A couple of democrats have made some interesting statements over the last couple days or so. It seems they're getting to really dislike democracy in general, that is, letting other people beside themselves engage in the process of government decision-making.
Let's start with the governess of North Carolina, Beverly Perdue. Believe it was yesterday she was giving a speech somewhere and suggested that the US suspend the next congressional election for a couple of years so that congress could get something done without the pressure of having to answer to voters -- or rather run for re-election. She added she thought this is a discussion the nation should have.
And last week apparently Perer Orszag, former Director of the Congresssional Budget Office, appointed by the Comrade, now shuffling papers at CitiBank or some other failed-and-bailed financial institution, noted that he believes the USA would be better off if we demoted congress to the status of historical artifact and just let federal bureaucrats make all the decisions.
Since removing her foot from her mouth, Governess Perdue has apparently spent all of her time explaining that she was only joking.
Yeah. We get it. Ha. Ha. But don't mess with my democracy, blockhead, know what I mean?
Orszag seems to be just purely an idiot. Or a power-mad sociopath. Take your pick. His remarks were well thought out and may have even been written down. So he's a fascist on purpose. Or you might even say, on a mission.
And both of these blockheads are democrats.
Yeah, running the USA is lots of fun when you have the support of both houses and the White House and can just ignore the population, isn't it? Whoopee! Hey, let's declare a whopping big tax increase!!
Hey! Get the neighbors out here... Want the feds to dig you a swimming pool, Jake? I can get you the money! Hell, I can get you a high-toned, certified union crew out here to get that taken care of while we still got the warm weather! Aren't you glad you voted for me? Aren't you going to vote for me again? Whoa, but heck, we give up on that silly democracy thing... so I guess I'll just hold this office for the rest of my natcherl life! Screw the voters! They got nothin to say about it anymore!
And while we're at it, why not compel every US citizen to buy an electric car? I mean, hey, it's "good for them." They're just too stoopid too figure that out on their own.
So it may be that Peter Orszag was the guy who claimed socialized medicine would "save money." The way he calculated that was to leave the pay for doctors and other health care workers out of the legislation. Hey, the CBO doesn't write the bills. We just add up the numbers they give us.
While we're at it, I think every citizen should have their own private wind turbine. Wouldn't you like that? Snap! It's yours!! Now you can spend the rest of your life trying to get it to work... in your spare time, when you're not trying to figure out how to pay for it.
And we're taking away your guns. Snap! Just sign my little name on the dotted line here. Done! Now only criminals will be armed! Now you'll be safe and sound for sure, according to my fantasy version of The Way Life Should Be.
Here, Pazzo, here's $7 billion for your brother-in-law, who's been paving the desert with solar panels. Good job! Hey! Just keep those taxpayers dollars going to to your friends and family! I'm sure you've still got people on the take in Maryland. Don't forget them! We may need them to harass a few corporate CEOs. The voters, American citizens, don't need to know what we're doing! Uselss little peons, anyway. We can squash them like bugs! With one stroke of the pen!
And while we're at it, let's just draw up an executive order to do away with that troublesome Bill of Rights thing. Who needs that? Certainly no one inside the Beltway. All this crap about personal liberty and all -- it just gets in the way. So ineffecient and old fashioned, has no place in a computerized world. I mean why let the Little People piddle around trying to decide where to send their kids to school and what they should make for dinner when we in the federal government already have all the answers?
All this individuality crap is just such a bother...
Is it just me, or does it seem like these blockheads are incapable of learning? I mean, they really have nothing inside their heads but clay. Or maybe they're simply totally and completely ignorant of any human history whatsoever. I suppose they think we fought on the wrong side in WWII. 'Course, WWII, that was when? Didn't that have something to do with York and Lancaster? Or was that Joan of Arc?
Things are so simple when you don't have a brain. And got to say it: Ignorance is Bliss.
Any wonder why the nation's so screwed up with morons like this running things?
Save the Republic.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
When Saul Alinski guides your presidential campaign....
Have you ever been curious what it would look like if a community organizer ran for president of the USA? Let's take a look at the Comrade's campaign thus far, no doubt inspired by Rules for Radicals:
Sound like a plan? Sounds like the Comrade's plan.
Does any of this serve the country? Does it serve anyone? Is this "stirring the base?" If so, what the hell kind of "base" does the Comrade have? Kinda like those loonies who dress up in ski masks and black Spandex, like Saddam Hussein's Mujahaddin, and show up at the international economic conferences to break windows and set fires.
Is this what the Comrade wants for America? Better question: Is this what you want for America?
Save the Republic.
- Develop a forthrightly marxist economic policy and back it up with class-warfare slogans like "Tax the Rich." Preach that to a population who wants to be rich and is getting sick of seeing the federal government pour its hard-earned tax dollars down the black hole of "green" technology that no one wants.
- Get a bunch of women with flabby upper arms in tanks tops -- to show off their tattoos -- to picket the NYSE. They'll need signs, too. Make sure they cuss at the cops, too. You want to get them on TV, hopefully as the cops stack their limp carcasses in a paddy wagon.
- Instruct your brain-dead, Kool-Aid drinking Senate Majority leader to table any useful and bipartisan proposals that come from a Republican-dominated House, just because it's a Republican-dominated House. Never mind WHY it's a Republican-dominated House.
- Have your communications guy, David Fluff, appear on a national political TV show, like Fox Sunday, with a hair cut like Adolf Hitler. Or no. Scratch that. Probably not a good move.
