still manage to do this, even with all the interference from government regulations and the wacko environmentalists to drilling anywhere?
Yes, they go on with their propaganda in an attempt to get everyone angry. Except they don't tell you how much money Exxon-Mobile is really making on a gallon of gasoline. Who wants to guess?
Two cents.
Yes, you read that right. Two cents per gallon. To put this in perspective, ask yourself, just how much does government profit per gallon of gas? It varies from state to state, with a bunch of states over 60 cents per gallon, but let me tell you right off: in every state, it's a hell of a lot more than 2 cents per gallon. The federal government alone confiscates 18.4 cents per gallon. And what exactly did they do to earn that 18.4 cents per gallon? Did they drill the well? Did they transport the oil to the refinery? Did they refine it? Did they transport it to your neighborhood filling station so it's there whenever you want it? Of course not. They just take their cut, like the mafia. So the federal government makes nine times more on a gallon of gasoline than Exxon-Mobile does. But we're supposed to get angry at the oil companies, right?
Oh, I can hear people screaming. "They use that money for the highways and roads!"
Wrong. That money doesn't go into some special fund for highways or roads. It goes into the general Treasury just like every other tax they come up with. The federal gas tax could be $10 a gallon, and they'd still piss all that money away on stupid social experiment programs like they do with all the other tax money. And still have to borrow and print more money on top of that.
Gasoline prices aren't high because you're getting ripped off by Exxon-Mobile, or because some mythical "speculator" is taking your money, gasoline prices are high because our currency is going to hell and supply is being choked off by things like Obama's oil drilling moratorium and wacko environmentalists in the EPA blocking drilling in places where there's actually oil.
Two cents per gallon is awfully close to zero cents per gallon. If that drops much lower the next time you go to fill up your car, there just might not be any gas for you to put in your car. At ANY price.
Then, like the Marxists they are, they will go on to tell you how companies like Exxon-Mobile are making "obscene profits" due to the high prices of oil and maybe, just maybe they ought to pay some kind of extra tax as punishment for all the pain they're supposedly causing us.
So, let me get this straight. I should be mad at a company that has a big hand in making sure that when I go to that gas station, there's actually gas there? The fact that they still manage to do this, even with all the interference from government regulations and the wacko environmentalists to drilling anywhere?
Yes, they go on with their propaganda in an attempt to get everyone angry. Except they don't tell you how much money Exxon-Mobile is really making on a gallon of gasoline. Who wants to guess?
Two cents.
Yes, you read that right. Two cents per gallon. To put this in perspective, ask yourself, just how much does government profit per gallon of gas? It varies from state to state, with a bunch of states over 60 cents per gallon, but let me tell you right off: in every state, it's a hell of a lot more than 2 cents per gallon. The federal government alone confiscates 18.4 cents per gallon. And what exactly did they do to earn that 18.4 cents per gallon? Did they drill the well? Did they transport the oil to the refinery? Did they refine it? Did they transport it to your neighborhood filling station so it's there whenever you want it? Of course not. They just take their cut, like the mafia. So the federal government makes nine times more on a gallon of gasoline than Exxon-Mobile does. But we're supposed to get angry at the oil companies, right?
Oh, I can hear people screaming. "They use that money for the highways and roads!"
Wrong. That money doesn't go into some special fund for highways or roads. It goes into the general Treasury just like every other tax they come up with. The federal gas tax could be $10 a gallon, and they'd still piss all that money away on stupid social experiment programs like they do with all the other tax money. And still have to borrow and print more money on top of that.
Gasoline prices aren't high because you're getting ripped off by Exxon-Mobile, or because some mythical "speculator" is taking your money, gasoline prices are high because our currency is going to hell and supply is being choked off by things like Obama's oil drilling moratorium and wacko environmentalists in the EPA blocking drilling in places where there's actually oil.
Two cents per gallon is awfully close to zero cents per gallon. If that drops much lower the next time you go to fill up your car, there just might not be any gas for you to put in your car. At ANY price.
US Dollar Continues to Take a Dive
The dollar has hit yet another low of late. As of this writing, $1 is now worth:
0.67 Euros
0.95 Canadian dollars
0.91 Australian dollars
...
