Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Comrade's "Let them eat cake" moment

Haven't been listening much to the news lately. A lot of it is dedicated to Kate and -- who is it? -- one of Princess Diana's kids getting married. I may watch the wedding if it's on at a decent hour (after noon), but I find all the reports on rumors and who's invited and who's not terribly tedious. I wasn't invited. I hadn't really expected to be. I wouldn't go anyway because it would involve flying.

Anyway, this impending wedding and Donald Trump are sucking up all the oxygen and I'm not particularly interested in either one of them.

So I just now saw the clip of the Comrade giving advice on how we should handle the skyrocketing cost of gasoline. He says something like, "Well, buy an electronic car. And, by the way, you could attach a windmill to it while you're at it."

I mean, I'm really beginning to think that this president is having some sort of a breakdown. Is this guy kidding or what?

A. Where the hell do you get the money to buy a way over-priced vehicle that really doesn't go very far? And who would want to anyway?

B. Windmills and solar are useless when it comes to automobiles... And pretty useless otherwise, too. As well as ugly and overpriced. And when it comes to windmills, downright dangerous.

But the Comrade does know how to campaign. Things get tough, the country's going to hell in a hand basket, so the Comrade gets on his walkin' shoes and hits the road to schmooz a bunch of college kids.

What the hell is this?

I almost feel sorry for him. He's in so far over his head. The only problem is, all of us peons out here in the hinterland must suffer the consequences of his bad and/or entirely lacking decision-making.

Buy an electric car?

Really. That's just appalling. For one thing, where do you get the electricity to power up the damn thing? Or doesn't the Comrade's reasoning extend that far into real life? Maybe he thinks electricity just magically comes from the little man who lives in the wall and operates the electric socket.

How about drilling for oil in the USA, moron? Doesn't that sound just a tad more relevant?

Like, did you ever try to make your bed with your cat in the middle of the mattress and refusing to move? "Just work around me." Cats at least have the excuse of not having any real brains... Of course, that might apply to the Comrade, too. But it's not cute when the Comrade does it.

And did hear that Speaker of the House John Boehner suggested eliminating the tax breaks the oil companies get. As a first reaction, I'd have to ask: what the hell has he been smoking?

On second thought, however, since the oil companies aren't allowed to actually produce any oil, maybe they don't deserve any tax breaks. No fault of their own. I do believe the tax breaks are granted to accommodate the cost of exploration. And they aren't allowed to explore, beyond sitting at their desks, looking at maps and staring vacantly into space. So....

Anyways, we've all heard about Louis XVI and his lovely bride, Marie Antoinette. I was even at Versailles once. The tour guide showed us the very room where the peasants were invited to come and watch the queen eat breakfast.

At any rate, people in France were starving. So heavily taxed -- doors and windows were taxed, for example -- and harshly controlled and regulated. Yet Louis failed to heed the advice of Swiss economist Colbert, who recommended that to fix the economy, the king should just "laissez faire" or "leave them alone."

At some point, possibly after La Bastille prison was torn down brick-by-brick by a few disgruntled citizens, someone tried to explain to blockhead Marie that the peasants had no bread. She replied very nonchalantly, "Let them eat cake."

She was reportedly so stupid, so surrounded by yes-people and luxury that it's likely she was unaware that people had no cake, either. And I believe a better translation has revealed that she actually suggested brioche rather than cake...

So Marie Antoinette eventually was beheaded, along with her idiot husband, Louis XVI, all of her children, her ladies in waiting, seamstresses, the lady who powdered her wig and washed her stockings, the people who lived on the same street, all of their relatives, etc etc. Robespierre et. al. were really determined to get rid of every last trace of these pompous morons. That was when La Guillotine rose to prominence as a significant social influence in France.

So anyway, Versailles is pretty "magnificent" in a typically French way -- dripping decoration and ornamentation, all kinds of frills and scrollwork. Though the palace was curious empty of much furniture. The guide noted that most of it had been carried off by revolutionaries, and whatever could be recovered was probably in the Louvre.

