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.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
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.
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