I could go on, but I won't. Suffice it to say that the US dollar is now worth the least of the major currencies. Even Switzerland's currency is worth more than the dollar now. "So what?" I hear you asking. "Why should I care? It doesn't affect me."
Wrong.
Have you noticed how those pesky gas prices just keep going up? Well a big part of that is due to the drop in the value of the dollar. (The rest can be laid at the feet of supply issues due to radical environmentalist people like Obama who block production at every step) . You see, oil is priced in dollars on the world market, and when the value of the dollar goes down, the price of oil (or anything else, for that matter) goes up. So the value of our currency dropping does affect you, me, and everybody else.
So, what then is causing this devaluation you may wonder. What else? The federal government. People do not want to hold dollar denominated assets because the spendaholics won't stop spending, and the federal reserve won't stop printing money. The more they print, the more dollars there are, the more worthless they become.
The solution? Stop spending. Stop printing worthless paper. Stop smothering energy production. Stop taxing and regulating the bejeezus out of people who produce products and services so the economy can recover for real. Then interest rates will rise, and not only will you actually get a better return on any savings you have, people will want to have dollar denominated assets again because they'll be getting a return on owning said assets instead of the next to 0% offered now.
It's all very simple, it's been proven, it's economics 101. Capitalism works, it's what produced the greatest nation on the face of the earth that produced the most goods and services for the most people. But somewhere along the line, we've gotten a bunch of people that have been infused by Marxist propaganda in positions of power and instead they do the opposite of what's needed to fix all this. They follow a Marxist-socialist ideology that punishes production, and success. It's just one big Death Spiral and we're all going down the drain with it.
0.67 Euros
0.95 Canadian dollars
0.91 Australian dollars
...
I could go on, but I won't. Suffice it to say that the US dollar is now worth the least of the major currencies. Even Switzerland's currency is worth more than the dollar now. "So what?" I hear you asking. "Why should I care? It doesn't affect me."
Wrong.
Have you noticed how those pesky gas prices just keep going up? Well a big part of that is due to the drop in the value of the dollar. (The rest can be laid at the feet of supply issues due to radical environmentalist people like Obama who block production at every step) . You see, oil is priced in dollars on the world market, and when the value of the dollar goes down, the price of oil (or anything else, for that matter) goes up. So the value of our currency dropping does affect you, me, and everybody else.
So, what then is causing this devaluation you may wonder. What else? The federal government. People do not want to hold dollar denominated assets because the spendaholics won't stop spending, and the federal reserve won't stop printing money. The more they print, the more dollars there are, the more worthless they become.
The solution? Stop spending. Stop printing worthless paper. Stop smothering energy production. Stop taxing and regulating the bejeezus out of people who produce products and services so the economy can recover for real. Then interest rates will rise, and not only will you actually get a better return on any savings you have, people will want to have dollar denominated assets again because they'll be getting a return on owning said assets instead of the next to 0% offered now.
It's all very simple, it's been proven, it's economics 101. Capitalism works, it's what produced the greatest nation on the face of the earth that produced the most goods and services for the most people. But somewhere along the line, we've gotten a bunch of people that have been infused by Marxist propaganda in positions of power and instead they do the opposite of what's needed to fix all this. They follow a Marxist-socialist ideology that punishes production, and success. It's just one big Death Spiral and we're all going down the drain with it.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
2011 Budget Passes House; America Loses Again
After seven months of being delinquent, today the House of Representatives finally passed the 2011 Budget. Unfortunately, it's a loser for the nation as no real cuts were made upon examination of the final legislation. The final result: about $350 million in cuts. Yes, that's right. Million. If this was a state budget, that might be a meaningful cut. However we're speaking of the over bloated federal government budget that totals around $3.8 TRILLION dollars. This is so meaningless it's pointless to calculate the percentage as it's so far under 1% it's laughable. Include the fact that that "one time" stimulus spending has been built into the budget "permanently", it's inexcusable that any fiscally sane person would vote for this.