Versailles is some ways out of Paris. So after the tour and wandering the grounds at Versailles (Marie had a real, working farm installed on the premises, complete with a peasant family, so that she could have a pastoral view from her window), I was standing with a couple other Americans waiting for the bus to take us back to the city. A Coke machine was conveniently located right there, filled with these little 6-0z., old-fashioned bottles of Coke. And as we're standing there talking, one of the Americans lowers his voice a bit so as not to offend any natives, and said, "Well, I can see why they had a revolution."

Yeah. Right.

So let them drive electric cars!

Save the Republic.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Eating the seed corn, or "Tax the rich"

Well, the donkeys have found a slogan that resonates with middle America: Tax the Rich!

Even seemingly reasonable people don't have a problem with this. I do. And I'm certainly not rich, so not being self-serving here. Anyway, here's three big "challenges" connected to taxing the rich.

1.) Listening to a right-wing radio show the other night and some jerk called in and ranted about Tax the Rich! The host very politely asked the caller, "What do you think the rich do with their money?" The caller responded, "I don't know. Take it to Europe."

Well, that was funny.

Anyway, the host pointed out that if you have $100 million or so in your savings account, you probably don't keep it in your savings account. Maybe you could blow a million a year or so -- and unless your personal fortune is also your company's ledger sheet, blowing a million dollars in a year would keep you pretty busy partying, yachting, taking grammar school classes to DisneyWorld, etc. etc.

Actually, what the rich do is they hire accountants and financial managers. The accountants keep the financial managers honest. The financial managers search relentlessly for promising investments.

Yeah. The excess that the rich don't spend on yachts and diamonds generally is re-invested in the economy somewhere. They buy stocks and bonds, maybe they volunteer "venture capital" for kinda-risky start-ups. (Virtually every single business in the Silicon Valley was a kinda-risky start-up 10 or 15 years ago.)

The point is, the rich don't stuff their mattresses with money or keep it in shoe boxes in their closets. They put it to work. It funds economic growth.This translates into jobs and income and future prospects for growth and development for other non-rich people.

But hell, according to the Comrade and ace economist Paul Krugman, we don't need no steenking economic growth. Like, are we really doing just fine as it is right now, blockheads?

2.) Very simple: Why would you work hard enough to earn more than $250,000.00 in a year if you know the feds are going to take it?

No. You aren't going to hire that extra salesman, make a bid for that really big new account, buy that new manufacturing capacity. No. Because anything you might make over $250,000.00 will bring lower and lower returns -- and you might actually end up in debt on that expansion, rather than increasing your profits.

After all, expansion is always risky. Maybe you buy a $2 million new piece of equipment, and that big new customer dies and his heirs shut down his company, or keep the whole thing in an escrow limbo while they fight over who gets to run it. Things like this happen all the time. And meanwhile, you're stuck with this huge new and expensive capacity.

I mean, really, why work so hard and worry so much and go out on a limb if you don't get to keep the fruits of your labor? We all have a lot more fun things to do in our spare time than figure out how to get a foot in the door in new markets, or develop some new kind of product  -- and then figure out how to sell it to people who've never of it.

So, screw it, you know? Start taking Fridays off.

I should add, this is where much of our economy is right now, just because no one really knows what's going to happen next, what catastrophic new policy the merry marxists are going to unveil. It's almost a knee-jerk reaction -- you get knots in your stomach, too many variables.... no, I'll just keep it in the bank.

3.) This is the real MORAL reason for not taking the rich. IT'S NOT YOUR MONEY!

IT'S NOT YOUR MONEY! IT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE WHO EARNED IT! IT'S NOT YOUR MONEY! IT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE WHO EARNED IT!

Got that?

Additionally, the whole concept of "Tax the Rich" comes with a thorny problem regarding definitions. Like, who are "the rich?" What constitutes "rich."

When I think of the rich, I tend to think about Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, pro football players and movie stars. I mean, people who rake in not $250,000.00 per annum, but those who take in millions over and above what they need to live.

But apparently not enough of those "rich" have enough money, even when collected and dumped into one big pool, to make a dent in the national debt, so the bar is lowered for what constitutes "rich." Now it's $250,000.00. When those people are taxed into poverty, the feds will lower the bar again. In a couple of years, the "rich" will be anyone who makes more than $150,000.00 -- or actually more. See, the number has to be higher than congressional salaries because congress sure as shit ain't going to tax themselves more heavily unless they also build in plenty of loopholes.