- Talk endlessly about supporting teachers, construction workers, and veterans -- all union workers or people on the public payroll/dole, right? That's supposed to inspire support from middle class self-employed/unemployed and business owners?
- Ignore all foreign policy issues and questions. Just get on Air Force One and fly to the Midwest. Transfer to the million-dollar, Canadian-made campaign bus for some kind of whistle-stop tour.
- After you've berated rich "fat cats" for your whole career, insult them further by asking them to attend your $35,000-per-plate fundraiser. Or maybe they'll be in for a big tax audit?
- Get an ugly fat film-maker to threaten the middle class with turning loose a bunch of unemployed, illegal alien laborers on them. Or someone. This fantasy "downtrodden class" we hear so much about. Moore is just an idiot. I suspect he could never get a date in high school and still blames General Motors. Who knows, maybe that Chevy convertible he could never afford might have helped shape a more positive attitude for him.
- Wave your arms around a lot and shout. If you shout something, that means it's important. The thing is, you've got to get people excited enough to... do... well, something. It doesn't have to be useful and certainly not reasonable or productive. You just have to get re-elected. Never mind why. Or how. Or over whose dead bodies. Got break eggs to make omelets, right?
Sound like a plan? Sounds like the Comrade's plan.
Does any of this serve the country? Does it serve anyone? Is this "stirring the base?" If so, what the hell kind of "base" does the Comrade have? Kinda like those loonies who dress up in ski masks and black Spandex, like Saddam Hussein's Mujahaddin, and show up at the international economic conferences to break windows and set fires.
Is this what the Comrade wants for America? Better question: Is this what you want for America?
Save the Republic.
The Great Debate?
Watched the Republican debates in Florida the other night. Very intersting, but there's so many candidates, nobody gets enough time.
Just my take:
Romney's too slick by half; Perry's too inarticulate and still in the governor mindset, an advocate for Texas. Not a bad thing, just not presidential.
And I'd like to add, a long time ago I did a story on how to assimilate foreign-born workers into the US workplace. Do you learn their language or teach them English? Do you provide them opportunites for advancement or just exploit them? Pretty crass way to phrase it, but there it is.
I talked to a man who was an exec at Texs Instruments at the time. Ya see, Texas has a long, long border with Mexico and its foreign-born, notably Mexican-born, population was growing faster than its population of US citizens. This guy from Texas Instruments made an excellent point.
He said the way to get immigrants (of any kind, actually) into the American mainstream was to "give them a stake in it." Therefore, I can't disagree with Perry and Texas' policy of letting the kids of even illegal immigrants attend state-run colleges and universities at the rate given to residents. More than likely, those kids were born here even if their parents were illegal. So what do you do with them IN THE REAL WORLD? That's the question. I mean, this isn't Utopia after all, and Texas has lived with this issue longer than most.
The kids are here. They're going to stay here. You can't deport them. So are you going to force them into poverty, give them a case for hating the US? Herd them into some ghetto? That's kind of like what happened to the Palestinians who deported themselves out of Israel. They squatted in hovels and nurtured their grievances. Their unhappy situation was all Israel's fault, they whined. They make really good cannon fodder for people like Yassir Arafat and Osama bn Ladn. And in the Middle East, this wasn't the Israeli policy, but the Palestinian policy.
So, anyway, no. You don't disenfranchise the children of even illegal immigrants, but allow them a stake in America. It's not a free ride. They still have to pay for school, just at the rate given to Texas residents, which apparently they are. They still have to get themselves a job and support themselves. And once they own a "piece of the rock," they usually become productive and respectable citizens.
But police the borders, and fix that law about automatic citzenship if you're born in the USA. That was written to ensure the citizenship of newly-freed slaves. In Texas, it's not the fault of the kids that their parents jumped the fence. And it's largely a state issue, isn't it, at state-run universities?
And you know what? Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Sorry about that. I'm pretty much stuck with it, too, or will be soon, but that doesn't change the fact that I have been forced to pay for it all of my life, and that it no longer works and was bound to run out of steam someday. I understand Romney being afraid to get too close to that "third rail," especially in Florida, but I think we need to do something about it, like completely restructure it. I was in favor of privatizing Social Security 20 years ago and still am, though I'm too old now to benefit from it.
I thought Rick Santorum was awful. Harping and desperate. Yeah, we know you're one of the most conservative people on earth.
Herman Cain did win. He came off as reasonable, responsible, friendly, and humble, though I'm not so sure I agree with his "9-9-9" solution for a few reasons I won't go into here, except to say that it's too likely to be abused the next time we get people like the Comrade, Pelosi and Reid in positions of authority. No matter what kind of legislative fence you build around it, the slimy socialists will find a way around it.
Huntsman sounded curiously like a very slickly schooled Ron Paul. Gary Johnson, a Libertarian like Ron Paul, also sounded like Ron Paul, not surprisingly. I must say, the Libertarians do have their own brand of Kool-Aid. Gary Johnson had the best line of the night, saying his neighbor's two dogs had produced more "shovel-ready jobs" than the Comrade's administration.
That leaves Newt Gingrich, who seemed so laid back it was bizarre. But apparently he's coming out with his own economic policy this week, so he was holding his fire, I guess. He and Herman Cain were picked most often as a preferred v.p. candidate on the ticket. I'd love Gingrich as V.P., if in that position he was allowed considerable power to 1.) deal with congress; 2.) develop policy; 3.) head up the program to slice & dice the federal machine. But in that case, what would the president do?
