Sometime ago a young President wannabe uttered the fateful words:
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
In the spirit of that cooperation, I offer you my plan on dealing with the Wisconsin situation.
Posted in Diplomacy, Government, Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Democrat, Leftist, Politics, Scott Walker, Unions, Wisconsin
In what is clearly a state issue, President Obama has decided he needs to weigh in on the proposed legislation in Wisconsin.
Long a fan and powerful ally of unions in general, it is no surprise that Obama would come out in favor of the specific debate in Wisconsin.
Further adding to the list of non-surprises is his choice of words and his tactic of rhetoric.
Posted in Diplomacy, Government, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Democrat, Leftist, Politics, Unions, Wisconsin
For nearly 40 years I lived free from the burdens of a red hot political fire. Sure I had my views on issues, the big ones, without a doubt. But reading and studying like I’ve done? Never.
It never EVER occurred to me to “be political”.
But that ALL changed with Barack Hussein Obama. In an instant.
So, I wonder how many people who heaped blame on Toyota will admit they were wrong?
The Department of Transportation, in its long-awaited report on Toyota’s infamous accelerators, has concluded that cases of cars suddenly speeding off on their own were the result of either sticky pedals, floor mats jammed against the pedals or, quite simply, driver error. In fact, the report cites driver error for most of the mishaps.
Nice. Driver error.
And for this General Motors The American Government caused untold damages against Toyota.
Go government!
Posted in Government, Idiots on Parade, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Leftist
It would seem that there IS a limit to what the Federal Government can mandate. There does exist a line that they may not cross. There does come a time, when the Rights and the Liberty of man is A-priori to the State.
Obamacare has been ruled Unconstitutional in Florida.
Long live the Republic!
Posted in Government, Health Care, Liberty, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Leftist, Politics
We’ve gotten a bunch of attention lately. None of it very good.
Wake County has had its name drug through the mud, both here in the county, elsewhere about the state and then nationally on the Colbert Show.
For this week, we’ve become a laughing-stock.
At the center of it all seems to be one individual; John Tedesco.
The debate rages on; almost always never resolved. Do tax hikes benefit or harm economies?
On the one hand, the argument is that the State needs the income to do the People’s Business. On the other hand, taxes are a burden and a head wind for economic growth.
Who wins out?
Posted in Economics, Government, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Abuse of Power, Capitalism, Democrat, Illinois, Jimmy Johns, Taxes
There is nothing government can do to help.
Government, in it’s purest form is a concept rooted in “negative liberty“. That is:
Negative liberty is defined as freedom from interference by other people…
That is, Liberty is best defined as that state found when living alone, on that “deserted island” where no man can take or demand.
On that island, a man is free and owns his liberty.
If, in the course of living, another should try to take from him his liberty, he is within “justice” to defend his self, his property and his life.
Government is nothing more than the collective acting as the individual in saying, you may not do this thing.
So be careful when the government comes to you offering you help.
Posted in Liberty, Politics: International, Politics: National, Welfare
Tagged Abuse of Power, Leftist, Socialism
A favorite tactic of the Left is to create a problem, exploit it and then sell us on the solution.
Example:
We should force the government to pay for the medical care of people who have no money.
There are people in this country that are using the emergency room as their primary care physician. This costs Americans billions of dollars a year and creates inefficient emergent care facilities.
We need to pass this health care bill so that we can avoid paying billions of dollars a year and restore order to emergent care facilities.
See? Create a problem through legislation. Leverage the predictable consequences. Pass new legislation.
And here we go again; Version 1,376,892:
MINNEAPOLIS – The federal government proposed Thursday to reward farmers who use crop insurance and demonstrate good management practices that limit their losses.
Because the federal government can do what the market can’t?
The plan will cost about $75 million, but the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation said the benefits will outweigh the costs by promoting sound farming practices that reduce losses, discouraging the filing of small claims and encouraging producers to keep using crop insurance.
So, we need to spend $75 million to encourage farmers to do what they SHOULD be doing already? So tell me, why wouldn’t farmers be motivated to “promote sound farming practices that reduce losses, discourage the filing of small claims and encouraging producers to keep using crop insurance?”
Could it be….
…the savings may allow for decreases in future premium rates, reducing costs to farmers and taxpayers who subsidize the federal crop insurance program.
THERE it is.
We create a problem; we subsidize farmers.
Then we exploit the results; farmers are losing their farms and costing tax payers.
Then we pass legislation to fix those results.
How about we just quit paying farmers that aren’t able to remain competitive, let them fail and allow the great farmers to farm more and more land?
Nah.
Posted in Government, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Abuse of Power, Subsidy, Taxes
Like a drum beat in the background for nearly three years now we’ve heard that we need to pass stimulus bills to fund “shovel ready infrastructure” . Somehow we have left our roads and bridges in such disrepair that failure to raise taxes to spend money on their repair is simply…is simply…is simply too much for words.
That idea has always left me a little unsatisfied. I mean, how do we budget for and then pay for the repairs of bridges and roads normally? I mean, does it take a stimulus bill to pay for this maintenance?
Look, an asteroid shower hits roads and bridges Kentucky, I’m all for a spending bill that repairs those bridges and those roads. But the routine upkeep. That CAN’T require stimulus. Right?
Federal highway programs are funded not from general tax revenue but from various highway user taxes, mostly the federal tax on gasoline and diesel fuel. Legally, all those monies constitute the source of funding for the Highway Trust Fund. When Congress decides on spending for highways (and since the Reagan era, for mass transit), the dollars are supposed to come from this Trust Fund.
What the appropriations committees used to do was to approve funding for those purposes that was less than the user-tax revenues coming in. That meant federal revenues for surface transportation exceeded federal spending in that area, which made the overall budget deficit look smaller than it really was—and was manifestly unfair to the highway users who were paying the bills.
Nice.
See, they tax us on usage–which is AS IT SHOULD BE- for the infrastructure that we use. Then they don’t use that money to keep the infrastructure up. Then they claim that we need to pass massive stimulus bills to fix the infrastructure that they didn’t fix with the money they spent somewhere else.
Damn it!
Posted in Government, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Abuse of Power, Budget, Deficit, Roads and Bridges