To fundamentally transform the United States of America.
To put more Americans on food stamps than ever before.
To turn 16% of our economy over to the government (healthcare).
To plunder from the pockets of the producers and redistribute wealth.
To pay off political backers by “investing” in their non-sustainable solar companies.
To change union rules so as to make unionization easier.
To deny American energy efforts for the sake of “green” dreams.
To turn long-established bankruptcy law on its head by giving preferences to unsecured union creditors.
To apologize for America on the world stage.
To bow to the enemies of America.
To demonize millionaires and billionaires.
To implement rules and regulations costing businesses trillions each year.
To give the EPA power to destroy segments of our economy … coal, for instance.
To bailout certain industries and then stick the taxpayers with the tab.
To spend $800 billion on virtual dance projects and bridges for endangered squirrels.
To lose 2.5 million jobs in our economy.
To sue states when they try and do what the federal government fails to do – protect its borders.
The list can go on and on .. and it is way too easy to compile. Please feel free to add to the list. This should make for some interesting debate.
government reform
Disband the Congressional Black Caucus
Roger L. Simon makes the argument:
Nothing is worse for Black Americans, African-Americans, Afro-Americans, soul brothers and sisters, people of color, non-ofays, or whatever you choose to call that particular minority segment of our society than the Congressional Black Caucus…
…We’re in the era of Herman Cain, people, not Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, the stultifying Travis Smiley, or that man who has put a generation of Harvard and Princeton students into perpetual narcoleptic sleep — Dr. Cornel West.
And while we’re at it, all other caucuses based on race, religion, creed, or national origin should be put out to pasture along with it. Such groupings are so reactionary and self-destructive they make your eyes roll back in your head, collide with each other, and shoot out again like pinballs, destroying half your brain from the cerebellum to the medulla oblongata in the process. They divide us and help no one. They have no justification any more, if they ever did.
Racism is dead. Or as dead as it’s ever going to be…
Groups like the CBC, though, get to feast on un-earned power and wealth by playing the race card. That is all it is really about. If the people in the CBC cared about black Americans then, quite simply, people like Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel would not be members. An organization which had in mind doing good things for others rather than doing well for themselves would have expelled such people. Race-baiting is good business…just ask people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
At the very minimum, groups like the Congressional Black Caucus should be afforded no funding or facilities by the United States government. If they want to live on private donations and hold their meetings in private facilities, that it their business. But a government of all the people of the United States should not permit a specifically race-based organization to have any semblance of official sanction. To put it in to perspective – supposed someone decided to create the Congressional Catholic Caucus?
Racism has no place in America…whether its for oppression or for con jobs.
Poll: People View Government Very Negatively
Gallup finds us just disgusted with the whole thing:
- 82% of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.
- 69% say they have little or no confidence in the legislative branch of government, an all-time high and up from 63% in 2010.
- 57% have little or no confidence in the federal government to solve domestic problems, exceeding the previous high of 53% recorded in 2010 and well exceeding the 43% who have little or no confidence in the government to solve international problems.
- 53% have little or no confidence in the men and women who seek or hold elected office.
- Americans believe, on average, that the federal government wastes 51 cents of every tax dollar, similar to a year ago, but up significantly from 46 cents a decade ago and from an average 43 cents three decades ago.
- 49% of Americans believe the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. In 2003, less than a third (30%) believed this.
But what about Obama? How’s he doing? Gallup has him at 41% overall for the past month. Not exactly what you would expect for The One who was going to make the oceans recede…wonder if anyone still thinks he’s what we were all waiting for? I mean, other than himself?
Going to be a long, hard year for the Ruling Class in 2012…
230,000 Shovel Ready Jobs!
If, that is, what you want is manure to be shoveled – from Hot Air:
The president has found a way to add jobs, after all — 230,000 of ‘em, all within the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s the number of new bureaucrats the federal government will need to hire to implement new proposed greenhouse gas regulations…
The cost would be $21 billion a year for these extra bureaucrats. And here’s the real kicker – they would be setting about the enforcement of greenhouse gas rules the EPA does not have statutory authority to enforce. Cool, huh? 230,000 more government drones costing us more money and enforcing laws which are created not just at the whim of the President, but at the whim of any one of the 230,000 bureaucrats. Liberal fascism is a wonderful thing, ain’t it?
Once again – 2012 will be a pivotal election. We’ll decide, probably for good, whether America survives and thrives, or starts to die.