Pretty soon, it'll be if you make than 25 cents, you're "rich" -- I mean, after all, compared to Somalians, you're rolling in it! So you make your 25 cents, and the greedy and insatiable feds will want a dime.

Think I'm exaggerating? Look at history.

Save the Republic.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Comrade proves once again, he knows nothing about economics

Interesting couple of days. S&P -- that's Standard & Poor, which is an agency that rates financial instruments, like stocks, bonds, and debt -- didn't actually lower the US's debt rating, but changed it from "stable" to "negative."

Like, if you go to any of the online stock reporting sites -- Yahoo has a free one -- you can look up just about stock and get a rating from S&P or three or four organizations and analysts. It should be rated by stars, or at least as "stable" -- meaning, basically pretty reliable and steady -- or "positive" indicating growth, buy this one! -- or "negative," meaning there's probably internal troubles that will impede the stock/bond/debt to pay off an an investment.

So the US still has a three-star rating, which is pretty good, but with "negative" prospects.

Yeah, really. That's what we've been saying since the socialist won the White House.

The negative thing means that S&P has its doubts about the US being able to pay off its debt. The rating is, at the very least, a warning to lenders:  "Back off. This isn't looking good." S&P apparently also announced that the negative rating was due to our government's pronounced inability to control its spending and its unwillingness to adopt a comprehensive plan to organize its financial affairs.

And some more good news today. Apparently the US plans to sell off its holdings in GM, Government Motors. On TV, they said that if the shares sell at current market value, the US will lose $12 BILLION from what the US paid for them.

Didn't the Comrade announce the GM deal as this glorious, sure-fire way for the US to be rollin' in dough? Just as soon as GM recovered.

GM hasn't really recovered. In addition, apparently the Comrade forgot all about the US stake in GM when he shut down oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and refuses to do anything with the sorry-ass EPA or any other of the official tree-huggers in terms of allowing oil drilling anywhere else in the USA.

However, the Comrade gave Brazil $2 BILLION, and now Columbia $3 BILLION to develop their own oil industries. Then apparently we can buy the oil from them.

Or, maybe the Comrade is just hoping to build some good will with these dictatorial/socialist nations, feathering a nest for himself down there, so when gets run out of the USA, unlike Kadaffy, the Comrade will have someplace else to go.

At any rate, GM's most profitable products were the big trucks and SUVs that use lots and lots of fuel.

So Comrade Butthead, in all his elfin green glory, forget about the GM bailout and has shot the USA in the foot --- ONCE AGAIN.

This man is a perfect idiot.

The one thing he seems to understand is how to campaign.

He's already straying happily from the Oval Office to preach to the underaged about the glories of his socialist regime, in hopes of generating some support.Think that will work for him? I don't.

And that's enough for now.

Save the Republic.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

A vicious, small-minded man

You know, I've been busy, and I just heard on TV that the Comrade actually invited Paul Ryan to wherever the hell the Comrade unveiled his glorious non-plan for the economy. He invited Paul Ryan to attend, and supposedly, Ryan was even seated in the first row.

For the uninvolved, Paul Ryan laid out a proposal for the 2012 budget in the House last week. Ryan's plan includes a restructuring of Medicare -- which, by the way, will not have any impact on people now on Medicare. The change involves giving people something like vouchers so that they can buy their own coverage from privately-owned insurance companies. And it wouldn't affect anyone who is right now 55 years old or older -- though I believe I'd much prefer Ryan's plan that Medicare as it is.

Ryan's plan also repeals the Comrade's socialized medicine scheme and also rearranges a few other things in the budget. Ryan says it would reduce the US budget by $6.8 TRILLION dollars over the next 10 years.

So, anyway, that's the background. The Comrade's "re-introduced" (shall we say) 2012 budget seems to be a response to Ryan. But absolutely nobody, not even the rabid socialists in congress or anywhere else liked the Comrade's first budget. The consensus was that it was a complete waste of the paper it was printed on.

So the Comrade invites Paul Ryan to this stupid affair at some college -- the Comrade playing to a "soft" crowd with limited life experience no doubt because everyone else is on to him. And during his speech, the Comrade accuses Paul Ryan of kicking out the crutches of little kids and turning seniors out into the snow. I mean, it was nothing but a political rant -- no other substance to it. It was an attack on Paul Ryan.