Michelle Bachman came off sounding like a tax accountant. I understand her wanting to back up all her statements by quoting their sources -- she's been criticized for saying unpardonable things like "John Wayne grew up in Winterset, Iowa" -- but she sounded kinda like a robot and came in last in the Florida Straw Poll.
So that's about it. I'd still prefer any of these people over the Comrade.
Save the Republic.
Just my take:
Romney's too slick by half; Perry's too inarticulate and still in the governor mindset, an advocate for Texas. Not a bad thing, just not presidential.
And I'd like to add, a long time ago I did a story on how to assimilate foreign-born workers into the US workplace. Do you learn their language or teach them English? Do you provide them opportunites for advancement or just exploit them? Pretty crass way to phrase it, but there it is.
I talked to a man who was an exec at Texs Instruments at the time. Ya see, Texas has a long, long border with Mexico and its foreign-born, notably Mexican-born, population was growing faster than its population of US citizens. This guy from Texas Instruments made an excellent point.
He said the way to get immigrants (of any kind, actually) into the American mainstream was to "give them a stake in it." Therefore, I can't disagree with Perry and Texas' policy of letting the kids of even illegal immigrants attend state-run colleges and universities at the rate given to residents. More than likely, those kids were born here even if their parents were illegal. So what do you do with them IN THE REAL WORLD? That's the question. I mean, this isn't Utopia after all, and Texas has lived with this issue longer than most.
The kids are here. They're going to stay here. You can't deport them. So are you going to force them into poverty, give them a case for hating the US? Herd them into some ghetto? That's kind of like what happened to the Palestinians who deported themselves out of Israel. They squatted in hovels and nurtured their grievances. Their unhappy situation was all Israel's fault, they whined. They make really good cannon fodder for people like Yassir Arafat and Osama bn Ladn. And in the Middle East, this wasn't the Israeli policy, but the Palestinian policy.
So, anyway, no. You don't disenfranchise the children of even illegal immigrants, but allow them a stake in America. It's not a free ride. They still have to pay for school, just at the rate given to Texas residents, which apparently they are. They still have to get themselves a job and support themselves. And once they own a "piece of the rock," they usually become productive and respectable citizens.
But police the borders, and fix that law about automatic citzenship if you're born in the USA. That was written to ensure the citizenship of newly-freed slaves. In Texas, it's not the fault of the kids that their parents jumped the fence. And it's largely a state issue, isn't it, at state-run universities?
And you know what? Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Sorry about that. I'm pretty much stuck with it, too, or will be soon, but that doesn't change the fact that I have been forced to pay for it all of my life, and that it no longer works and was bound to run out of steam someday. I understand Romney being afraid to get too close to that "third rail," especially in Florida, but I think we need to do something about it, like completely restructure it. I was in favor of privatizing Social Security 20 years ago and still am, though I'm too old now to benefit from it.
I thought Rick Santorum was awful. Harping and desperate. Yeah, we know you're one of the most conservative people on earth.
Herman Cain did win. He came off as reasonable, responsible, friendly, and humble, though I'm not so sure I agree with his "9-9-9" solution for a few reasons I won't go into here, except to say that it's too likely to be abused the next time we get people like the Comrade, Pelosi and Reid in positions of authority. No matter what kind of legislative fence you build around it, the slimy socialists will find a way around it.
Huntsman sounded curiously like a very slickly schooled Ron Paul. Gary Johnson, a Libertarian like Ron Paul, also sounded like Ron Paul, not surprisingly. I must say, the Libertarians do have their own brand of Kool-Aid. Gary Johnson had the best line of the night, saying his neighbor's two dogs had produced more "shovel-ready jobs" than the Comrade's administration.
That leaves Newt Gingrich, who seemed so laid back it was bizarre. But apparently he's coming out with his own economic policy this week, so he was holding his fire, I guess. He and Herman Cain were picked most often as a preferred v.p. candidate on the ticket. I'd love Gingrich as V.P., if in that position he was allowed considerable power to 1.) deal with congress; 2.) develop policy; 3.) head up the program to slice & dice the federal machine. But in that case, what would the president do?
Michelle Bachman came off sounding like a tax accountant. I understand her wanting to back up all her statements by quoting their sources -- she's been criticized for saying unpardonable things like "John Wayne grew up in Winterset, Iowa" -- but she sounded kinda like a robot and came in last in the Florida Straw Poll.
So that's about it. I'd still prefer any of these people over the Comrade.
Save the Republic.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Loose lips...
Watched Hannity on TV tonight for a while. He had a couple women on, debating the debacle over the feds giving Solyndra a half-billion dollars for... not much. The company has gone belly up and taken all those taxpayer dollars with it.
Such is the "stimulus." And Comrade Butthead wants a second one.
Anyway, the dems have taken up defending the indefensible. Crusaders in not a lost cause, but a worthless and destructive cause.
To wit, this silly bitch on Hannity tonight first said, "The loan to Solyndra was approved under the Bush Administration."
* No, it wasn't. As Hannity pointed out, the Bush folks looked at Solyndra and passed on investing in it. They thought it would fail.
The silly bitch then said something like, "It's the job of the federal government to invest in new technologies. That's what it's supposed to do."