We’re in a Heap of Trouble
The end of the world as we know it, says Mark Steyn – and he captures a great deal of the problem in this quote:
…On Thursday night, there was a question on gays in the military but none on the accelerating European debt crisis. It is certainly important to establish whether a would-be president is sufficiently non-homophobic to authorize a crack team of lesbian paratroopers to rappel into the Chinese treasury, break the safe, and burn all our IOUs. But the curious complacency about the bigger questions is disturbing…
For many people, the seriousness of the situation really hasn’t hit home. Oh, its growing, but it isn’t nearly where it needs to be. Good people, we are an ace away from a complete, global meltdown…and such a meltdown which can easily lead to a world war. The world economy is bankrupt and a corrupt Ruling Class doesn’t want to admit it, because admission means immediate replacement. They are hoping we don’t notice until after the election.
But even more serious than that is the moral decline of our civilization…the fact that we’re not having children, we spend money on useless things, we allow immorality to run rampant. All of that adds up to a civilization which wants to die. We have to regain our moral compass and start demanding (beginning with the guy in the mirror, to be sure) that a higher standard is met. If we don’t change it, we’ll be forced in to it anyway…no one is going to pay our way or do our work if we prove too weak to carry the ball. It is either walk out of this liberal blind alley we stumbled in to in 1933, or end America.
Another Obama Crony Capitalist
From Politico:
President Barack Obama will raise money in early October with a Missouri businessman whose company benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state.
Tom Carnahan, a scion of Missouri’s most prominent Democratic political family, is listed on Obama’s campaign website as a host of a $25,000-per-person fundraiser to be held in St. Louis on October 4.
Continue ReadingHis energy development firm, Wind Capital Group, was helped by a sizable credit authorized in the stimulus, for an energy project in northwest Missouri…
If the name “Carnahan” sounds familiar it is because Tom is the son of former Missouri governor Mel Carnahan and former Missouri Senator Jean Carnahan. In other words, what we’ve got here is the scion of a massively connected, political family who is building up a personal fortune via taxpayer subsidy. This is the sort of private enterprise our Democrats actually like…someone who is in the private sector, gets massive government aid and then turns around and boosts Democrats at election time. If the Democrats fully had their way, the only people permitted to be in business would be people like Tom Carnahan.
The world Obama wants to build – the change you can really believe in – is to create in the United States an European-style Ruling Class in which all power in government and industry is held by those who are well-connected…not those who earn it; not those in whom public reposes their trust. The future will be Tom Carnahan clones getting rich and Barack Obama’s running the show while the rest of us dwindle in to poverty and slowly die out as welfare and the Culture of Death sap our will to live…
Revolution is the answer…and next year we can do it.
HAT TIP: Hot Air
The Big Government Economy-Killer
From Real Clear Politics:
From Peter Schiff’s prepared remarks to Congress. Schiff is the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital.
In my own business, securities regulations have prohibited me from hiring brokers for more than three years. I was even fined fifteen thousand dollar expressly for hiring too many brokers in 2008. In the process I incurred more than $500,000 in legal bills to mitigate a more severe regulatory outcome as a result of hiring too many workers. I have also been prohibited from opening up additional offices. I had a major expansion plan that would have resulted in my creating hundreds of additional jobs. Regulations have forced me to put those jobs on hold...
Not that I’m too interested in bigger financial firms…but the main thing is to understand that more people would be working today if government didn’t have insane regulations. It is like this all up and down the economy…pushing up costs, driving down wages, ensuring that businesses either never get started, or don’t expand if they already exist.
It is time, I think, for a re-codification of US law. Figure out what we really want as law, pass that and in that same act repeal every other law and regulation on the books. A bit of wisdom and we can probably do the whole thing in a couple hundred pages…and dispose of tens of thousands of pages which serve only to empower un-elected bureaucrats and give lobbyists the ability to create or expand loopholes for those who have deep pockets and no honor. This isn’t, by the way, about changing the Constitution in any way…just repealing all the laws and regulations we currently have and replacing them with a smaller number of laws, easily understandable by all Americans.
Simplicity and predictability of law is required for their to be justice…and, indeed, respect for law. By doing things like fining someone for hiring “too many” employees, all we’re doing is engendering contempt for law. The next firm so situated will just try to bribe their way out of it (via donations and lobbyists to write special rules just for them), or they’ll open up the firm in a foreign country. The average people are also losing their respect for law…and how can it be otherwise when each of us likely violates several federal laws and regulations each day? Tear down the legal and regulatory structure and replace it…that is the only way we’re going to clear out this part of the mess.
The Obama Plan: Raise Taxes and Fake Spending Cuts
From the AP:
…The president on Monday will announce a proposal that includes repeal of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers, nearly $250 billion in reductions in Medicare spending, $330 billion in cuts in other mandatory benefit programs, and savings of $1 trillion from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the officials said…
…Key features of the proposal:
–$1.5 trillion in new revenue, which would include about $800 billion realized over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax rates for couples making more than $250,000. It also would place limits on deductions for wealthy filers and end certain corporate loopholes and subsidies for oil and gas companies.