The Comrade did this once before. A couple years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that if groups like labor unions can donate unlimited funds to political candidates of their choice, then corporations should be able to do the same.

Apparently that really pissed off the Comrade. Now he's got to pretend to like the Fat Cats.

So during the State of the Union speech, with several members of the Supreme Court sitting in the chamber, the Comrade makes some snide and insulting comment about the Supreme Court. A comment that mainly indicated that the Comrade really didn't understand the court's decision at all. Just like his comments about Ryan's budget show that he is completely ignorant of economics.

But these incidents aren't accidents, you know. The Comrade loves to haul people up on the carpet and tries to publicly humiliate them.

What a small, vicious, nasty little man the Comrade is. What twisted, mean little soul.

It boggles the mind.

Save the Republic.

How much destruction can one man do in four years?

Saw only the first part of the Comrade's speech yesterday about his New! Improved! 2012 budget.

I don't really see any changes from his old and unimproved socialist power-grab budget.

Mostly his speech revealed a really ruthless and blind ambition. I mean seriously -- all the obsessive and soul-less ambition of [pick-any-dictator.] This man has done as much as he could from the Oval Office to ruin the USA, kick us when we're down, outlaw exercise of our rights, and is going as far he possibly can to destroy our future.

But he sure does want to be re-elected. And apparently all of the above is his platform.

And stupid ass-wipes like Durbin, Reid, Paul Krugmann, and all the rest of the merry marxists competely support him.

I don't get it.

It's not like, "Oh, well, they just have a different view of things that's just a valid."

No, it isn't "just as valid." Their view is dismantling the USA and destroying our freedom. You would have to be actually blind and deaf to fail to see that. I mean, do the people with the jack-boots and hoods actually have to show up at the door in the middle of the night before they catch on?

How can anyone support that?

I just don't get it. And must add, I'm really shocked that the Comrade has the balls to stand up in public and do his rant, pretending that he still believes in all his crap. I don't think he does. He just wants power.

Know what? The only way you can gain power over others is to persuade them to give it to you. OR, you hold a gun to their head. Those are the choices.

Comrade's done the first tactic so far, but I fear the second is on its way -- with the Senate majority, the chittering apes of the SEIU and UAW, and Ivy League cement-heads greasing the skids for him.

You know what, though? History hath shown that those people and organizations who support a ruthless tyrant on his way to power are always the first people that tyrant eliminates -- because to him, once he's had the use of them, they represent only competition.

Save the Republic.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Comrade's budget: try, try again?

Haven't had a lot of time to write here, and not a lot of time now. But just a few thoughts.

So the Republicans got $38.5 billion cut from this year's budget, which runs to October this year. That seems like a lot of money. I mean, imagine if you had to pay off a debt of $38.5 billion by October? (Yeah, cyanide might be a viable solution.) Anyway, compared to the total the feds spend, and compared to the debt, that $38.5 billion is sort like a fire in the sun. Know what I mean? A spit in the ocean, etc. etc.

It hasn't been passed yet, either. But it has to pass by Thursday, or we'll be facing another shut down situation.

So, the Comrade already submitted a budget for 2012 with no cuts at all. He seems to think that money grows on trees. Maybe the cherry trees? Maybe that's why Reid made such a big fuss over the Cherry Blossom Festival.

In the meanwhile, Paul Ryan submitted a budget that offers some real cuts, and in entitlements, where they're needed the most. His budget doesn't raise taxes, and a lot of buttheads on the left have their panties in a twist because Ryan isn't sticking it to the rich.

Actually, Ryan's plan does make significant demands on the rich -- and on everyone else who can pay their own way. In case no one noticed, his suggestions for Medicare reform includes a kind of "means testing." That means if you can pay for your health care, you don't get any freebies. But apparently that's not good enough for the merry marxists. They want to see anyone who can pay their own way hobbled, gagged, and dangled over the side of the 12th Street Bridge in a burlap sack. That's what you get for being non-pathetic!!

Anyway, so the Comrade is supposed to be on TV tomorrow night to propose yet another budget for 2012. This one apparently addresses the issue of the nation's bankruptcy -- something he overlooked in the first try.

