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Monday, August 23, 2010
The numbers don’t add up…
I just got back from a week of vacation where I played US government - I spent way too much money on feel good stuff that yield no actual benefits - and am now because of the time off, busier than a one legged man at an arse kicking contest now at work. But I felt I had to address something that came up during a conversation I had, with a bunch of obvious liberal morons defending the disastrous collectivist policies of the last decade that have reached new limits under demcorat and Obama control, when they blamed Bush and the Iraqi war for anything from $3-$5 trillion in deficits spending. The numbers widely varied apparently even for them, but I was stumped as to why they would be pulling these ridiculous numbers up until I realized the left still wants to make believe that the deficit spending is because of the Iraq wars and defense spending, and not because of the massive growth in wasteful collectivist spending by government.
And lo and behold, it seems that the CBO in this document provides the needed information to break down the facts, and thus, like a someone using a holy symbol or water on a vampire, cause the liberal morons pushing this idiotic meme to scramble for cover. See according to the CBO, the Iraqi war, which I might point out ended in a win just this past week when, on paper at least, the last combat unit left the country, and I must say despite the efforts of so many on the left to force a loss, cost some $709 billion dollars for the duration. In fact, one quick look at the details in the above mentioned document and the numbers in these other CBO documents provides everything needed to create a real nice picture to illustrate the deficit spending from 2003 to this year. A must for your typical factually challenged leftard to see:
The telling numbers, other than the fact that any deficit spending attributed to the cost of the Iraq war are small at best, and all things considered insignificant in the overall deficit spending picture, are the numbers for the last 2 years, where deficit spending skyrocketed. The numbers don’t lie. The total deficits from 2003 through 2010 is $4.73 trillion. Subtract the entire Iraq War cost - $706 billion according to the CBO - and you still have the unbelievable sum of $4.02 trillion to account for!
Your average and predictable lib will then just move the goal post, like the people I was talking to did, and tell you that the massive increase of deficit spending since Obama took office and the demcorats ended up in complete control of both the White House and Congress, was to fix all the stuff the Bush broke. Including the trillions wasted on what they feel was a stupid war in Iraq, despite the fact that those numbers are bullshit.
Let’s just forget the illogic in trying to blame the cost of the war for the deficit when anyone willing to do the research, as I showed, can quickly find out that the economic crisis was a product of a combination of idiotic government mandated lending practices and the subsequent need for a massive scam, centered on Fannie and Freddie, to make the stinking heap of bad loans palatable to investors. While Wall Street also should share in the blame, their fault lies with going along with these stupid collectivist policies instead of shutting down the spigot and letting government choke on these idiotic anti-market and anti-reality policies.
Of course, as soon as I pointed the above out, the factually challenged libs I was talking to switched to the other two booggie-boos often touted, Afghanistan and the Bush tax cuts, as the culprits. Unfortunately for them, the numbers in this graph clearly show these two also seem to have really made no big impact on deficit spending, as the numbers for 2003 to 2007 when both were going on show, while not even adding up to the deficit spending for either 2009 or 2010. There is simply no denying that spending went bonkers after 2007, and we all know what happened in 2006, and 2008, respectively. And Bush was long gone when the donkey decided to flush close to $1 trillion – more than the $706 billion for the 7 year old Iraqi war- down the toilet in that patronage bill that served to only pay off demcorat interests and keep public servants living large while the private sector was hammered by the economic policies and regulations of these collectivists.
In fact, there are several social program outlays during the Bush years that far exceed the cost of the Iraqi war during the same period. Federal outlays on defense as a percentage of GDP under Bush were 4%. And one might be inclined to think higher defense spending numbers might be a good thing when you compare to the roaring 60s and 70s when defense spending was closer to 9% of GDP and the economy was booming to the anemic and moribund economy we now have the pleasure of enduring because of the defense hating collectivist running the country. Numbers, facts, and logic make the lib’s weak and emotion based arguments about what really is causing our massive deficits easy to defeat.