* Oh yeah? Where in the US Constitution does it say that? And what kind of subsidies did, oh, Thomas Edison, for example, or Henry Ford get to nurture and baby their new technologies? Maybe that's why they made them work -- had to, or just a big goose egg on the balance sheet. They had to offer a worthwhile product and also develop a market for it. No market, no sales. Hey, Solyndra and you buttheads passing out the federal dollars -- take note. No market, no sales. Got that? Capitalism 101, blockheads. You must have been out picketing bankers that day and missed that class.
The silly bitch then said, "Red China invested billions in its solar industry..." And Hannity cut her off for time.
* But was this silly bitch honestly and truly suggesting that Red China should serve as an example to the USA? She must have learned economics from Paul Krugman.
These people are losing it. I mean, losing the capitalism vs. socialism argument big time, and also losing their grip on reality. 'Course, they probably started in LaLaLand if they embraced socialism in the first place. Or an Ivy League college on the East Coast.
We all understand the Comrade thinks Red China is a positive beacon (for something or other, his favorite brand of totalitarianism), but now his zombie-like disciples are giving away the whole show.
And I think I noted a few blogs back about those robots they're developing in China -- because of the extraordinarly high suicide rate among China's work force. Yeah, slave labor is the answer, isn't it? The best way to "take care" of the population is to get them all to kill themselves.
You really want to be like Red China, silly bitch, and all the rest of the Kool-Aid drinkers? If so, you deserve it. Go ahead, hop on a plane. Red China needs workers.
Oh, and the congressman who heads up the Congressional Black Caucus has announced that the caucus would be marching on the White House if it was, let's say, Clinton, instead of a black guy promulgating all these stupid, job-killing, freedom-anihilating policies. However, since the Comrade is half black, the caucus remains somewhat in his corner.
And the Tea Party is called racist?
Save the Republic.
Such is the "stimulus." And Comrade Butthead wants a second one.
Anyway, the dems have taken up defending the indefensible. Crusaders in not a lost cause, but a worthless and destructive cause.
To wit, this silly bitch on Hannity tonight first said, "The loan to Solyndra was approved under the Bush Administration."
* No, it wasn't. As Hannity pointed out, the Bush folks looked at Solyndra and passed on investing in it. They thought it would fail.
The silly bitch then said something like, "It's the job of the federal government to invest in new technologies. That's what it's supposed to do."
* Oh yeah? Where in the US Constitution does it say that? And what kind of subsidies did, oh, Thomas Edison, for example, or Henry Ford get to nurture and baby their new technologies? Maybe that's why they made them work -- had to, or just a big goose egg on the balance sheet. They had to offer a worthwhile product and also develop a market for it. No market, no sales. Hey, Solyndra and you buttheads passing out the federal dollars -- take note. No market, no sales. Got that? Capitalism 101, blockheads. You must have been out picketing bankers that day and missed that class.
The silly bitch then said, "Red China invested billions in its solar industry..." And Hannity cut her off for time.
* But was this silly bitch honestly and truly suggesting that Red China should serve as an example to the USA? She must have learned economics from Paul Krugman.
These people are losing it. I mean, losing the capitalism vs. socialism argument big time, and also losing their grip on reality. 'Course, they probably started in LaLaLand if they embraced socialism in the first place. Or an Ivy League college on the East Coast.
We all understand the Comrade thinks Red China is a positive beacon (for something or other, his favorite brand of totalitarianism), but now his zombie-like disciples are giving away the whole show.
And I think I noted a few blogs back about those robots they're developing in China -- because of the extraordinarly high suicide rate among China's work force. Yeah, slave labor is the answer, isn't it? The best way to "take care" of the population is to get them all to kill themselves.
You really want to be like Red China, silly bitch, and all the rest of the Kool-Aid drinkers? If so, you deserve it. Go ahead, hop on a plane. Red China needs workers.
Oh, and the congressman who heads up the Congressional Black Caucus has announced that the caucus would be marching on the White House if it was, let's say, Clinton, instead of a black guy promulgating all these stupid, job-killing, freedom-anihilating policies. However, since the Comrade is half black, the caucus remains somewhat in his corner.
And the Tea Party is called racist?
Save the Republic.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Dems, like lemmings, heading over the cliff
Well, let's see which socialist dem shot himself in the foot today. Oh, it was the Comrade.
I didn't hear his speech, if he gave a speech. I know he did in some way unveil his "plan" to pay for all the additional spending he wants to do. No secret. That has been leaked for at least a week now.
Apparently the Comrade's suggestion will be called the "Buffet Tax." Jimmy Buffet? "But I know, it's my own damn fault." No, that can't be it.
More like Warren Buffet. The millionnaire who apparently wants to be sure that no one else in the USA ever makes the kind of money he's made. Or who's been rich for so long, he forgot how he made his money.
You know, Warren, if you think you don't pay enough in taxes, you can just write the feds a check. Two more things -- Warren Buffet has left his estate to the Bill Gates Foundation -- not the feds -- and his company, Berkley Hathaway, owes the feds about $1 billion in back taxes and it's fighting the action in court.
So much for the typical hypocrisy associated with centralized-state lovers. That is, lots and lots of rules should be made and taxes levied on the little money-grubbing peons, but those rules should never apply to the anointed ones who make the rules. They're god-like and float somewhere in a kind of divine stratosphere about 50,000 feet above the earth, no?
On the plus side, no one but Warren Buffet appears to be taking the Comrade or his proposal very seriously. Everyone knows it's going to be killed in congress -- even a dem-controlled congress isn't suicidal enough to push this crap through. They had the chance when Pazzo Pelosi was Speaker and it didn't pass then.