Conclusion: Only 59 Republican incumbents deserve to be re-elected in 2012 in the House.
In fact, they're the only ones that deserve to be re-elected in the entire body. All the Democrats that voted against the bill did the "right" thing for the wrong reasons -- they believed it actually cut TOO MUCH.
Boehner doesn't deserve to be in the House of Representatives, let alone be Speaker. He threw away his biggest political weapon in the negotiations (a government furlough of non-essential employees and services) before the negotiations even started. He also low-balled the original cuts at about 2.6% of the $3.8T budget, then quickly got whittled down from there. Anyone who has ever purchased a car knows negotiating tactics better than the current Speaker of the House.
So the result: another trillion plus dollar deficit, which can't even be explained as being put on a credit card -- because a large chunk of this "financing" is coming from printing money, and purchasing our own debt through Federal Reserve shenanigans since nobody else will buy it anymore due to the reckless irresponsible spending that has been occurring the last few years 2007-2010, and now by virtue of incompetent and spineless politicians in the House, 2011.
Conclusion: Only 59 Republican incumbents deserve to be re-elected in 2012 in the House.
In fact, they're the only ones that deserve to be re-elected in the entire body. All the Democrats that voted against the bill did the "right" thing for the wrong reasons -- they believed it actually cut TOO MUCH.
Boehner doesn't deserve to be in the House of Representatives, let alone be Speaker. He threw away his biggest political weapon in the negotiations (a government furlough of non-essential employees and services) before the negotiations even started. He also low-balled the original cuts at about 2.6% of the $3.8T budget, then quickly got whittled down from there. Anyone who has ever purchased a car knows negotiating tactics better than the current Speaker of the House.
So the result: another trillion plus dollar deficit, which can't even be explained as being put on a credit card -- because a large chunk of this "financing" is coming from printing money, and purchasing our own debt through Federal Reserve shenanigans since nobody else will buy it anymore due to the reckless irresponsible spending that has been occurring the last few years 2007-2010, and now by virtue of incompetent and spineless politicians in the House, 2011.
Friday, April 1, 2011
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution has been proposed, and it's a good one. All 47 Republicans in the Senate have signed on to support a Constitutional amendment that would fix the financial problems in the country from getting any worse -- overnight.
The biggest aspect of the amendment states that the federal government can spend only 18% of the nation's GDP unless a declaration of war has been made. This by itself is huge in that it would immediately reduce government spending from the outrageous rate of 25% of GDP that it is now under Obama, to 18% .. lower than it was during the Bush Administration.
Other aspects of the amendment include needing super majorities of Congress to raise taxes and the debt limit, requiring Congress to balance the budget and the President to submit a balanced budget. This amendment will finally force the spendaholics to put a finite amount of money where it is needed most -- prioritize in other words -- just like we have to do in the real world. And since there's a cap on spending, statist "liberals" will not be able to balance the budget by increasing taxes and spending at the same time -- they can only spend a set amount of money per fiscal year.
It's nice to see the new Senators like Mike Lee and Rand Paul getting a coherent solution put together and supported. Of course this is a long way from being approved -- super majorities of the Senate and House have to approve the amendment before it is sent out to be ratified by the States. The good news however is, since so many State Legislatures were taken over by Republicans in the 2010 race, if the amendment can get out of Congress then it is almost assuredly going to be ratified.
Still a big if -- but it's just the beginning of gathering support for this. If statist "liberals" refuse to go along -- which they undoubtedly will -- they will have to be exposed and further voted out until this thing is passed. This has to be made the top priority and campaign issue alongside the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This political one-two punch to the statist "liberals" will be the combination to knock them out of power and get the financial health of this nation turned around in short order.
The biggest aspect of the amendment states that the federal government can spend only 18% of the nation's GDP unless a declaration of war has been made. This by itself is huge in that it would immediately reduce government spending from the outrageous rate of 25% of GDP that it is now under Obama, to 18% .. lower than it was during the Bush Administration.