Let me guess, he will try to restore the so-called "Bush Tax Cuts," backtracking on that lost battle and trying for a win. He'll suggest raising the federal tax on gasoline -- I mean it's only $4.00+ a gallon now. Not enough yet to make any reasonable person go out an buy a GM Festivus or whatever it is for $40,000.00. But any real cuts? No, I doubt it. Oh, maybe he'll advise the feds to Xerox on both sides of paper. Maybe they'll save a couple hundred bucks on that. And then that silly and desperate-looking Pluff person can go on the Sunday morning shows and pitch "shared sacrifice" over that.

Somehow, this one image keeps coming to mind -- a little dog running down the street after a racing fire engine.

Guess who is who in that scenario? Who's leading and who follows? And does the little dog understand that the fire engine has a real purpose?

Save the Republic

Friday, April 8, 2011

Reid the whiner -- won't act to prevent shut down

Well, Nero Reid's back on TV again, whining about the dire consequences of shutting down the government. People will miss the Cherry Blossom Festival? I don't think so. I've seen the cherry trees, and they're all outside.

And there's a very simple solution, Butthead Nero -- vote for one of the two bills the House has submitted to you fools in the Senate.

Real simple, you blockhead. Just vote for what the House has already passed.

Or you can go on whining.

Whatever you're most comfortable with, dope.

Save the Republic.

For greener government?

Keep seeing this clip of the Comrade telling some guy that he should trade in his SUV for another car.

Well, Comrade, I'll do that -- just as soon as I see you driving around in a Prius, surrounded by Secret Service on bicycles.

Does that work for you?

Works for me. Butthead.

Save the Republic.

Still standing...

Well, John Boehner is supposed to speak to the press in a few minutes, but I had a couple things to add to what I wrote last night.

Mainly, I forgot Michelle Bachman on my list of those to whom we owe a debt of gratitude.

Remember Michelle at some committee hearing or another standing up and asking, "Where in the Constitution is the basis for that?"

And the dems looking at each other going, "Consti-what?" Checking their agendas, trying to figure out exactly what it all meant.

And what about Sarah Palin, who no longer holds elective office, but who took an awful lot of heat for being attractive, articulate, competent, and a conservative.

Also just found out that one of the so-called riders in the 2011 budget bill -- or maybe the one-week extension? -- restricts the EPA.

The EPA currently believes it has the authority to go door-to-door throughout the USA and measure cow farts, and probably human farts as well (can't think of a more appropriate task for them) and impose whatever kind of "tax" -- called a "penalty" -- they want. They'll be showing up at your front door -- no doubt wiht a warrant, if necessary -- to check all your light bulbs. All in the name of global warming. Mind you, this same idea -- crap-n-tax -- was put before congress and even the dems didn't pass it, so the EPA is moving on its own.

The EPA is like having a serial killer on the loose. At the very least, all those people should be kept on very tight leashes, if not kennelled. Hmmm, Guantanamo comes to mind....

Well, Boehner was just on TV for about 10 seconds and said nothing.

Nero Reid is in front of the senate right now, telling the nation how he wouldn't pay to take his wife and daughter to the doctor for cancer screening and blood pressure exams. He would expect the federal government to assume that responsibility for him.

I say he's a terrible husband and father, and not typical. Or more likely, just completely senile.

Enough for now.

Save the Republic. If that means shutting down the government, I'm behind you.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Thank you Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, et. al.

Don't know if the feds are going to shut down or not tomorrow, but I do want to extend my sincerest gratitude to Speaker John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan -- and those lonely Republicans in the Senate -- thank you for standing our ground. Thank you for sticking up for the American people. We needed you and you came through for us, just by not folding under the silly sappy melodrama perpetrated by Pazzo Pelosi, Nero Reid, and others -- including the Comrade.

Last year, one of the hardest things I -- and I'm sure many in the Tea Party and other just ordinary citizens never involved much in politics -- last year we all sat here and watched Pazzo Pelosi, Nero Reid, The Fudd + Dudd duo, poltical whore Mary Landrieu, addle-brained Ben Nelson from Nebraska and others, and even the Twit Sisters from Maine, selling out the USA. For what? For the impossible promise of "free health care." No.No. No such thing as a free lunch. Rather, if that bill stands (which ain't likely) we'll end up with poor quality care, years-long waiting lists to see a physician, and a tax burden that destroys all hope.