The Comrade counts on seeing the bill fail, then he'll blame Republicans for a ruined economy.
And he blames -- over and over and over again -- politicians who only want to be re-elected and are willing to sacrifice the nation for there own ambition.
He's the chief person who's doing that. We all know it. We all know this is just a political ploy, a rather desperate -- and rather stupid -- last-ditch effort to not accept any blame for having a more destructive impact on the USA than the Islamo-terrorists.
And somewhat related to the death wish and to Islamo-terrorists, have you noticed how the more fanatic socialists are getting increasingly more self-destructive? Look at Paul Krugman. After his diatribe against the USA on 9/11, he no doubt will have to hire body guards if he intends to go outside in New York City. I suspect he doesn't go out much anyway. If he was truly engaged with reality, he couldn't possibly believe the crap he believes in.
I suppose they're all depressed. Not because they'll lose the 2012 election, but because their stupid policies actually have been implemented and have not only failed, but made things much, much worse.
Must say, keep it up folks! I'll be the one in the red dress, dancing an Irish jig, at your funerals.
Save the Republic.
I didn't hear his speech, if he gave a speech. I know he did in some way unveil his "plan" to pay for all the additional spending he wants to do. No secret. That has been leaked for at least a week now.
Apparently the Comrade's suggestion will be called the "Buffet Tax." Jimmy Buffet? "But I know, it's my own damn fault." No, that can't be it.
More like Warren Buffet. The millionnaire who apparently wants to be sure that no one else in the USA ever makes the kind of money he's made. Or who's been rich for so long, he forgot how he made his money.
You know, Warren, if you think you don't pay enough in taxes, you can just write the feds a check. Two more things -- Warren Buffet has left his estate to the Bill Gates Foundation -- not the feds -- and his company, Berkley Hathaway, owes the feds about $1 billion in back taxes and it's fighting the action in court.
So much for the typical hypocrisy associated with centralized-state lovers. That is, lots and lots of rules should be made and taxes levied on the little money-grubbing peons, but those rules should never apply to the anointed ones who make the rules. They're god-like and float somewhere in a kind of divine stratosphere about 50,000 feet above the earth, no?
On the plus side, no one but Warren Buffet appears to be taking the Comrade or his proposal very seriously. Everyone knows it's going to be killed in congress -- even a dem-controlled congress isn't suicidal enough to push this crap through. They had the chance when Pazzo Pelosi was Speaker and it didn't pass then.
The Comrade counts on seeing the bill fail, then he'll blame Republicans for a ruined economy.
And he blames -- over and over and over again -- politicians who only want to be re-elected and are willing to sacrifice the nation for there own ambition.
He's the chief person who's doing that. We all know it. We all know this is just a political ploy, a rather desperate -- and rather stupid -- last-ditch effort to not accept any blame for having a more destructive impact on the USA than the Islamo-terrorists.
And somewhat related to the death wish and to Islamo-terrorists, have you noticed how the more fanatic socialists are getting increasingly more self-destructive? Look at Paul Krugman. After his diatribe against the USA on 9/11, he no doubt will have to hire body guards if he intends to go outside in New York City. I suspect he doesn't go out much anyway. If he was truly engaged with reality, he couldn't possibly believe the crap he believes in.
I suppose they're all depressed. Not because they'll lose the 2012 election, but because their stupid policies actually have been implemented and have not only failed, but made things much, much worse.
Must say, keep it up folks! I'll be the one in the red dress, dancing an Irish jig, at your funerals.
Save the Republic.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
I love New York, or Howard Beach anyway
Well, interesting. Remember Anthony Weiner, the weiner? A congressman from Howard Beach, NY, fond of displaying his private parts on Twitter? He resigned. Finally.
So today there was a special election to fill his seat in the US House.
Interesting district. The seat was once held by Geraldine Ferraro (who ran for US vice president with Mondale in 1984 and lost) and also by Chucklehead Schumer, who's now a US Senator from New York. Then came the weiner.
Anyway, it's a district that includes many conservative Jews, and it also has voted democrat consistently for nearly a century. The seat in the House has been held by a democrat since 1923 or thereabouts.
So guess who won this election?
Bob Turner, Republican. And from news reports, he claimed to be a Tea Party supporter. At least that's what his opponents said. 'Course, maybe they'll want to take that back now, if only so that they can continue to pretend that the Tea Party represents unpopular and "extremist" views.
From the New York Times:
But no more.
Read 'em and weep, White House marxists. We don't like you and we're not going to play your game anymore. We're just plain sick of your crap. Kinda like what Ronald Reagan said once. He had been a democrat for many years, but then declared himself a Republican. He said, "I didn't move away from the party; the party moved away from me."
Yeah, it's like that.
Save the Republic.
So today there was a special election to fill his seat in the US House.
Interesting district. The seat was once held by Geraldine Ferraro (who ran for US vice president with Mondale in 1984 and lost) and also by Chucklehead Schumer, who's now a US Senator from New York. Then came the weiner.
Anyway, it's a district that includes many conservative Jews, and it also has voted democrat consistently for nearly a century. The seat in the House has been held by a democrat since 1923 or thereabouts.
So guess who won this election?
Bob Turner, Republican. And from news reports, he claimed to be a Tea Party supporter. At least that's what his opponents said. 'Course, maybe they'll want to take that back now, if only so that they can continue to pretend that the Tea Party represents unpopular and "extremist" views.
