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.
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
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.
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.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Good News!
Good news! Only another 36,000 people lost their jobs today! Harry Reid says so, so it must be great!
Oh, and just when you thought it couldn't get any BETTER, last month's job losses were revised up another 6,000. So I guess we better make that 42,000 more total. I think I'm going to go have some ice cream with lunch today because it's such a GREAT day. Thanks for letting me know Harry!
Oh, and just when you thought it couldn't get any BETTER, last month's job losses were revised up another 6,000. So I guess we better make that 42,000 more total. I think I'm going to go have some ice cream with lunch today because it's such a GREAT day. Thanks for letting me know Harry!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Massachusetts Patriots Overcome the Drones
By this morning, anyone that reads or listens to any news knows that the voters in Massachusetts have sent a clear and loud notice to the Democrats that the electorate is angry and not going to be written off any longer.
Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley in what many headlines have called "an epic upset". I would reject that view and put forth the headline "Massachusetts voters return to reality and remember the likes of Sam Adams and Paul Revere".
Already Democrats are doing what those of a leftist mentality do best. Point fingers at everybody but themselves. And others like Jim Webb of Virginia are in full panic mode and calling for no votes on health care until Brown is seated to look like they are in touch with the voters. Much, much too late Mr. Webb.
And this is just the beginning. Wait until November.
Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley in what many headlines have called "an epic upset". I would reject that view and put forth the headline "Massachusetts voters return to reality and remember the likes of Sam Adams and Paul Revere".
Already Democrats are doing what those of a leftist mentality do best. Point fingers at everybody but themselves. And others like Jim Webb of Virginia are in full panic mode and calling for no votes on health care until Brown is seated to look like they are in touch with the voters. Much, much too late Mr. Webb.
And this is just the beginning. Wait until November.
Friday, January 15, 2010
On the Massachusetts Senate Election
I've been enjoying the past week or so. Enjoying watching the liberals in full panic mode and having to spend precious time and resources fighting for a Senate seat that a few months ago everyone was giving to the Democrats without so much as a second thought. Watching this true panic in a bastion of clone factories that turn out Marxist-liberal drones on an assembly line is both amazing and fun at the same time.
Recent polls have shown that the Republican candidate, State Senator Scott Brown, is leading 50-46. He's been campaigning on being the 41st vote to hold up a Republican filibuster on Obamacare, Cap&Tax, and other Marxist agendas of this president. Looks like being the "Party of No" is resonating quite well with the voters when it comes to saying no to Marxism in the US. The significance of this race is that Brown could be decisive in stopping this monstrosity from becoming law at all if he wins and can get sworn in before the conference bill is completed.
Even if he doesn't win, this bodes well for the November elections. If a Republican can make a race out a seat in the liberal capital of the East Coast, then Democrats are in for a rude awakening all around the country.
Recent polls have shown that the Republican candidate, State Senator Scott Brown, is leading 50-46. He's been campaigning on being the 41st vote to hold up a Republican filibuster on Obamacare, Cap&Tax, and other Marxist agendas of this president. Looks like being the "Party of No" is resonating quite well with the voters when it comes to saying no to Marxism in the US. The significance of this race is that Brown could be decisive in stopping this monstrosity from becoming law at all if he wins and can get sworn in before the conference bill is completed.
Even if he doesn't win, this bodes well for the November elections. If a Republican can make a race out a seat in the liberal capital of the East Coast, then Democrats are in for a rude awakening all around the country.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Slow Death of Federalism
It's been a long, slow, death march for federalism as the rough hands of the statist thugs drag it to the gallows.
The reality in American government today is so distorted from what the Founders had worked so hard to build that I highly doubt they'd even recognize this country today as the one they created.
Today the federal government blackmails the States and wields authority over them using the financial carrot and stick that may as well be an iron cudgel. It used to be that if one State placed an unfair burden on any citizen or group of citizens, they could move to another State and escape the high taxes or targeted legislation. When the federal government gets the power over you, you cannot escape without giving up on the country entirely. And then where will you go?
As we watch the social experimentation states such as California teeter on the edge of collapse, the federal government wants the power to do all of that and more, and when the collapse comes, both financial and of our liberty, we will not be able to escape it.