Suffice it to say that when I was done pointing out the real numbers to them, these libs all hated my guts for making them look like idiots. I am certain they also completely ignored the facts I showed them and like the politicians that represent them, will continue to run the same tired lines, hoping to fool as many as possible. After all, way too many people don’t have the time to go figure the truth out, and the Lame Stream Media will certainly not do so for them either, so they can get away with these lies. In the mean time, we will never address the real issue while these people can so freely fabricate the history they want to suit their own disruptive and destructive goals.
We are here today because collectivists refuse to accept the fact that there isn’t enough wealth in the world to give everyone everything for free. Consequently what we end up with when we let their economic and social policies run wild is what they had in the USSR: everyone equally miserable and poor. But to these social justice idiots, that’s better than having some guy that works hard get rich while they don’t.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
How far have we fallen…
I was dumb struck to see the announcement that the Empire State building turns red-yellow for China’s 60th. That is, the Empire State building has been decorated this way because they are celebrating 60 years of communism in China. The question begs to be asked: Why are we celebrating communism? This ideology murdered over a hundred million people and imprisoned billions in their own prison states in the last century. The last bastions of true communism today – North Korea and Cuba – are virtual third world sh*tholes, with their people oppressed and living under the most tyrannical yokes ever to be laid across man’s back. Even though China reformed its economic policies and abandoned the horrible communist economic beliefs that – thank the powers that be! - resulted in the collapse of the USSR, and the Chinese people have a fleeting feeling of more freedom now than they did a score years ago, they remain prisoners of their state. Why would we celebrate this vile orthodoxy?
I know China owns most of our debt, but research showed me that the Empire State building is owned by W&H Properties, a partnership between the Malkin family and the late Leona Helmsley, the underlying land is owned by Empire State Building Associates, which has some 2,764 investors, and that they have the lease for the building until 2076. So it is not the Chinese that own it. This was willfully done by these people to curry favor with the Chinese. Be it so they could make more money in China, or because they actually think communism is OK, this was a horrible thing to do. We should not be celebrating communism: we should be celebrating its demise.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
I’ve seen it!
Was fishing with the kid and his cousins at the in-laws when we happened to see the most incredible phenomenon. A lightsource suddenly appeared in the night sky right ahead of us then did the most incredible thing: it slowly seemed to expand and come down towards the earth, then suddenly vanished. We all speculated about what it was. The kids were convinced it was a UFO! Maybe it was a ghost or God giving us a sign? The aliens are invading! It was real weird. Unfortunately the engineer in me broke the thing down and while I did not immediately come to the correct conclusion, I explained to my son that the only way we saw that slow light expanding effect was, if light was being bounced off some expanding cloud of gas. He of course thought I was goofing off or talking crazy, but it turns out I was right.
The space agency said it launched the Black Brant XII on Saturday evening to gather data on the highest clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere. About the time of the launch, dozens of people in the Northeast started calling local television stations to report seeing strange lights. The calls came from as far away as Boston, which is about 380 miles northeast of the launch site. The rocket is designed to create an artificial cloud. NASA hopes the experiment will provide information on the formation and properties of noctilucent clouds, which occur at high altitudes.
Nice to know I got the cloud diffusion effect right. Light traveling at 300K km/sec is not going to be able to look like it is moving at a few kilometers per second unless it is being diffused by some expanding gas cloud moving at that expansion speed. Physiscs baby! My wife, of course, immediately let me know she thought I was a pompous know it all arse. That’s why I love that gal.
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Getting dissed
Check out how this article about how our law makers serve the public. This happened in my state of CT. During a heated budget debate that led to another party line vote increasing taxes on Connecticut’s citizens, while the House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk was addressing the house to point out the dangerous possible consequences of this tax hike, his colleagues are caught playing solitaire and watching baseball on their computers. These are some of the same scoundrels that scoffed at a call for drastic cuts in government spending as the state faces a $2 billion dollar deficit this year, and an even higher projected deficit next year.