And the worst part, the very worst part, was sitting in the living room and watching it on TV, with no way to stop it. Remember Arlen Specter's Town Hall with Sebelius or whatever the hell her name is, the nanny state's chief nanny? Remember -- those buttheads from DC telling us what they're going to do for us -- and completely deaf to the public will? People shouting themselves hoarse, and these complete blockheads just going on their merry way and God damn the public.

How many of those jerks are still in office, by the way?

How about Pete Stark? There's a piece of work. He's very upfront telling his constituents that they're a bunch of stupid idiots who require his superior guidance. He makes me retch, actually.

What I remember absolutely the most was a Town Hall put on by Grassley in Iowa. Some guy in the crowd, just an ordinary citizen, stood up and said, "You're supposed to be protecting our rights!" And Grassley, actually, has been pretty good about that.

Saw a video on YouTube with Paul Ryan and some creep called Becerra at the Blair House talks on the socialized medicine bill. The Comrade playing mediator there, putting on his "I am the president" show. Becerra starts some rap about representing the American people, and Paul Ryan says, "We were all sent here to represent the American people."

Just in case the blockhead, power-mad dems forgot -- and by accounts, they did. Completely. "We'll just bribe that whore from Louisiana, Mary Landrieu, and Nelson with a skull full of manure, and we'll shove through this piece of shit."

Meanwhile, lunatic twinkle-toes Pazzo Pelosi positively orgiastic about passing a major piece of legislation without reading it.

And nothing we could do about it.

So, thank you, Speaker Boehner and everyone else who grew a set and who are refusing to let this nation be streamrolled by a bunch of silly punks with hitlerian pretensions -- that is the demented Nero Reid, weiner Weiner, and even Debbie (bet she spells that "Debi" with a little heart for a dot over the i) Wasserman-whatever, who are propagating lies about the elderly eating dog food and all that.

You know what? The USA was alive and well -- much better off than it is now -- when there was no Social Security or Medicare.

In short, you stupid liberals, we don't need your sorry asses. And in fact, we're much better off without you. You are useless pretenders and opportunists and a disgrace on this nation.

But thank you, Speaker Boehner, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and others who haven't forgotten what America is supposed to be about.

Save the Republic.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Comrade's nose is gonna grow

The Comrade gave me a good laugh. He's still on TV talking. He started his talk with, "Since I've been in office, we've been looking for ways to reduce federal spending."

My face hurts, laughing so hard. I almost couldn't pick myself up off the floor. I mean, you got to admit, that's a real whopper.

He's such a bald-faced liar, it's amazing. But I guess all he does is read the teleprompter. He's not responsible for anything he says. Maybe the script was left over from the Bush Administration. Maybe the Tea Party nefariously snuck in the lies and misrepresentation. Whaddaya think?

He talks now about all these chats he's having with Boehner and congress over the budget. Yeah, he's so willing to talk, so open to cooperation.

Where the hell he was when he last year when his henchmen, Pelosi and Reid should have passed a 2011 budget? Was he talking to anyone but them? The Republicans NEVER heard from him. Not a peep. Was the Comrade doing anything then but suggesting new ways to bribe congressmen to shove through this bullshit socialized medicine bill? And did these marxist blockheads do anything about a 2011 budget? No. Too busy applauding their success at wrecking the nation, waving around giant hammers, pretending they'd been spit at and cussed -- such noble, noble victims. What a huge load of crap.

And where the hell was the Comrade, when it really mattered?

Bowing to the Saudi king? Rabble rousing in Egypt? Insulting Queen Elizabeth? Displaying false humility to the King of Sweden? Basking in the specious glory of being the Golden Boy to save the earth?

However, the American people took care of it all in the November election -- throwing out the sorry asses of the suck-ups and pandering sycophants who voted for the Big Marxist Dream.

So now Comrade Butthead comes on TV, hat in hand, begging for "an adult conversation." But let's face it, he's not capable of an adult conversation. Far as I know, that's not part of the communist dogma. He'd be more at home waving a hammer-n-sickle banner and beating a little tom-tom, in between designating his Astro-Turf SEIU in red shirts this time to try to destroy at least one state government... for starters.

