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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Keeping his promise…
Well, considering how many promises he has broken so far and how many more look like they will have to be broken to keep the scam alive, I feel I should give Obama his props for keeping at least one promise.When he told Joe the Plumber that he believed that the wealth should be spread around, he seems to have meant it. And the latest statistics seem to back his promise to do so up. Of course there is always a little twist, and when he spoke about spreading the wealth… Well don’t take it from me, here is the article’s take on it:
Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds. At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010. Those records reflect a long-term trend accelerated by the recession and the federal stimulus program to counteract the downturn. The result is a major shift in the source of personal income from private wages to government programs.
| Other than the fact I get irked whenever the MSM refers to that government scam that funneled close to a trillion of our tax payer dollars to demcorat operatives & agents, past and future donors, friends and entities, and finally to the demcorat politician’s campaign chests, to “stimulate” their chances come the 2010 elections, as a “federal stimulus program”, I would say that they got the gist of what this new breed of statist collectivists are all about down pat. We are being led by the same kind of “intelligencia” groups that make up your usual liberal arts college academia, and it is not a coincidence that they feel the solution to all problems is a government led by them, that micromanages and relies on central planning and direct or indirect ownership & control of all aspects of the economy, to achieve their socialist Utopia. It’s no wonder then that the loathed private industry is being sucked dry while government spending grows drastically. It’s also no surprise to those of us that understand how economics work in the real world, that this practice is causing exactly the opposite effect these know-nothing nincompoops with overinflated egos and delusions of their own importance and wisdom thought it would, and wrecking our economy. Literally government is now in the business of picking winners & losers, not just as far as individuals go, but which businesses make it, what technologies or practices are adopted or avoided, and doing so not with any kind of scientific rigor or logic – they might claim otherwise but that’s just bull, and the demcorats are the ones that get to choose them. For a small fee, of course.
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The irony is that at a time when the socialist nanny state is clearly failing in Europe, our politicians are breaking all records recreating the same failed economic model in our country. And while the collectivists now running the US are downplaying the whole European crisis and unavoidable collapse of the whole socialist nanny state – wealth redistribution without the creation of new wealth, something the socialist state excels at, only works for so long, after all -the Chinese are worrying. The statists are taking us in the wrong direction. In their ever expanding need for cash, these demcorats are already looking at such “solutions” as taking over everyone that isn’t working for government’s retirement funds. Props to Obama, however, for keeping a promise....
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Show trail quietly dropped…
Remember all the feigned anger by the donkeys in charge at AIG, for those big bonuses they got Dodd to sign off on, after they took bailout money, back when? Well, as I predicted, all the hoopla and accusations and investigations of evil capitalists running amok and stealing from us, turned to be bull, and now the case has been dropped:
The criminal probe had focused on whether Joseph Cassano, who ran the financial products unit, and Andrew Forster, his deputy, knowingly misled investors about the company’s accounting losses on its credit default swaps portfolio. “Although a 2-year, intense investigation is tough for anyone, the results are wholly appropriate in light of our client’s factual innocence,” F. Joseph Warin and Jim Walden, Cassano’s lawyers, said in a statement.
Of course, if there was any justice we would be getting an investigation into the role Dodd and other demcorats played in this big pay-off scam, that diverted hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars to private industry, and which these demcorats still continue to pretend is all Bush’s making, when anyone that has been paying attention can figure out quickly that they have far surpassed the original $350 billion - which was already $350 billion too much - Bush asked for, but we all know that’s never going to happen.
Speaking of justice, when are we going to have an impartial investigation of and regulation of Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae? Want to know why we are in this economic mess? Demcorats and those two institutions play key and front & center roles. Instead we get tons of show trials, where haughty demcorats accuse evil capitalists of being the incarnation of Satan himself, and capitalism the cause of all our ills, while the vile truth and their own criminal behavior gets a pass. It’s not a coincidence that big companies donate the lion share of their cash to demcorats.
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Did the WH offer Sestak a job to let Specter win in PA?
If this story pans out, the WH is going to be in big trouble. Of course, I expect the MSM to either ignore the story or cover for them, but the fact is that if Obama and his people tried to buy Sestak off with a job offer, to keep that traitor party switcher career politician Specter from going down in flames like he did anyway, they broke the law that forbids government from trying to influence elections by offering or threatening job loss to sway someone.