From the New York Times:
...Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said the district’s large concentration of Orthodox Jews made it unusual and meant the race had few national ramifications.Obviously Wasserman Schultz is wearing her her butt for a hat, as usual, and is either in shock or very deep, psychotic denial. That is, delusional. The Comrade won the district with 56% of the vote in 2008. I'd say he carried it handily back then. Like all the democrats who have run in that district for almost 100 years past.
“In this district, there is a large number of people who went to the polls tonight who didn’t support the president to begin with and don’t support Democrats — and it’s nothing more than that,” she said in a telephone interview.
But no more.
Read 'em and weep, White House marxists. We don't like you and we're not going to play your game anymore. We're just plain sick of your crap. Kinda like what Ronald Reagan said once. He had been a democrat for many years, but then declared himself a Republican. He said, "I didn't move away from the party; the party moved away from me."
Yeah, it's like that.
Save the Republic.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The ugly face of progressives
Just a note, because this bastard doesn't deserve anything more, but I understand the New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, has come out claiming that the ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were "disgraceful."
See, Krugman claims that the US caused the problem. Therefore, mourning the deaths of the 3,000 individuals, including 343 firefighters and police officers, who died in the World Trade Center, and regarding them as "heroes" is all a fraud.
The USA deserved it, you see.
Krugman is one of the most disgusting turds allowed space in an American newspaper. Why not haul your sorry ass to Cuba, butthead? I'm sure Castro would love to hear your drivel. Can't think of anyone else who might, at least anyone who values human life.
Krugman does have a Nobel Prize, but then so does the Comrade. I think those Nobel Prizes are more the mark of Cain anymore than a sign of achievement. I suppose it says on the certificate, "In recognition of the blockheaded stupidity of an extraordinarly useful idiot."
Krugman's an asshole. He still insists that stimulus works; that it hasn't worked so far because it wasn't "big enough." Hey, why not toss your Nobel Prize funds into the federal pot, moron? Maybe that will help.
Why is this person allowed a public forum? Does he have anything enlightening to say? I don't think so. Is he part of the solution or a source of the problem?
The New York Times has become nothing more than a megaphone for the far left. They kept calling me trying to get to buy a subscription. I told them I put on MSNBC and get that marxist viewpoint any time without paying extra for it. And guess what, the telemarketer had a whole bunch of arguments all laid out to try to overcome exactly those objections. I suspect they've heard it before.
The NYT and Krugman can -- and certainly will -- burn in hell. Even before their earthly demise. Life in a free country must be a dreadful burden for them.
Save the Republic.
See, Krugman claims that the US caused the problem. Therefore, mourning the deaths of the 3,000 individuals, including 343 firefighters and police officers, who died in the World Trade Center, and regarding them as "heroes" is all a fraud.
The USA deserved it, you see.
Krugman is one of the most disgusting turds allowed space in an American newspaper. Why not haul your sorry ass to Cuba, butthead? I'm sure Castro would love to hear your drivel. Can't think of anyone else who might, at least anyone who values human life.
Krugman does have a Nobel Prize, but then so does the Comrade. I think those Nobel Prizes are more the mark of Cain anymore than a sign of achievement. I suppose it says on the certificate, "In recognition of the blockheaded stupidity of an extraordinarly useful idiot."
Krugman's an asshole. He still insists that stimulus works; that it hasn't worked so far because it wasn't "big enough." Hey, why not toss your Nobel Prize funds into the federal pot, moron? Maybe that will help.
Why is this person allowed a public forum? Does he have anything enlightening to say? I don't think so. Is he part of the solution or a source of the problem?
The New York Times has become nothing more than a megaphone for the far left. They kept calling me trying to get to buy a subscription. I told them I put on MSNBC and get that marxist viewpoint any time without paying extra for it. And guess what, the telemarketer had a whole bunch of arguments all laid out to try to overcome exactly those objections. I suspect they've heard it before.
The NYT and Krugman can -- and certainly will -- burn in hell. Even before their earthly demise. Life in a free country must be a dreadful burden for them.
Save the Republic.
US federal government: a greedy fat cat?
The Comrade has proposed a second stimulus. About $450 billion for teachers and construction workers, in other words, for the unions that support him.
And we're supposed to pay for this in increased taxes? Which will eventually end up in his campaign fund?
I don't think so.
On the plus side, I contacted Speaker of the House John Boehner's office, and they assure me the Republicans in the House won't support anything that will only make the economy worse.
But you got to look at the Comrade's policies from a marxist perspective. That's the only way they make sense.
See, one major -- actually key -- difference between socialism and capitalism is that in a socialist system, the central government controls all of a nation's assets, or as much as the government can get its hands on through legislation and regulation. Like seizing control of the banks via TARP and also the Fudd-Dudd legislation that lays 2,500 pages of new regulation on all kinds of financial institutions. So the feds grab control of the finance industry -- those huge pools of capital and sources of lending that make the economy work and grow.
Even if the feds don't outright own the banks and credit companies, they control them. They mandate those companies' policies, tell them who they can hire, what they can charge, what they can lend to whom. What to print on the monthly statements, for pete's sake.
Then the feds seize and control and "reorganize" the auto industry, energy, education, health care.
Starting to sound familiar? You know, Monkey-face Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's marxist dictator, laughed and applauded in 2009, noting that the Comrade wasn't in office a month before he sezied control of the US auto industry. Monkey-face was delighted.