Comrade, I'm afraid your reputation is already made. We know you're a liar of monumental proportions. We know you're a marxist socialist. Too bad they don't have a Nobel Prize for that. How about an Ignoble Prize? He'd win every time.

Too late now, suckah, to make excuses and pretend you give a damn. We've seen the other side of your lying face.

And I'd rather the government shut down than this phony clown gets funding for any of his bribes-for-votes schemes.

Save the Republic.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Dems name new scapegoat

Interesting news day so far.

Apparently the Comrade has announced plans to run again, and he's got a huge war chest. After freeing the unions from any obligation to fund their members' health care and other benefits (see the earlier blog, below), now all the union dues can be funneled into the swampy mire of the Comrade's campaign fund. I mean, what else does Trumpka have to do with his members' money?

Think about that, you decent, honorable union members who haven't been tainted by the poison they swill  up from the trough of federal bribery. If any of you remain.

Then Eric Holder, who is without doubt the most incompetent and addle-brained Attorney General I've ever seen in my lifetime, gets on TV and says the 9/11 terrorists are going to be tried by military tribunal.

After two years of threatening to try them in civil courts -- against the apparent will of the survivors and their families.

And guess what? Holder blames congress for this.

Sorry, give me a moment, I have coffee shooting out my nose.

So I guess that will be the campaign mantra. George W is long gone. So instead of campaigning about any kind of policy -- SINCE NO U.S. CITIZEN LIKES THE COMRADE'S POLICIES SO FAR -- they've got to find someone to blame for the freaking mess these marxists have made of the nation.

It's all the fault of the Tea Party, doncha know?

It's not like the Comrade has seen his marxist bullshit fail and has no place else to turn to try to make any decision that would solve any kind of problem. He's tapped out. Das Kapital never did address the inevitable fact of its own failure. So the Comrade is at a total loss.

All he can do is blame the people who oppose him. Though, as I recall (with horror, I might add) the Comrade owned the White House and both houses of congress for two years -- and did all they could to beat us all down, steal our rights and our private property.

Yet somehow we Americans just bounced right back, bloody but unbowed.

Hey, Comrade -- WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE TEA PARTY. Go ahead, continue to insult us. See if that works for you this time around.

And We, the People, are going to take back the White House. I promise you.

Save the Republic.

Socialized medicine already bailing out unions, municipalities

This is from:  FACT SHEET: The Affordable Care Act’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program
The Early Retiree Reinsurance Program will provide much-needed financial relief for employers so retirees can get quality, affordable insurance starting this year.

Quality, Affordable Care for Early Retirees
The percentage of large firms providing workers with retiree coverage has dropped from 66 percent in 1988 to 31 percent in 2008.

The Affordable Care Act provides $5 billion in financial assistance to employers to help them maintain coverage for early retirees age 55 and older who are not yet eligible for Medicare.

Employers can use the savings to either reduce their own health care costs, provide premium relief to their workers and families or a combination of both.
Funny, as I'm writing this, Stuart Varney just came on Fox to talk about it. He says that, to date, the UAW (United Auto Workers) has been the largest recipient of money from this bill. Jeez, they only make about $50.00 an hour, with "cadillac" benefits that cost so much they bankrupted GM and Dodge/Chrysler. Yeah, they need the help.

I'm so glad I get to work my tired old butt to the bone so these blockheads can take an early retirement. And I can't afford insurance. All of the money I could use to buy insurance (and/or save for retirement) goes to the feds to buy votes for the Comrade and his marxist cronies.

Don't believe me? Think I'm just a pigheaded "extremist" whining and propagandizing? Check out this government web site that lists all recipients of these goodies, state by state. A few very large corporations, many, many unions, and many, many "City of...," "County of..." "Village of..."

So I guess this bullshit is one of the things the Wisconsin legislature -- and Ohio, among others -- is trying to combat. As well as being a sugar-tit the unions don't want to give up. Hey, keep beating those tom-toms, you blood-sucking parasites.

Wanna see who's sucking up the funds in your state? The feds have provided us a list at:

http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/early_retiree_reinsurance_program.html

So these jerks are collecting benefits -- and racking up costs -- before anyone else sees anything but higher insurance premiums and taxes from this bullshit legislation.