William Buckley once said he'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than 2,000 faculty members at Harvard. Well I would rather be governed by the first 535 names in my phone book than this insane Congress. The point is that a random number of people taken out of your local phone book are much more likely to share your concerns being in your own community than some detached elitist at some stuffy university or in federal government. Just because they have a PhD. doesn't mean they know what's best for anybody other than themselves. Professors and politicians certainly don't know what's better for me than I do. Those professors and politicians that think they do are nothing more than an aristocracy in waiting using words and studies full of skewed "facts" to convince you to give over your liberty to them, their ideas, for the "greater good". (Look at the federal Congress today. How many of them already walk around like they are royalty? How many already ignore you?)
When you allow someone that has no idea who you are, or what your concerns are to govern you, you enable them to do to you what they will, all the while believing they are doing what's best for you. This is one of the many reasons why the federal government was supposed to have power over limited things such as printing currency, foreign relations, and raising the military, and the individual States and the people were to take care of everything else. The federal government, as designed by the Constitution of the United States, was to have little to NO impact on the lives on the individual citizen. It's much harder for State officials to ignore you. They live in your state. And it is even more difficult for local officials to ignore you. They live in your town. Yet we keep giving more and more power to people who can so easily ignore us and have no real interest on the impact some new law has on us, because they live no where near us.
Yet here we are, in 2009 and you cannot escape the oily fingers of the federal government. And now they want to dictate to you your health insurance, your doctor, and following that it will be what you eat, what physical activity you do... because you are overweight (or will be) and cost everybody more in taxes...
Keep it up people. Let's see if by the 300th birthday of the nation we can make this place truly unrecognizable.
The reality in American government today is so distorted from what the Founders had worked so hard to build that I highly doubt they'd even recognize this country today as the one they created.
Today the federal government blackmails the States and wields authority over them using the financial carrot and stick that may as well be an iron cudgel. It used to be that if one State placed an unfair burden on any citizen or group of citizens, they could move to another State and escape the high taxes or targeted legislation. When the federal government gets the power over you, you cannot escape without giving up on the country entirely. And then where will you go?
As we watch the social experimentation states such as California teeter on the edge of collapse, the federal government wants the power to do all of that and more, and when the collapse comes, both financial and of our liberty, we will not be able to escape it.
William Buckley once said he'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than 2,000 faculty members at Harvard. Well I would rather be governed by the first 535 names in my phone book than this insane Congress. The point is that a random number of people taken out of your local phone book are much more likely to share your concerns being in your own community than some detached elitist at some stuffy university or in federal government. Just because they have a PhD. doesn't mean they know what's best for anybody other than themselves. Professors and politicians certainly don't know what's better for me than I do. Those professors and politicians that think they do are nothing more than an aristocracy in waiting using words and studies full of skewed "facts" to convince you to give over your liberty to them, their ideas, for the "greater good". (Look at the federal Congress today. How many of them already walk around like they are royalty? How many already ignore you?)
When you allow someone that has no idea who you are, or what your concerns are to govern you, you enable them to do to you what they will, all the while believing they are doing what's best for you. This is one of the many reasons why the federal government was supposed to have power over limited things such as printing currency, foreign relations, and raising the military, and the individual States and the people were to take care of everything else. The federal government, as designed by the Constitution of the United States, was to have little to NO impact on the lives on the individual citizen. It's much harder for State officials to ignore you. They live in your state. And it is even more difficult for local officials to ignore you. They live in your town. Yet we keep giving more and more power to people who can so easily ignore us and have no real interest on the impact some new law has on us, because they live no where near us.
Yet here we are, in 2009 and you cannot escape the oily fingers of the federal government. And now they want to dictate to you your health insurance, your doctor, and following that it will be what you eat, what physical activity you do... because you are overweight (or will be) and cost everybody more in taxes...
Keep it up people. Let's see if by the 300th birthday of the nation we can make this place truly unrecognizable.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
The Sky is Falling!
[NOTE] This post has been pre-scheduled due to my presence at the protests in Washington. I'll be back tomorrow for updates on it.
With liberals, every day it is something else. Global warming. Swine flu. Doctors in a mass conspiracy to steal your feet. Oh my God if we don't do SOMETHING RIGHT NOW we are all DOOMED! When does it stop?
I'm tired of every day there being a crisis to distract us from what really matters. The constant fear mongering is a direct plot to get people to fear making any decision for themselves and giving that power up to the benevolent government to make the right choice for them.
Well people like me are finally waking up to this. It's something else I have to thank the President for. With his massive over reach in power, he's set off enough alarm bells that normal every day people that don't pay attention to politics are waking up to the reality of the situation around them.
52% of people voted for "hope and change". Now more than that, 54% have woken up and realized a very big mistake was made last November. It's just a shame the alternative to the radicals we have in power right now are wishy-washy Charlie Browns.
