Archive for 18 Feb 2009

Kalifornia Screamin’

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 in Axis of Idiots, Conservatism, Economics, Education, Illegal Immigration, Politics, Socialism
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California spends $6,245,000,000 annually on illegal aliens that don’t put one dime towards this support. The support comes in the form of health care, education, incarceration, and welfare. Hey! I know how California can save six billion dollars! Stop supporting illegal immigration! Hell, that alone would solve most of California’s budget problems. That and you could cut taxes for corporations and small businesses which would provide jobs. Cut some of the government bureaucracy, say 10% per annum for the next four years, and I think we’d have a winning budget. I would also cut the education boondoggle by 10% per annum as well. They are overpaid for the services that they provide. In fact, if you cut the education bureaucracy by that amount each year, you might actually get somewhere with educating children in this state. Education before administration. TM That should be the motto.

At least one county is starting on the right track:

Sacramento Cuts Free Health Care For Illegal Immigrants

Struggling with a $55 million budget deficit, a northern California county became the state’s first to eliminate free non-urgent health care for illegal immigrants and a civil rights group was quick to label the move unconstitutional.

Like many counties throughout California, Sacramento’s public clinics offer illegal aliens free medical care at an annual cost of millions of dollars. Sacramento County had five such clinics but two were closed as a result of the budget crunch and the remaining three will check for the immigration status of all patients.

The move, approved 3-2 by the Board of Supervisors, is expected to save the ailing county about $2.4 million dollars. With a population of around 1.4 million, Sacramento County is California’s prime agricultural region which for years has benefited from the cheap labor of illegal immigrants and lax enforcement of immigration laws.

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Obama’s Secret Administration

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 in Comarade Obama, Neo-Marxists, Politics, Socialism
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Obama’s secret administration. Transparency my ass. Whatever he can do to keep the masses in the dark about is overt socialist/green agenda, he will. America will wake up one day and ask WTF?

Funny how you libs howled at Bush and Co. yet not a peep from you fuckers now.

So much for transparency

Remember Barack Obama’s pledge to make this the Most Transparent Administration Evah?  Josh Gerstein at Politico notices a few items that seem to have slipped by the national media, thanks to a lack of openness on the part of Obama’s communications team.  Obama issued three executive orders and a handful of regulations without ever announcing them:

In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire.

Despite the intense scrutiny a president gets just after the inauguration, Obama managed to take all these actions with nary a mention from the White House press corps.

The moves escaped notice because they were never announced by the White House Press Office and were never placed on the White House web site.

They came to light only because the official paperwork was transmitted to the Federal Register, a dense daily compendium of regulatory actions and other formal notices prepared by the National Archives. They were published there several days after the fact.

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The GOP and Me

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 in Conservatism, Politics, Republicans
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I ain’t happy with the GOP either. You knuckleheads are more left than I care to see. The Republican Party is in sore need of fixing. The message isn’t there, the deeds aren’t there, the main principles that the Republican Party has been known for since Lincoln, aren’t there.

Less government, more freedom, and free market principles.Moderate Republicans need not apply.

Less government. More Freedom. Yeah, I know I am Libertarian at heart, but I gotta hang my hat somewhere.

You want my support? Earn it.

Hey, GOP… Where’s the plan?

After two successive election blowouts, the Grand Old Party — my party — sits in the minority. Republicans have held meetings and conference calls trying to figure out what went wrong and where to go from here. Hint… after such election beatings, there’s pretty much nowhere to go but up. However, how do we get there?

What I’ve been seeing so far has not filled me with confidence that the Republican Party has 1) gotten the message of the recent election losses, and 2) understands what to do next. Yes, there are some good signs that conservatives still have principles, such as when every Republican member of the U.S. House stood united against the outrageous, budget-busting, massive government intervention known as the stimulus bill. But, there has to be more to Republican recovery than just opposition. Americans want action. So… what’s the plan?

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More Econ 101

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 in Axis of Idiots, Comarade Obama, Congress, Economics, Media, Neo-Marxists, Politics, Socialism, Stupid People
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Since by all appearances, Congress has not taken Economics 101, I must keep revisiting this issue. It’s your fault, you voted for these morons.

A little Econ 101 from the good professor of economics himself:

Economic Miracle

by Walter E. Williams

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Why? It is impossible for anyone to possess the knowledge that would be necessary for such an undertaking. At the risk of boring you, let’s go through a small example that proves such knowledge is impossible.

Imagine you are trying to understand a system consisting of six elements. That means there would be 30, or n(n-1), possible relationships between these elements. Now suppose each element can be characterized by being either on or off. That means the number of possible relationships among those elements grows to the number 2 raised to the 30th power; that’s well over a billion possible relationships among those six elements.