Yes, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, and all you merry marxists, by all means, lets pay off your union supporters to guarantee that SOMEBODY will vote for you in 2012. Too bad the dems can only attract voters by buying them off. It's a significant indication of just  how evil the dems are, how destructive they are. How corrupt.

And they stick non-union taxpayers with the bill.

You like this arrangement? I'd say "write your congressman," but in Illinois, for one state, that's a total joke.

Save the Republic.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Maybe US has a future after all

Watched "Fox News Sunday" to see Paul Ryan talking about his long-term budget. An added bonus was seeing Marco Rubio, senator from Florida.

I love these two guys. They make we want to live longer, knowing that they'll keep America free and a good place for human beings.

Had to laugh a little at moderator Chris Wallace. Paul Ryan told him his proposed budget would cut more than $4 TRILLION in federal spending over 10 years, because it includes a restructuring of Medicare/Medicaid and probably of Social Security, though they didn't talk about that. Anyway, Chris Wallace looked genuinely surprised. Nicely surprised. And I expected Paul Ryan, with his unquenchable optimism, to say something like, "Cool, huh?" Paul Ryan, even while he was speaking about budget caps, kept giving Chris Wallace this reassuring little smile, like, "Honestly. It's all true."

But my favorite part was when Chris Wallace asked if the dems were going to "demagog" the issue and try to use it against the Republicans in next year's election, Paul Ryan said he was sure they would. However, he doesn't care, because he's doing what he believes will work to save the nation. He said it's not a choice between going on as we are or changing -- because the USA cannot go on as it is. That simple.

Then came Marco Rubio, who's cut from similar cloth as Paul Ryan. Marco Rubio already looks like he could be president. He has that gravitas. And he's not going to support increasing the spending limit unless he can get big budget cuts from the dems. He's also not too crazy about the idea of supporting Libyan rebels until we know who they are and what their plans are.

Marco Rubio also has a really great smile and no plans to run in 2012. Thank heavens, because he -- like Paul Ryan -- could use a little more experience before going for the something like the presidency. And they are not in it for the power and glory. They're trying to make a real difference, trying to make the world a better place. Honestly.

In fact, both of these guys are so good-natured, so straightforward and self-assured, so REASONABLE.... I begin to see light at the end of this dark tunnel of "social justice" and "redistribution of wealth."

See, I'm not hard to please. Give me two good-looking guys who have some common sense and a commitment to human freedom and happiness. Is that too much to ask?

And compare and contrast these guys to people like Chucklehead Schumer and Nero Reed.

Good grief, do we have to?

I mean, Chucklehead and Nero are so feebly adamant about seeing the USA sink into a mire of "we were only trying to help," suffocating debt, and what Monroe, I believe, would call "foreign intrigues and entanglements." Chucklehead and Nero have both been w-a-a-a-y too long in Washington. They've lost any sense of perspective, any linkage to the real world. After all, it's not their money they're spending. It's no skin off their butts.All they care about, apparently, are the privileges that go with office. All they have to do is make a dozen more promises to a few more "special interest groups" to buy a few more votes. They don't care what they do to us or to the nation, as long as they get to strut around and make speeches. They're short-sighted blockheads with no sense of principle, no ethics.They don't care about the USA, except as a bully pulpit for their little (little??) hobbyhorses.

But, anyway, now with Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio -- among others, but these two stand out -- I'm beginning to believe that America might have a future after all.

Maybe I'll quit smoking so I can live to see it.

Save the Republic.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

57% support government shut-down

A recent Rasmussen poll indicates that 57% of respondents would be OK with a shut-down of the federal government, as long as it included deep cuts in the federal budget.

57% is more people than voted for the Comrade, and way higher than those who continue to approve of his cheerleadership.

Apparently the latest scare tactic the dems are employing goes something like, "O-o-o-o-h, kids, if the federal government shuts down, you won't get your income tax refund check."

Does that mean the IRS will shut down?

Good, then we don't have to freakin' file income tax at all, do we?

These people should look at all sides before they make stupid threats. Usually there's a sunnier side.

Shutting down the feds is bad for the feds. It's Spring Break for you and me. Even the stock market is booming in anticipation.

But wait... the reservation on the shut-down is that it has to be accompanied by PERMANENT cuts in federal spending.

Yippee! So if the feds shut down, only part of it will ever come back.

I think I must have died and gone to heaven.

Save the Republic.