The White House was backing incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in the primary. Sestak acknowledged in an interview in February that he was offered a position by an unnamed White House official - a potential violation of federal law - but has not offered any specifics on conversation. Republicans are trying to use the issue against Sestak in the November Senate race.
“It’s interesting. I was asked a question about something that happened months earlier, and I felt that I should answer it honestly, and that’s all I had to say about it.” Sestak said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Anybody else has to decide on what they will say upon their role. That’s their responsibility.”
Yet Sestak confirmed to NBC’s David Gregory that the incident did take place.
I say we need an investigation at a minimum. Can you imagine the news cycle if this happened while Bush was in the WH? At a minimum, if it comes out that Sestak was playing fast & loose with the facts, embellishing or misrepresenting what happened, for whatever reason, it should be public knowledge before the election. Like that moron in my state, Blumenthal, they should not get passes for this kind of stuff. If Sestak however is telling the truth, there should be consequences for these most ethical people ever. At a minimum we should get to rub these condescending liberal’s faces in the dog doo as they deserve.
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The economy, government spending, and healthcare..
I have been busier than a one legged man at an ass-kicking contest the last month or so, and have not posed much, but today I have finally gotten some slow time and decided it was time to get back at it. And I think the appropriate place to start is with the current economic crisis gripping the world, and closer at home, this whole government healthcare takeover thingy, better know as Obamacare. Since everyone but the usual bureaucrats seem to understand the budgetary problems facing the great Western socialist paradises on the verge of economic collapse are caused because the parasites “working” in government have had a great run for the last few decades buying themselves both power and bennies with other people’s money, and are discussing the fact that we can’t keep spending at the rate we are, it should be obvious that this massive government expansion would remain unpopular and continue to get more unpopular as people realize the economic impacts associated with it. In fact, the numbers for those of us wanting it repealed, have climbed to 63%, and they are just going to keep going up as even the CBO now has to admit. I am sure the democrats are quite surprised that it now looks like Obamacare will not save us anything but actually cost more. And that is with a shameful slight of hand/scam used by those promoting this most massive government expansion since the first day of the Roosevelt socialist takeover, that allows the government to collect taxes for 10 years, but then only offer services for the last 5 or 6 years in a 10 year cycle. As I have pointed out repeatedly, it should be blatantly obvious that there is no arguing that even if the program doesn’t end up as I suspect it will deep in the red in the first decade, come the next 10 year cycle, the program is going to be short a trillion or more from the start.
The left made a successful run at power starting back in 2008 by pointing out the lack of fiscal discipline by the demcorats. Of course, many forget that despite the president’s best efforts spending is done by Congress, and that Bush’s worst years are those after the demcorats took over in 2006. The left of course blamed Bush’s “warmongering” for the out of control spending despite the obvious fact that this stuff was peanuts compared to the massive, bloated, and ever expanding social spending. Many like me laughed hard at the demcorats pretending to be fiscal hawks, and warned others that they were being lied to. Now but 18 months after they sweeped, we have tacked on, in a single year no less, more than all the Bush years combined. And we are going to tack on oodles more, even if we discount the disastrous Obamacare government takeover of the healthcare monies and decision making process (because that is really what this was about) masquerading as healthcare reform, because that’s what these people are about. Call me cruel or insensitive to my fellow man, but I still remain unable to quantify any benefits for society as a whole from all this social spending, and see it doing far more damage than good, but that’s neither here nor there. When we have created a whole new ever expanding class of serfs dependant on government for their daily subsistence – people that have trade freedoms in return for minimal security, and have as a result neither – that are akin to slaves, lacking in any desire to contribute to the advancement of mankind, other than by the means, I see very little good coming from all this spending. At least the money spent on the military provides decent and good jobs for hardworking taxpayers. Hey, maybe I am just biased that way…
The fact is that this collectivist stuff, past anything other than a family unit, is unsustainable. No, that’s not just my opinion, as the facts clearly prove. The people that see government and this socialist stuff as the answer to everything are trying to reverse course with actions like this one, or this one, all the while maligning and blaming the only system that has actually created new wealth and helped improve our standard of living on this planet, while the collectivists remain good, and that is me being generous because they even suck at that, at wealth redistribution and destruction schemes. The stuff that has gotten us where we are now (no, it was not Bush), and the people that know, are predicting even more bad times.