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And from his good friend the other professor of economics:

Upside Down Economics

by Thomas Sowell

From television specials to newspaper editorials, the media are pushing the idea that current economic problems were caused by the market and that only the government can rescue us.

What was lacking in the housing market, they say, was government regulation of the market’s “greed.” That makes great moral melodrama, but it turns the facts upside down.

It was precisely government intervention which turned a thriving industry into a basket case.

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ACORN and Obama

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 in Axis of Idiots, Comarade Obama, Media, Neo-Marxists, Politics, Socialism, Stupid People
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Your tax dollars at work. ACORN is a huge arm of the liberal party in this country. Thanks to their shenanigans in the last election, plus their continuing lawless behavior and agenda, America will suffer even more. God I hate liberals, forgive me, but I do.

ACORN and Obama: Together Again

by Michelle Malkin

Fresh off the trillion-dollar porkulus bill signing in Denver, President Obama immediately launched into his next New Raw Deal expansion: a massive mortgage entitlement program forcing lenders to refinance at an initial cost of $50 billion to $100 billion. That’s in addition to the bipartisan-supported $50 billion in the “stimulus” bill to bail out homeowners underwater on their mortgages and the $2 billion in “neighborhood stabilization” funds to alleviate the foreclosure crisis.

In tandem with the White House Bad Borrowers Bailout, Obama’s old friends at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) are launching a new campaign of their own: the “Home Savers” campaign. What a coinky-dinky, huh? As with most of the bully tactics of the radical left-wing group, it ain’t gonna be pretty. They are the shock troops on the streets doing the dirty work while the Community Organizer-in-Chief keeps his delicate hands clean.

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Related:

NY Times Plants Pro-ACORN Propaganda

New York Times metro-beat reporter Fernanda Santos seems to truly believe that the left-wing housing activist group ACORN is some bottom-up citizens organization conducting a new civil rights “resistance movement” against unfair foreclosures. That’s judging by her credulous story, “A Bid to Link Arms Against Eviction — Grass-Roots Effort Takes Shape To Support Families Facing Foreclosure.”

There’s nothing in Santos’s story Wednesday about the fact that the leader of this alleged “grass-roots effort,” ACORN, receives funding from the federal government through various federal programs and third-party groups, or that it registered thousands and thousands of ineligible voters during the last presidential campaign. Instead, readers were treated to 1,260 words of “power to the people” sloganeering straight from ACORN without a single dissenting voice.

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Jobs? What Jobs?

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 in Axis of Idiots, Comarade Obama, Congress, Economics, Socialism
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It’s about the jobs? Some jobs, those that government provides, are generally useless to the public at large. They do nothing to stimulate growth, or quality of life that the free market has and continues to do.

Most of the garbage in this bill that does actually create a job is in the construction industry. What about that poor slob that is a car salesman? How does that help him? Just sayin’.

Obama’s Stimulus Creates Useless Jobs

by Ben Shapiro

There’s one reason, and one reason only, that President Barack Obamas stimulus passed so swiftly through Congress: Most Americans are worried about their jobs. And Barack Obama promises to save or create four million jobs. Even Obama’s most ardent opponents embrace the make jobs programs embedded in the stimulus. Construction projects that put people to work, that fits the bill, Sarah Palin told Greta Van Susteran of Fox News. But these big, huge, expanded social programs that’s not right, that’s not fair.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats get it. The problem isnt just the pork barrel social welfare spending. It’s not merely the redistributionist scheme disguised as tax cuts. The public relations backbone of this bill — government spending on our nations crumbling infrastructure — is misguided. While the country’s infrastructure may need revamping, this sort of spending will not stimulate the economy. It will not create the kind of jobs Americans need.

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Comparing FDR and Obama

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 in Comarade Obama, Economics
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A great comparison of FDR and Obama. The similarities are staggering. It’s not a hard thing to do.

Uncanny, Disturbing Historical Parallels

by David Limbaugh

Recently, I reread the chapters on the New Deal in Larry Schweikart’s superb “A Patriot’s History of the United States” to review parallels with Barack Obama’s radical economic agenda. Here is an eye-opening, side-by-side sampling, with Schweikart’s observations on FDR and the New Deal, along with mine on President Obama and his policies.

Schweikart wrote, “During the campaign, FDR, a man whose presidency would feature by far the largest expansion of the federal government ever, called for a balanced budget and accused Hoover of heading the ‘greatest spending Administration in all our history.'”

Obama’s stimulus bill sets frightening new records for federal spending. But while campaigning, he said, “I’m running for president because I believe we can choose our own economic destiny to go another four years with the same reckless fiscal policies that have busted our budget, wreaked havoc in our economy, and mortgaged our children’s future on a mountain of debt; or we can restore fiscal responsibility in Washington.”

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