Other aspects of the amendment include needing super majorities of Congress to raise taxes and the debt limit, requiring Congress to balance the budget and the President to submit a balanced budget. This amendment will finally force the spendaholics to put a finite amount of money where it is needed most -- prioritize in other words -- just like we have to do in the real world. And since there's a cap on spending, statist "liberals" will not be able to balance the budget by increasing taxes and spending at the same time -- they can only spend a set amount of money per fiscal year.
It's nice to see the new Senators like Mike Lee and Rand Paul getting a coherent solution put together and supported. Of course this is a long way from being approved -- super majorities of the Senate and House have to approve the amendment before it is sent out to be ratified by the States. The good news however is, since so many State Legislatures were taken over by Republicans in the 2010 race, if the amendment can get out of Congress then it is almost assuredly going to be ratified.
Still a big if -- but it's just the beginning of gathering support for this. If statist "liberals" refuse to go along -- which they undoubtedly will -- they will have to be exposed and further voted out until this thing is passed. This has to be made the top priority and campaign issue alongside the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This political one-two punch to the statist "liberals" will be the combination to knock them out of power and get the financial health of this nation turned around in short order.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Why the RNC is a failure
Today I got a "poll" in the mail from the Republican National Committee asking who I would prefer as presidential nomination for 2012 from their selected individuals. The reason I put poll in quotes is that it really is a donation seeking mailer.
Mostly the poll comes down to "would you vote for someone associated with the TEA party movement or no?"
Even after the landslide in November they have to ask whether people are on board with slashing spending to the bone and not raising taxes.
Add to this the fact that today is the 7th of March and they want the poll (and money) sent back by the 11th. Well, in case you haven't noticed guys, economic times are still bad, and people budget their money ahead a lot further than four days. Even if I was going to send money to the RNC (which I wouldn't), you better start giving people more than four days to come up with the $25 minimum you're begging for. Whoever you have doing this operation needs to be fired, along with a bunch of other idiots you have over there.
Intelligent people like me are going to give directly to candidates of their choosing, or to organizations like Senator Demint's Senate Conservatives Fund. Organizations that actually understand what people want, and it isn't more liberal RINO Republicans that the RNC has always supported, including in the 2010 elections.
Mostly the poll comes down to "would you vote for someone associated with the TEA party movement or no?"
Even after the landslide in November they have to ask whether people are on board with slashing spending to the bone and not raising taxes.
Add to this the fact that today is the 7th of March and they want the poll (and money) sent back by the 11th. Well, in case you haven't noticed guys, economic times are still bad, and people budget their money ahead a lot further than four days. Even if I was going to send money to the RNC (which I wouldn't), you better start giving people more than four days to come up with the $25 minimum you're begging for. Whoever you have doing this operation needs to be fired, along with a bunch of other idiots you have over there.
Intelligent people like me are going to give directly to candidates of their choosing, or to organizations like Senator Demint's Senate Conservatives Fund. Organizations that actually understand what people want, and it isn't more liberal RINO Republicans that the RNC has always supported, including in the 2010 elections.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Why the Washington Post is a joke
The headline House approves dramatic cuts in federal spending in 235-189 vote
This all about $60 billion in cuts.
Dramatic is right. Dramatically underwhelming. If you recall we are talking about a $1.6 TRILLION dollar deficit and a $3.6 TRILLION dollar budget. Even prorated, we're talking less than $110 billion in cuts. Let's do the math, shall we? Yes, that's less than 7% of the deficit, and about 3% of the entire budget. And we won't even divide by the $110 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities of SS, Medicare, and drug plan because the % is going to hundredths of 1%. Wow, yes that's dramatic. A dramatic joke, and calling it dramatic seriously is why the WaPo, NYT and most other liberal rags are considered a joke by people that actually know what's going on.
But then, some big spending, big government clown will propose say, $52 billion in spending on a high speed rail project less than 5% of people will use and call that a great investment, and not much money at all. You can't have it both ways you hypocrites.
Dramatic indeed.
This all about $60 billion in cuts.