Two Democratic legislators were playing solitaire on their state-issued computers Monday night during a late-night debate on the state budget, and an Associated Press photo that showed the solitaire games soon whipped around the nation on the Internet.
No mention of either the other democrat behind these two bastards watching baseball on his computer or the fact that this was a speech denouncing another tax hike. The article even alludes many others are also likely to be doing anything but the people of the state’s business. We are paying these people to rip us off. Granted that the tax hike is supposed to pass muster with the envy crowd because it’s a state income tax hike on people making lots of money - an increase to 6.5% for singles making $500K or $1 million for couples - that will impact some 3000 people, but if even 10% of those getting hammered decide to leave or are part of the group that got leveled by the troubles on Wall Street, and they are, then the state still faces a major shortfall in revenue.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Sad to see this…
It looks like Lee who created and blogged at Right-Thinking from the Left Coast, one of the first blog sites I ever went to, has passed away. It is a sad day. I have not been as frequent a reader as I was in the past, but this still saddens me. We lost a good guy.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Ron Silver has died…
It is a sad day. It looks like a good man has died. May he rest in peace.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Happy Birthday President Reagan!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Validation!
I have always believed and pointed out that bi-partisanship means different things to the left (democrats) and everyone else. Most people when they hear the word bi-partisanship think about a compromise that reaches somewhere in the middle. Democrats however do not see it this way. To them bi-partisanship means do it our way. Whether we or you are calling the shots, it is never about compromise. Unless you define compromise as they get their way. Obama again proves me right by telling republicans to do only what democrats want.
WASHINGTON—President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration. “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
How about listening to the people? I tend to know what Rush feels about this bail out bonanza, but I don’t agree with him because he told me what to think as Obama seems to be insinuating. I agree with him because he is saying exactly what I already thought about this boondoggle: it is nothing but the democrat party paying back their donors, the people that gave Obama all that cash he used to buy the election, with tax payer money after democrats used their gains in the 2006 election to destroy our economy (and of course blame it on Bush and Wall Street). Don’t just take my word for it. This money and the policy behind it will do absolutely nothing to improve our economy. In fact it will only prolong the recession, if not push us into a depression, because it does not do the most important thing we need right now: job creation and a climate that promotes economic growth.
The Obama administration is poised to pull an FDR like government expansion program that will put us trillions of dollars into debt. Remember how the democrats castigated Bush for this deficit spending and told us they would bring change? Yeah, the change they are giving us is to make the deficit spending of the Bush years look trivial. And the reality is that all that spending will not help anyone but democrats to expand their power. The things that spur economic growth, low taxes, targeted regulations that are not simply government using its power to favor those that donate to the politician’s campaigns, and letting the people pick what they want, are all anathema to the collectivists in power. They would rather America crash & burn, and maybe this is what they wanted from the start, than admit what they believe in is crap.
One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts. “There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats,” the official said. “We shouldn’t let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done.”
What this guy was referring to here is the desire of both democrats and republican politicians to keep their seats at all costs. Basically republicans are being told to step out of the way and let democrats do what they want or else. I am worried too many of these idiot republicans will do just that, play along with the democrats because they believe that they will be allowed to keep their cushy job, and then wonder why they lose their seat anyway come the next election. Democrats play for keeps. They are OK breaking any rule as long as it helps them. Take a look at governor crook Blago, military hater Murtha, Fanny & Freddy crisis bosses Dodd and Franks, tax evader Geithner, and the many adventures of Rangel, racist Reich, and so many others this list would break your browser. Are we at a point yet where we can say the democrats make the republicans look like pikers? Not with the MSM having control of saying so, of course.
The fact of the matter is that these government people are about to waste anywhere from $1 to $5 trillion dollars on stuff that will not improve the economy and create jobs for you and me. This money is being spent to expand the power of government and to reward donors and political insiders. But you will never hear that from the complicit media. Forget Rush Limbaugh. Listen to the American people: this has to stop. Not with my tax money! Bipartisanship my ass. Stop this disaster now.