–$580 billion in cuts in mandatory benefit programs, including $248 billion in Medicare and $72 billion in Medicaid and other health programs. Other mandatory benefit programs include farm subsidies.
–$430 billion in savings from lower interest payment on the national debt…
According to the linked article, 90% of the Medicare cuts will be in the form of reduced payments to providers – and while beneficiaries are expected to pay more, they won’t pay until 2017…in other words, not until after Obama finishes his putative 2nd term. How much you want to bet that once the providers scream – and/or start refusing Medicare cases – that the cuts never materialize?
A trillion dollars of the “cuts” are from not fighting in Afghanistan…in other words, not money already appropriated and now cut, but a mythical figure placed on the table bearing no relation to what might actually happen in Afghanistan.
Lower interest payments on the national debt? Fine – that’ll work until we hit 16 or 17 trillion in debt and our bond prices go “Greek” on us.
This proposal is nothing but a crock of political horse manure. For cynicism it is hard to beat. We’re on the brink of economic and fiscal disaster and Obama comes up with a plan which doesn’t fix the budget and doesn’t help the economy. All it does is provide him with some MSM/DNC talking points in his effort to make the 2012 campaign about Congress rather than himself (the tax hikes won’t fly and the spending cuts will be resisted by his own party…so when the plan fails to pass, Obama can say, “I tried to do it, but those dratted Republicans stopped me!”). The United States can go drop off a cliff…Obama has more important things to do, like getting re-elected!
2012 really can’t get here fast enough…and it won’t work, Barry. We’re all on to the scam. Twist things as much as you like – go ahead and go through your motions. We’re still going to crush you and liberalism next year. We’ve all had enough of this garbage.
HAT TIP: Mish’s
Did the Administration Pressure a General to Change Testimony?
From the Daily Beast:
…The four-star Air Force general who oversees U.S. Space Command walked into a highly secured room on Capitol Hill a week ago to give a classified briefing to lawmakers and staff, and dropped a surprise. Pressed by members, Gen. William Shelton said the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to make it more favorable to a company tied to a large Democratic donor.
The episode—confirmed by The Daily Beast in interviews with administration officials and the chairman of a congressional oversight committee—is the latest in a string of incidents that have given Republicans sudden fodder for questions about whether the Obama administration is politically interfering in routine government matters that affect donors or fundraisers. Already, the FBI and a House committee are investigating a federal loan guarantee to a now failed solar firm called Solyndra that is tied to a large Obama fundraiser…
There are two questions we need to have answered, over all:
1. Has government policy been for sale? Did the Administration set things up so that their donors and cronies would get the government swag regardless of the needs of the nation?
2. If so, then what did the President know, and when did he know it?
Yes that second question is the “Watergate/impeachment” question. And we need both questions answered. We already see in the preliminary stages of the growing Solyndra scandal that Obama’s people would ensure that donors got special treatment…now we need to know, further, if outright lies were sought or presented by the Administration to ensure their cronies got government largesse. Once we find that out, we then need to know if President Obama was aware of it, and when he became aware. The answers to these questions will tell us if we’ve just got some rather routine government back scratching, or if we’ve got a government which has put the United States up for sale to the highest donor.
Median Male Earns Less Than in 1968
From Zero Hedge:
While the fact that a record number of Americans are living in poverty should not surprise anyone at this point, what should surprise many is that according to Table P-5 of the Census report of (Lack of) Income, the median male is now worse on a gross, inflation adjusted basis, than he was in… 1968! While back then, the median income of male workers was $32,844, it has since risen declined to $32,137 as of 2010. And there is your lesson in inflation 101 (which we assume is driven by the CPI, which likely means that the actual inflation adjusted income decline is far worse than what is even reported). The only winner: women, whose median inflation adjusted income over the same period has increased by 188%. That said, it is still at 65% of what the median male makes. So injustice all around…
Why has this happened? Because since 1968 we have gone about destroying – via taxation, regulation, lawsuits and “nimbyism” – the ability of Americans to make, mine and grow things. We can’t all answer phones in call centers, nor can all of us be computer programmers. We have to make things, mine things and grow things…we have to produce wealth. If we do, then wages rise…if we don’t, then they stay flat or decline.
It is time to restore the American economy be removing the barriers to wealth creation. We have to allow people to work for a living – if we do, then wages will start to rise, fewer people will need government assistance and our overall finances – public and private – will improve. If we don’t, then we die as a nation. It is as stark as that.
And in order to do all that, we must over turn the current Ruling Class – they are in charge of Big Government and Big Corporation. They are very well off and don’t care at all about how the average American lives. They live in a world where struggle is non-existent, the family is unimportant and God is forgotten. As long as they are latched on to us, things cannot improve. Remember that as we go in to 2012…anyone who is unwilling to shake up the status quo is unworthy of support…and the more revolutionaries (ie, TEA Partiers) we can elect, the better.
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