Dramatic is right. Dramatically underwhelming. If you recall we are talking about a $1.6 TRILLION dollar deficit and a $3.6 TRILLION dollar budget. Even prorated, we're talking less than $110 billion in cuts. Let's do the math, shall we? Yes, that's less than 7% of the deficit, and about 3% of the entire budget. And we won't even divide by the $110 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities of SS, Medicare, and drug plan because the % is going to hundredths of 1%. Wow, yes that's dramatic. A dramatic joke, and calling it dramatic seriously is why the WaPo, NYT and most other liberal rags are considered a joke by people that actually know what's going on.
But then, some big spending, big government clown will propose say, $52 billion in spending on a high speed rail project less than 5% of people will use and call that a great investment, and not much money at all. You can't have it both ways you hypocrites.
Dramatic indeed.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Even Obama knows it's all unsustainable
..and yet they continue to offer up the horrendous spending that is going to bankrupt us. Listen to little Timmy "the tax cheat" Geithner say it out loud to Senator Jeff Sessions. I'll leave the rest of the background to be filled in by the great Mark R. Levin in the two minute clip.
Friday, February 18, 2011
The ramblings of the entitlement-minded
By now, everyone has heard of what's going on in Wisconsin. It really started here when the governor of New Jersey put is foot down -- right on the feet of the NJEA teachers' union. So this was the comment of one "teacher"
"If your delighted with NFL football played by substitute players wait untill the schools are taken over by 'substitue teachers".
As a teacher where should I go for my best chance of obtaing day labor to teach in the schools? McDonnald's, Denneys, Waffle House or?
Should the students learn Spanish as the migrant labor is brought over to teach and lower the cost of teaching?
Will the National Guard be allowed to carry their weapons into the schools if they are assigned to teach?"
Wow. I tell you what. Isn't that what you want teaching your child? My response was simple:
"And also it's "you're" not your. Between your attitude and your grammar yes, you can go work at McDonald's. We don't need you teaching our children. Responsible teachers understand it's long past time they start contributing to their own well being instead of expecting others to do it for them. The gravy train is coming to an end, buddy. You either are going to get paid what what your bosses, the taxpayers, wants to pay you or you can find a different job. It's how it works in the real world. Welcome to it."
Keep stirring the pot guys. People are losing their jobs, their homes, their life savings. I am one of millions of those people. And yet we still see our taxes rising due to pigs like that guy. There's more of us than you, and all you're doing is ensuring another large defeat for your buddies in elected office in 2012 and making it even easier for us to clean up this mess you all have caused through your greed, and due to us that were too busy with our own lives to notice what you were doing. We are awake and paying attention now, however.
"If your delighted with NFL football played by substitute players wait untill the schools are taken over by 'substitue teachers".
As a teacher where should I go for my best chance of obtaing day labor to teach in the schools? McDonnald's, Denneys, Waffle House or?
Should the students learn Spanish as the migrant labor is brought over to teach and lower the cost of teaching?
Will the National Guard be allowed to carry their weapons into the schools if they are assigned to teach?"
Wow. I tell you what. Isn't that what you want teaching your child? My response was simple:
"And also it's "you're" not your. Between your attitude and your grammar yes, you can go work at McDonald's. We don't need you teaching our children. Responsible teachers understand it's long past time they start contributing to their own well being instead of expecting others to do it for them. The gravy train is coming to an end, buddy. You either are going to get paid what what your bosses, the taxpayers, wants to pay you or you can find a different job. It's how it works in the real world. Welcome to it."
Keep stirring the pot guys. People are losing their jobs, their homes, their life savings. I am one of millions of those people. And yet we still see our taxes rising due to pigs like that guy. There's more of us than you, and all you're doing is ensuring another large defeat for your buddies in elected office in 2012 and making it even easier for us to clean up this mess you all have caused through your greed, and due to us that were too busy with our own lives to notice what you were doing. We are awake and paying attention now, however.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
On the Public Sector and Taxes
I live in the State of New Jersey. It's well known by the people of this State, and outside of it as well, that we pay the highest property taxes as a percentage of income. And the #2 state is not even remotely close. Before I bother to give out my own anecdotal information, you can look at this map showing the figures from the year 2008 and compare for yourself. And that was 2008 before salaries stopped going up, house values went down, and taxes by golly kept going up. And oddly enough, those assessed property values that they use to determine your tax bill just never comes close to matching up with what you would actually get for your house if you sold it.