If I had my way, all of Congress would just go home and stay there. This country would be much better off if no new laws were made at all and people and the markets were able to run the country the way it was meant to be run: without government red tape and interference. And from what I've seen and read lately, more and more people agree with that sentiment and it gives me hope for this country yet.
Meanwhile the media is still hoping for a massive hurricane to slam the US somewhere to distract everyone from their beloved Obama from being exposed for what he really is more and more every day.
With liberals, every day it is something else. Global warming. Swine flu. Doctors in a mass conspiracy to steal your feet. Oh my God if we don't do SOMETHING RIGHT NOW we are all DOOMED! When does it stop?
I'm tired of every day there being a crisis to distract us from what really matters. The constant fear mongering is a direct plot to get people to fear making any decision for themselves and giving that power up to the benevolent government to make the right choice for them.
Well people like me are finally waking up to this. It's something else I have to thank the President for. With his massive over reach in power, he's set off enough alarm bells that normal every day people that don't pay attention to politics are waking up to the reality of the situation around them.
52% of people voted for "hope and change". Now more than that, 54% have woken up and realized a very big mistake was made last November. It's just a shame the alternative to the radicals we have in power right now are wishy-washy Charlie Browns.
If I had my way, all of Congress would just go home and stay there. This country would be much better off if no new laws were made at all and people and the markets were able to run the country the way it was meant to be run: without government red tape and interference. And from what I've seen and read lately, more and more people agree with that sentiment and it gives me hope for this country yet.
Meanwhile the media is still hoping for a massive hurricane to slam the US somewhere to distract everyone from their beloved Obama from being exposed for what he really is more and more every day.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
More Legislative Insanity on Health Care
Do Democrats know the meaning of the saying the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? I don't think they do.
Now Senator Max Baucus has proposed levying fees against insurance companies to help pay for "reform". As usual, this is playing to the class envy that people who do not know what personal responsibility is in order to garner support for an idiotic idea.
After all you liberals are done cheering "down with insurance companies! They should pay!", tell me this: Do you really think that insurance companies are just going to suck it up and pay this "fee"? For those of us that live in the real world we know the answer is no. They will raise premiums even higher to recoup the lost money thereby showing once again why government intervention and regulation RAISES costs instead of lowering them.
Yet people keep on supporting government involvement in everything then wonder why costs are going up. Oh yeah. It's those greedy bastard big corporations that raise rates for no good reason other than because they want more people to not be able to afford their product, then get blamed for it and have to pay a fee in order to help pay for those people who can't afford their product and then... well just go back to the beginning and keep reading this until you keel over and die because it's a never-ending loop. And unlike government, I have important things to do and can't sit here typing that over and over again.
It's time to wake up to the real people responsible for expensive health care: regulation-happy politicians and trial lawyers. Stop allowing these blowhard politicians to raise your costs, then turn around five years later and point the finger at somebody else.
And on top of that he also wants to fine you thousands of dollars if you don't have health insurance. I'm sorry, when did the Constitution give you the right to tell me what to buy and what not to? Yet they keep saying this "health care reform" isn't government takeover and intrusion into our lives and freedoms. Right.
Now Senator Max Baucus has proposed levying fees against insurance companies to help pay for "reform". As usual, this is playing to the class envy that people who do not know what personal responsibility is in order to garner support for an idiotic idea.
After all you liberals are done cheering "down with insurance companies! They should pay!", tell me this: Do you really think that insurance companies are just going to suck it up and pay this "fee"? For those of us that live in the real world we know the answer is no. They will raise premiums even higher to recoup the lost money thereby showing once again why government intervention and regulation RAISES costs instead of lowering them.
Yet people keep on supporting government involvement in everything then wonder why costs are going up. Oh yeah. It's those greedy bastard big corporations that raise rates for no good reason other than because they want more people to not be able to afford their product, then get blamed for it and have to pay a fee in order to help pay for those people who can't afford their product and then... well just go back to the beginning and keep reading this until you keel over and die because it's a never-ending loop. And unlike government, I have important things to do and can't sit here typing that over and over again.
It's time to wake up to the real people responsible for expensive health care: regulation-happy politicians and trial lawyers. Stop allowing these blowhard politicians to raise your costs, then turn around five years later and point the finger at somebody else.