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Thursday, January 01, 2009
Happy New Year!
All the best in 2009. This looks like it is going to be a though year.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
This is how the left censors what they disagree with..
Beware the future.. Google, yeah the same group of bastards that help some of the worlds vilest and most oppressive governments, has admitted they its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It’s a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance. Google is run by leftist twits. The same kind of people that run our education system, both our primary public schools and our universities & colleges, and decide what people are allowed to learn or not. So now we find out Google’s people play with search results. Want to bet their decision making is driven by their progressive beliefs & agenda? Information & knowledge are power. Control that and you can manipulate people. We just saw how our media manipulated the news and allowed a democrat to buy the election. I am afraid this was just the start of somethign worse.
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Monday, December 08, 2008
Marxist tells you not to worry about him taking power???
Obama must be kidding: Don’t worry about him taking power, and stop buying guns? You are kidding right? Why would you say something like that? This stuff makes me worried. What’s next? Don’t worry, I have ordered all guns registered and then confiscated for your own good?
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Thursday, November 06, 2008
And so it begins
It looks like the blue-blood republicans, especially those involved with the McCain campaign, according to Hot Air, are putting in more effort attacking Sarah Palin than they ever did going after Obama. Apparently this was going on while the campaign was going on. I guess it figures. These people where pissed that real people connected better with Palin than with McCain and them. While the democrats managed to create a culture of anger and Bush fatigue and rode that well, it bears to be mentioned that the McCain campaign, with the exception of Palin, was simply pathetic and weak. That these people are trying now to destroy Palin is obviously a precursor to avoiding this. Screw these moderats and blue-bloods hard.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Fraud and lies..
Let me ask you a question. If you where sitting on a jury and a lawyer came up and told you his client whom was caught by bank security guards with a gun and a note saying “give me all the money or I start shooting everyone in sight” did not intend to rob the bank and was actually innocent, because he really was planning to do something else, would you buy it? Would you actually wonder if maybe it was just so much coincidence? I am certain most honest people would immediately dismiss this lawyer outright as the intent of the perp was quite obvious.
And yet, these past weeks I have had a slew of liberals tell me that ACORN’s massive attempt at voter registration fraud was not really a big deal because in the end nobody could prove the intent was to commit voter fraud, or even more importantly, that fraud was occurring. I even tried the above question on a couple of them. The first did not realize why I had asked it and fell right into the trap. The second one picked it up as soon as he had answered and began to spin wildly. But it was obvious and it was too late. Eventually both told me it did not matter. The end justified the means because republicans had to be taken out of power so America could be fixed (meaning made a socialist state).
With the media feeling the same way these libs I interacted with these days do, it is no wonder that Obama campaign is likely to have the largest amount of voter fraud since the Kennedy election happen and not have it even reported. Heck, they disabled their credit card security protocols and have been taking donations from foreigners, people that gave way over the allowed maximums, and even from people that used other people’s credit cards! The Obama campaign raised $100 million in one month through this online portal. And yet this is also not news.
We are so hosed.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Z0 shares wisdom.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
I wonder….
How many of these special voters where induced to vote for democrats with bribes. The story does not go there but there is no doubt that the vote of these people are basically being bought. Of course because they are voting for the right party nobody but republicans seem to have issues with these kinds of tactics. Does anyone doubt that any republicans doing something like this would result in prime time news coverage, accusations of electoral fraud, and demands republicans just concede the election? It is becoming obvious to me that America not only has a media that is more interested in playing King Maker for the democrats than telling the people the facts, but that democrats think it is quite fine to cheat to win no matter what. After all, they believe they are right and republicans are evil. Sane people would be able to extrapolate how this kind of attitude eventually results in dangerous totalitarian behavior, but I guess, as is always the case with radical collectivist cults, as long as it is stuff that helps them grab power it is good. How sad that after defeating the USSR we will go down because of the KGBs effective indoctrination and elitists power hungry collectivist’s egotistical mania.
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