The annual cost to keep me from being thrown out on the street and the government taking ownership of the house that I live in is over $4,000. That was well over 10% of my income. (And that was before I lost my full-time job. Now it's even worse). Tack that on to my federal and state income taxes and well, I was working close to 40% of the time for the government just in the form of income and property taxes. That's not counting sales taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes. It's really no wonder I struggle from week to week to make sure all the bills are paid on time. Yet if I were to listen to the Left, all my woes are to be blamed on Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big This, That or the Other. No, my eyes are quite open, I live in reality, not Propagandaville, and the problem is Big Government. Government grows in good times and bad. And even when you say NO to more property taxes as you struggle through losing your job and working three part time jobs, elected officials over turn your vote and raise taxes anyway in deferment to the public sector unions. In good times we're told it's our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. In bad times it's "Oh you're going to lose your house? Suck it up. The government employees are still underpaid." If I only sleep five hours a night instead of six, maybe I can cram another seven hours of work in...
I'm sick of it, and so are many other people. Not just in this state, but other places where hard working, tax paying citizens are being abused as well. People voting with their feet and moving to more tax payer friendly States is resulting in places like NJ and California having a shrinking tax payer base which further results in more people sucking money out of the system than paying in. It's a death spiral all the way down, and now the Leftists want to impose it upon us at a national level as well. Checkmate. No escape.
Now be a good little boy/girl and go work very hard so you can pay your taxes to fund government excess and waste.
The annual cost to keep me from being thrown out on the street and the government taking ownership of the house that I live in is over $4,000. That was well over 10% of my income. (And that was before I lost my full-time job. Now it's even worse). Tack that on to my federal and state income taxes and well, I was working close to 40% of the time for the government just in the form of income and property taxes. That's not counting sales taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes. It's really no wonder I struggle from week to week to make sure all the bills are paid on time. Yet if I were to listen to the Left, all my woes are to be blamed on Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big This, That or the Other. No, my eyes are quite open, I live in reality, not Propagandaville, and the problem is Big Government. Government grows in good times and bad. And even when you say NO to more property taxes as you struggle through losing your job and working three part time jobs, elected officials over turn your vote and raise taxes anyway in deferment to the public sector unions. In good times we're told it's our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. In bad times it's "Oh you're going to lose your house? Suck it up. The government employees are still underpaid." If I only sleep five hours a night instead of six, maybe I can cram another seven hours of work in...
I'm sick of it, and so are many other people. Not just in this state, but other places where hard working, tax paying citizens are being abused as well. People voting with their feet and moving to more tax payer friendly States is resulting in places like NJ and California having a shrinking tax payer base which further results in more people sucking money out of the system than paying in. It's a death spiral all the way down, and now the Leftists want to impose it upon us at a national level as well. Checkmate. No escape.
Now be a good little boy/girl and go work very hard so you can pay your taxes to fund government excess and waste.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The Real Cost of Big Government
Numbers are thrown around all the time from various sources, both credible and otherwise about budgets, taxes, and the cost of entitlement programs. For the most part a single individual cannot even comprehend magnitudes of billions of dollars, and now we're talking trillions. Politicians and self-appointed economic geniuses get bogged down in the trenches of individual government programs, individual lines of the tax code, and individual regulations. We lose sight of the big picture.
If you have children/grandchildren/nieces/nephews or even are a young person yourself, take a good look at them (or in the mirror). Then take a look at what the future tax rates are going to have to be in order to keep the federal government from collapsing under the weight of the debt being created today. Estimates are the lowest income bracket will have to go from 10% to 25% and the middle income brackets will become 66%, up from 25-28%. And that's before you start counting State income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, etc. So in essence, if we continue on this spending binge, in the very near future, average people trying to work hard and earn a living will be paying between 70-80% or more, of their income to fund paying off the debts we are incurring so callously today. And if your children are working that much for the government instead of themselves or their own families, are they really going to be free? I submit to you that the answer is no. People will be working as tax slaves. The real cost of big government is very literally, our freedom.