The only pools of capital left that remain beyond the direct control of Washington DC are privately owned funds in the hands of corporations and private individuals. So the Comrade's going after them now -- primarily through taxation, but also by levying 25,000 pages of regulations designed to cripple them and compel them to spend tons of money on accountants, lawyers, and fines to the feds. If the federal government doesn't outright own them, they still try to run them, dictate their policies and control their operations through regulation and mandated reporting. Or the feds shut these companies down.
The Comrade's very fond of speaking with an arrogant disdain about "fat cats" and "greedy" capitalists. But exactly who is it eating up the nation's resources? Not private citizens or corporations, but the federal government. And if the feds were doing a good job, the economy would reflect that immediately in economic growth and a general prosperity.
That hasn't happend. Just the opposite. No growth, higher unemployment. A very high level of uncertainty for business that prevents them from making significant investments in... anything. I don't blame them. It could all be seized by the feds tomorrow -- like the Gibson Guitar Company. Now there's a danger to society.
Being a marxist socialist, the Comrade has this obsessive compulsion to seize the assets and resources of any and every private citizen and organization and to bring it under direct control of a monstrous (and extremely wasteful and incompetent) federal government.
This is socialism -- by any other name, this is socialism.
Resist. You can also drop John Boehner a note, or your own Rep or Senator, if they happen to be anti-socialist. Unfortunately, it seems few democrats still fall into the anti-socialist category anymore. And for that reason, looks like they're all going to lose big time in 2012. We can only hope.
Save the Republic.
And we're supposed to pay for this in increased taxes? Which will eventually end up in his campaign fund?
I don't think so.
On the plus side, I contacted Speaker of the House John Boehner's office, and they assure me the Republicans in the House won't support anything that will only make the economy worse.
But you got to look at the Comrade's policies from a marxist perspective. That's the only way they make sense.
See, one major -- actually key -- difference between socialism and capitalism is that in a socialist system, the central government controls all of a nation's assets, or as much as the government can get its hands on through legislation and regulation. Like seizing control of the banks via TARP and also the Fudd-Dudd legislation that lays 2,500 pages of new regulation on all kinds of financial institutions. So the feds grab control of the finance industry -- those huge pools of capital and sources of lending that make the economy work and grow.
Even if the feds don't outright own the banks and credit companies, they control them. They mandate those companies' policies, tell them who they can hire, what they can charge, what they can lend to whom. What to print on the monthly statements, for pete's sake.
Then the feds seize and control and "reorganize" the auto industry, energy, education, health care.
Starting to sound familiar? You know, Monkey-face Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's marxist dictator, laughed and applauded in 2009, noting that the Comrade wasn't in office a month before he sezied control of the US auto industry. Monkey-face was delighted.
The only pools of capital left that remain beyond the direct control of Washington DC are privately owned funds in the hands of corporations and private individuals. So the Comrade's going after them now -- primarily through taxation, but also by levying 25,000 pages of regulations designed to cripple them and compel them to spend tons of money on accountants, lawyers, and fines to the feds. If the federal government doesn't outright own them, they still try to run them, dictate their policies and control their operations through regulation and mandated reporting. Or the feds shut these companies down.
The Comrade's very fond of speaking with an arrogant disdain about "fat cats" and "greedy" capitalists. But exactly who is it eating up the nation's resources? Not private citizens or corporations, but the federal government. And if the feds were doing a good job, the economy would reflect that immediately in economic growth and a general prosperity.
That hasn't happend. Just the opposite. No growth, higher unemployment. A very high level of uncertainty for business that prevents them from making significant investments in... anything. I don't blame them. It could all be seized by the feds tomorrow -- like the Gibson Guitar Company. Now there's a danger to society.
Being a marxist socialist, the Comrade has this obsessive compulsion to seize the assets and resources of any and every private citizen and organization and to bring it under direct control of a monstrous (and extremely wasteful and incompetent) federal government.
This is socialism -- by any other name, this is socialism.
Resist. You can also drop John Boehner a note, or your own Rep or Senator, if they happen to be anti-socialist. Unfortunately, it seems few democrats still fall into the anti-socialist category anymore. And for that reason, looks like they're all going to lose big time in 2012. We can only hope.
Save the Republic.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
9/11 + 10
It's only a couple hours after midnight and I've already seen numerous shows about 9/11/01, the day the USA was attacked by a bunch of slobbering rabid maniacs who are much better off dead.
Apparently 9/11 has been so thoroughly covered over the last decade, and perhaps some of the shock and numbness has worn off, but this year the media is carrying some very interesting stories about the actual people who died in the WTC, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, instead of just reporting the details of what happened.
A quote: "We shall never stop war, whatever machinery we may devise, until we have learned to think always, with a desperate urgency and an utter self-identification, of single human beings."
That's from Victor Gollancz, who was a British pubisher and rather left-leaning.
Something I learned while writing a novel about the US Civil War, is that it's not enough to believe you are right about something, you also have to take into account the consequences of your actions as you promote your views. This character in my novel was all anti-slavery and totally fired up about the Civil War, and without once backing off that view, was compelled to face the cost of that view in terms of horribly mangled soldiers and the possibility of losing the USA all together.
Some things are worth fighting and dying for, if that's their price. Personally, I'd rather be dead than live as a slave -- to a plantation boss or a government that has overstepped its bounds and is ruining my personal liberty, forcing me to work 14 hours a day to pay taxes or have my old and obsolete property confiscated. And I totally despise those who want to push me into a situation where I'm forced to defend myself. Every goddamn day. Every goddamn day.