And on top of that he also wants to fine you thousands of dollars if you don't have health insurance. I'm sorry, when did the Constitution give you the right to tell me what to buy and what not to? Yet they keep saying this "health care reform" isn't government takeover and intrusion into our lives and freedoms. Right.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Hypocritical Politicians Striking Again
This time in Massachusetts. With the death of Senator Kennedy, Democrats now want to change the state law so the Democratic governor can appoint a new Democrat to fill the vacant Senate seat. The goal of course is to get the Democrats back to the 60 votes they need to ram any bill down the throats of the American people.
This might not be controversial in itself except for the fact that just five years ago they had changed this law regarding a replacement from gubernatorial appointment to special election. Way back then the Democrats were running John Kerry against President Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Fully expecting victory over Bush and a vacant Senate seat as a result, the Democrats wanted to ensure that then governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, could not appoint a Republican to replace Kerry if he indeed won the White House. And now that Massachusetts again has a Democrat for a governor it is apparently okay for the governor to appoint a replacement. So now they want to change it back!
This all in response to the dying plea of Senator Kennedy. The real gas is Kennedy was a big pusher of the change back in 2004. So, in other words, governor appointments are un-American when your governor is NOT of your own party; we have to have an election. Yet appointments are very good when you have a governor on your own side. How convenient. You just have to love it.
This might not be controversial in itself except for the fact that just five years ago they had changed this law regarding a replacement from gubernatorial appointment to special election. Way back then the Democrats were running John Kerry against President Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Fully expecting victory over Bush and a vacant Senate seat as a result, the Democrats wanted to ensure that then governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, could not appoint a Republican to replace Kerry if he indeed won the White House. And now that Massachusetts again has a Democrat for a governor it is apparently okay for the governor to appoint a replacement. So now they want to change it back!
This all in response to the dying plea of Senator Kennedy. The real gas is Kennedy was a big pusher of the change back in 2004. So, in other words, governor appointments are un-American when your governor is NOT of your own party; we have to have an election. Yet appointments are very good when you have a governor on your own side. How convenient. You just have to love it.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Why Do We Still Even Have a Congress in Washington?
Seriously. This isn't one of those rants about how Congress is the opposite of progress. I'm serious here. Think about it.
Why, in this day and age with the technology we have do we still pay to send representatives back and forth to Washington DC? Why do we pay millions to keep the Capitol building secured?
Why can't Senators and Representatives just stay in their own offices in their states and have a massive networked video/audio meeting?
It's bad enough that Congress has turned into a full time job with pay and benefits the average American can only dream about. Oh oops. Therein lies the problem. If Congress didn't get paid to travel back and forth, have special expense accounts, residences, and other things, they wouldn't get to feel and act so superior to We the People, would they?
Some of the outbursts during this health care debacle has shown what they think of us. They think we are stupid, know nothings that need a parental figure (the Government) to take care of us and our families because they know better than us. Well to that I say it's time to bring our elected officials back under our control. Instead of expanding Congressional and government power, it's time to lessen it. Take away their special privileges and expense accounts. Set term limits. Make them responsible for following the same laws they subject the rest of the people to. They're citizens too, not royalty. It's time to remind them of it and bring them back to reality. The Founding Fathers intended Congress to be like jury duty, not elected kings and queens. Do the job of representing the people and go home and do something actually productive to society. AKA stop interfering with everyday people and business. Stop hanging around Washington and making things up to pass into law just to look like you are doing something.
Why, in this day and age with the technology we have do we still pay to send representatives back and forth to Washington DC? Why do we pay millions to keep the Capitol building secured?
Why can't Senators and Representatives just stay in their own offices in their states and have a massive networked video/audio meeting?
It's bad enough that Congress has turned into a full time job with pay and benefits the average American can only dream about. Oh oops. Therein lies the problem. If Congress didn't get paid to travel back and forth, have special expense accounts, residences, and other things, they wouldn't get to feel and act so superior to We the People, would they?
Some of the outbursts during this health care debacle has shown what they think of us. They think we are stupid, know nothings that need a parental figure (the Government) to take care of us and our families because they know better than us. Well to that I say it's time to bring our elected officials back under our control. Instead of expanding Congressional and government power, it's time to lessen it. Take away their special privileges and expense accounts. Set term limits. Make them responsible for following the same laws they subject the rest of the people to. They're citizens too, not royalty. It's time to remind them of it and bring them back to reality. The Founding Fathers intended Congress to be like jury duty, not elected kings and queens. Do the job of representing the people and go home and do something actually productive to society. AKA stop interfering with everyday people and business. Stop hanging around Washington and making things up to pass into law just to look like you are doing something.
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