Now with that groundwork of what the future is going to hold laid, let's return to the present.
Today, the President threatened to veto any spending bill that cut $60 billion or more out of a budget that spends almost 4 trillion dollars. $60B is 1.5% of 4 trillion. So the President says that 98.5% of his budget is untouchable. How many sane people believe that 98.5% of what the federal government spends is actually vitally important?
When you further consider that this 4 trillion dollar budget includes locking in the almost trillion dollars worth of "stimulus" spending as a permanent thing, can a sane person really believe that more than 25% of the federal budget is vitally important? That so-called stimulus layout was supposed to be a one-time thing, wasn't it?
Take a look at that article. While I normally disapprove of the way the national media implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) endorses the fiscal ruination of this nation, Jake Tapper is normally very good on actual reporting instead of regurgitating what he's told by government officials.
It's the same old tired propaganda of "we have to spend more on education, this that and the other..." because it's compassionate and/or good for the future.
How compassionate/good for the future is the very realistic scenario outlined above?
If the President thinks that 1.5% of the massively over-inflated budget is worth shutting down the entire government temporarily, then it's time to go ahead and do it. In the end, a little inconvenience now is much preferable to enslaving ourselves and our children to the government in the future.
If you have children/grandchildren/nieces/nephews or even are a young person yourself, take a good look at them (or in the mirror). Then take a look at what the future tax rates are going to have to be in order to keep the federal government from collapsing under the weight of the debt being created today. Estimates are the lowest income bracket will have to go from 10% to 25% and the middle income brackets will become 66%, up from 25-28%. And that's before you start counting State income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, etc. So in essence, if we continue on this spending binge, in the very near future, average people trying to work hard and earn a living will be paying between 70-80% or more, of their income to fund paying off the debts we are incurring so callously today. And if your children are working that much for the government instead of themselves or their own families, are they really going to be free? I submit to you that the answer is no. People will be working as tax slaves. The real cost of big government is very literally, our freedom.
Now with that groundwork of what the future is going to hold laid, let's return to the present.
Today, the President threatened to veto any spending bill that cut $60 billion or more out of a budget that spends almost 4 trillion dollars. $60B is 1.5% of 4 trillion. So the President says that 98.5% of his budget is untouchable. How many sane people believe that 98.5% of what the federal government spends is actually vitally important?
When you further consider that this 4 trillion dollar budget includes locking in the almost trillion dollars worth of "stimulus" spending as a permanent thing, can a sane person really believe that more than 25% of the federal budget is vitally important? That so-called stimulus layout was supposed to be a one-time thing, wasn't it?
Take a look at that article. While I normally disapprove of the way the national media implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) endorses the fiscal ruination of this nation, Jake Tapper is normally very good on actual reporting instead of regurgitating what he's told by government officials.
It's the same old tired propaganda of "we have to spend more on education, this that and the other..." because it's compassionate and/or good for the future.
How compassionate/good for the future is the very realistic scenario outlined above?
If the President thinks that 1.5% of the massively over-inflated budget is worth shutting down the entire government temporarily, then it's time to go ahead and do it. In the end, a little inconvenience now is much preferable to enslaving ourselves and our children to the government in the future.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Does the law mean anything today?
Yesterday a federal judge in Florida hearing the lawsuit by 26 states against what everyone now calls "Obamacare" ruled that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. He went further, taking the government's argument that without the mandate the law was unimplementable and agreed thereby throwing out the entire law and issuing a de facto injunction against implementation.
However, not hours later did the regime already show its condescension for the law by attempting to justify its intent to defy the court. The regime's only course of action is to comply with the ruling until they appeal. This is not the Third World where the dictator trashes a so-called independent judiciary and over rules them. This isn't a democracy where you can say the people don't agree. This is a republic where each branch of government has checks and balances against each other and if the democrats want to over rule the judicial ruling without appealing then their only option is to start over and rewrite the legislation and make it legal under the Constitution.