I often wonder why so many still do not realize or see how Obamacare is going to serve only to speed up our demise. And it isn’t even as if we are actually going to get something good from it. Oh, sure the usual morons have argued about the evils of private insurance and how this government takeover addresses that, but anyone making that argument is an absolute moron. If anything, you will see the very things that so concerned and angered them when done by private insurance companies, happen with more frequency now that a broke government looking to drag out the circling process that is taking us all down the drain as long as possible, will be in charge. You think those evil insurance people were bad? Wait until you have to deal with a spiteful and petty government employee that gets off on the power that their ability to make your life miserable by denying you services, gives them. At least when the insurance companies did it you were under the illusion that you could seek redress from government. Who will you turn to when it is government that is putting the screws to you? Other government employees? Yeah, good luck with that. Don’t worry though. At the rate we are going we might just implode and all end up without healthcare or anything else for that matter, returning to a 19th century standard of living. But in the eyes of these collectivist that would be a good thing – social justice has been served since we are all equally miserable – considering that the only evil they see is that life doesn’t guarantee equality of outcome.
UPDATE: Arthur C. Brooks has this absolutely awesome piece titled “America’s new culture war: Free enterprise vs. government control” over on the WaPO opinion pages. A must read to understand what is currently going on.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
We are gonna control the flow of information no matter what.
Seems the collectivists in DC were not too happy with the SCOTUS telling them the FCC did not have the authority to regulate the internet, and so they have decided that since the internet is destroying their monopoly on what’s news and what isn’t, ruining their control of the narrative, and actually giving voice to other people that point out how evil they are, that the best recourse is to ignore the SCOTUS and go around their decision:
A federal appeals court ruled last month that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate the Internet. No worries, mate. This week the Obama Administration chose to “reclassify” the Internet so it can regulate the Web anyway. This crowd is nothing if not legally creative.
For the past decade, broadband has been classified as an “information service” and thus more lightly regulated than traditional telephone services. This has led to an explosion of new investment and Web innovation, but it hasn’t sat well with Democrats who want more control over the telecom business, as well as with some Web companies (Google) that want more leverage over Internet service providers like Time Warner or Verizon.
So these collectivist crooks are changing the rules of the game to help out their corporate buddies and increase their own power and regulation. Funny that huh? But people still pretend the “evil corporations” and Wall Street are the bad guys. Again, we have the left rigging the game in their and their friends favor. There is a reason big businesses give the largest amount of money to demcorats: they are all for sale.
We should be worried…
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Lefties suffer another letdown.
This morning I woke up to find out that the all those lefties that were already excited about, and predicting that the would-be-bomber that left the SUV filled with explosives that fizzled this past weekend in NYC would end up being a right wing extremist racist, pissed off at Obamacare or some such like NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, amongst the many that said the same, did, are going to yet again have their hopes dashed. As most of us that do know where the threat is coming from suspected and believed, it turns out this was not the work of a McVeigh disciple, Tea Partiers, or anyone angry at the collectivists destroying the country, but, according to this WaPo article, an Islamic terrorist.
Looks like all the drivel from the left about the domestic terrorism threat was right, only they got the real threat wrong yet again. This guy they grabbed at the last minute, as he tried to leave the country on a flight to Dubai , goes by the name of Faisal Shahzad. From the details the media is releasing, to their chagrin I bet, is sure doesn’t sound that, other than the fact that he is a naturalized citizen that was born in Pakistan and thus can be labeled home grown, he is going to turn out to be a right winger as they hoped he would be. Even worse, now it has become quite obvious that since the messiah took over, despite their promises that things would get better, it looks like we are getting more and more terror attack attempts from the people that should have now hated us less. And so far they have not succeeded in killing us simply because of pure dumb luck and ineptitude. I doubt we will hear much about that from the MSM or the WH though. At least Holder finally gets a real in the flesh domestic terrorist he can now stage a show trial in NYC for.
And another thing that caught my attention was that we got this fellow because of NSA probes of a disposable cell phone that led authorities to the would-be terrorists. Can you imagine the cries of woe and accusations of Orwellian or Nazi like government intrusion if this happened while Bush was president? I bet this isn’t even going to come up as a big deal now that the guy in the WH has a (D) next to his name.
Seems like the mythical redneck racist terrorist, like Sasquatch or the Loch Ness monster, continues to elude the left, dashing their hopes for a good excuse to delegitimize the causes of, and facilitate their crack down on, these moronic peasants that aren’t smart enough o understand their betters are in charge and that they should be happy about it. In the mean time terrorists and leftists all over the place continue to commit or try to commit acts of violence, but there isn’t any story there to report.
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