If Obama and his minions take any other path than the two mentioned above, it's time to drag this regime before that court and declare them in contempt and once done, remove them from office through the allowed Constitutional process. This is not a game folks. These are serious transgressions against the republic and Constitution and puts our freedom in a precarious state. It cannot be tolerated by any president not matter who they are or what label or mantle they wear.
Otherwise the law means nothing anymore, and we see in Tunisia, Egypt and other places, past and present what results. And the United States of America is better than that; the people are better than that, and the rule of law must be respected.
However, not hours later did the regime already show its condescension for the law by attempting to justify its intent to defy the court. The regime's only course of action is to comply with the ruling until they appeal. This is not the Third World where the dictator trashes a so-called independent judiciary and over rules them. This isn't a democracy where you can say the people don't agree. This is a republic where each branch of government has checks and balances against each other and if the democrats want to over rule the judicial ruling without appealing then their only option is to start over and rewrite the legislation and make it legal under the Constitution.
If Obama and his minions take any other path than the two mentioned above, it's time to drag this regime before that court and declare them in contempt and once done, remove them from office through the allowed Constitutional process. This is not a game folks. These are serious transgressions against the republic and Constitution and puts our freedom in a precarious state. It cannot be tolerated by any president not matter who they are or what label or mantle they wear.
Otherwise the law means nothing anymore, and we see in Tunisia, Egypt and other places, past and present what results. And the United States of America is better than that; the people are better than that, and the rule of law must be respected.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Harry Reid: The Moronic Tyrant Wannabe
I don't know about you, but I'm not much for tyranny. And more and more of these politicians in Washington are exposing themselves for what they are. Tyrannically minded. When the Senate Majority Leader proclaims for all the world to hear "Americans love government. It's the politics in government they don't love" I take notice, and so should every other American.
Americans don't love government. If we did we never would have fought a war to separate from the tyrannical government of Britain in the 18th century. We love liberty, which is the opposite of large, suffocating, in your face, Orwellian government.
And I can think of quite a few places that don't have "politics in government". Cuba. China. Venezuela. Burma. You know, places where if you disagree with the ruling regime and make noise about what they're doing, you disappear. Sometimes to a prison, sometimes face down in a ditch.
Politics, discourse, and dissent are a large part of free societies. But to the radical Left, dissent is only for when they are in the minority and are fighting against things school choice, State sovereignty, gun ownership, the entire rest of the Bill of Rights, etc. When they're in power, everyone should bow to their every whim and agree with everything they do.
All you have to do to understand these people is pay attention to moments like this where they are speaking off script and expose their true thoughts and intentions. And it's why we need to continue to remove them politically through the voting system and not back down to compromise with those who have this tyrannical mindset.
Americans don't love government. If we did we never would have fought a war to separate from the tyrannical government of Britain in the 18th century. We love liberty, which is the opposite of large, suffocating, in your face, Orwellian government.
And I can think of quite a few places that don't have "politics in government". Cuba. China. Venezuela. Burma. You know, places where if you disagree with the ruling regime and make noise about what they're doing, you disappear. Sometimes to a prison, sometimes face down in a ditch.
Politics, discourse, and dissent are a large part of free societies. But to the radical Left, dissent is only for when they are in the minority and are fighting against things school choice, State sovereignty, gun ownership, the entire rest of the Bill of Rights, etc. When they're in power, everyone should bow to their every whim and agree with everything they do.
All you have to do to understand these people is pay attention to moments like this where they are speaking off script and expose their true thoughts and intentions. And it's why we need to continue to remove them politically through the voting system and not back down to compromise with those who have this tyrannical mindset.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Happy New Year, Happy New Congress
It's a new year, and finally a new Congress. While the new Republican majority in the House should prevent any more radical legislation from being shoved through, We the People cannot rest on our laurels and must continue to be vigilant and keep an eye on all of them, particularly the newcomers. The days of going about our lives and not worrying about what's going on in Washington, and our State capitals are over. Too much damage has been done and if we are going to prevent any more, let alone reversing the damage, we have to keep one eye on every move they are making.
With that said, today is a good day for America.
With that said, today is a good day for America.
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