We all have the right to be wrong, but we don't have the right to impose our views on others, make them pay for our "morality," or whatever, whether that "morality" is based on the Koran or on Karl Marx and Das Kapital.
You have to always consider that although whatever you believe in is documented and clearly demonstrable, somebody else might happily accept a lot of irratioinal hooey and will fight you if you try to make them give it up. I figure people can believe whatever they want, as long as they don't expect me to pay for it -- or to join them in supporting it. We are not "all in this together." We live in separate skins.
You know, the Founding Fathers taught "toleration" as strenuously as they promoted individual liberty. Like Thomas Jefferson, who would tolerate almost anything that "neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." I think he'd be horrified at the notion of "political correctness."
But getting back to 9/11, if I've left it... We forget that the families at home waited for days and even longer in many cases to find out whether or not their spouse, parent, sibling, friend was dead or alive. Heard stories over the last couple days from NY firefighters who were the lone survivors of their squads. The guilt must be overwhelming.
What amazes me is that in such a shocking (and I mean like medical shock) situation, so many people stopped to help other people, looked around for others to help, went back into the buildings to help others. And some of them perished. Private citizens, too, not only those trained for rescue operations.
I don't believe "selflessness" is a good thing. You can't help others unless you are in a better situation than they are. But this all happened on Wall Street, you know? Two giant towers housing one of the planet's most intense concentrations of "greed" and "fat cats." That's what made them targets, isn't it? Living the American Dream? Freedom and its result, prosperity.
And finding out more about exactly who these people were, as individuals, just emphasizes the tragedy of that day.
Save the Republic.
Apparently 9/11 has been so thoroughly covered over the last decade, and perhaps some of the shock and numbness has worn off, but this year the media is carrying some very interesting stories about the actual people who died in the WTC, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, instead of just reporting the details of what happened.
A quote: "We shall never stop war, whatever machinery we may devise, until we have learned to think always, with a desperate urgency and an utter self-identification, of single human beings."
That's from Victor Gollancz, who was a British pubisher and rather left-leaning.
Something I learned while writing a novel about the US Civil War, is that it's not enough to believe you are right about something, you also have to take into account the consequences of your actions as you promote your views. This character in my novel was all anti-slavery and totally fired up about the Civil War, and without once backing off that view, was compelled to face the cost of that view in terms of horribly mangled soldiers and the possibility of losing the USA all together.
Some things are worth fighting and dying for, if that's their price. Personally, I'd rather be dead than live as a slave -- to a plantation boss or a government that has overstepped its bounds and is ruining my personal liberty, forcing me to work 14 hours a day to pay taxes or have my old and obsolete property confiscated. And I totally despise those who want to push me into a situation where I'm forced to defend myself. Every goddamn day. Every goddamn day.
We all have the right to be wrong, but we don't have the right to impose our views on others, make them pay for our "morality," or whatever, whether that "morality" is based on the Koran or on Karl Marx and Das Kapital.
You have to always consider that although whatever you believe in is documented and clearly demonstrable, somebody else might happily accept a lot of irratioinal hooey and will fight you if you try to make them give it up. I figure people can believe whatever they want, as long as they don't expect me to pay for it -- or to join them in supporting it. We are not "all in this together." We live in separate skins.
You know, the Founding Fathers taught "toleration" as strenuously as they promoted individual liberty. Like Thomas Jefferson, who would tolerate almost anything that "neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." I think he'd be horrified at the notion of "political correctness."
But getting back to 9/11, if I've left it... We forget that the families at home waited for days and even longer in many cases to find out whether or not their spouse, parent, sibling, friend was dead or alive. Heard stories over the last couple days from NY firefighters who were the lone survivors of their squads. The guilt must be overwhelming.
What amazes me is that in such a shocking (and I mean like medical shock) situation, so many people stopped to help other people, looked around for others to help, went back into the buildings to help others. And some of them perished. Private citizens, too, not only those trained for rescue operations.
I don't believe "selflessness" is a good thing. You can't help others unless you are in a better situation than they are. But this all happened on Wall Street, you know? Two giant towers housing one of the planet's most intense concentrations of "greed" and "fat cats." That's what made them targets, isn't it? Living the American Dream? Freedom and its result, prosperity.
And finding out more about exactly who these people were, as individuals, just emphasizes the tragedy of that day.
Save the Republic.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
"Pass this bill." Then figure out who pays for it later? Is that it?
I actually listened to the Comrade's speech tonight. He was working a little too hard to sound as though he's convinced of the drivel running out of his mouth. All he needed was a letter sweater and pompoms. Looks like he's been taking acting lessons from Howard Dean.
What I found especially interesting was his promise -- spoken with delight and wonder -- "And it's all paid for!"
What? Was he speaking as a visitor from 3010? Or what? Like, "Your great-great-great-grandchildren will just about have this paid off!" Miracle of miracles.
He has no new ideas. Just the same old marxist crap. And the word he dare not speak aloud: "stimulus." Like we don't recognize it when we see it, huh?
He did begin by saying that most Americans don't care about politics. Yeah. I think he's counting on that -- that the majority of the American public is more ignorant than he is.
Let's see if that works for him this time.
One thing I thought was cool. The Comrade said something like, "A lot of people believe that the government has to cut taxes, cut regulations for the economy to grow...." That got a long ovation, interrupting him before it finished it off with something like, "But no. I've got to control every aspect of your life or it's not truly marxist."
He didn't seem happy with the extremely selective applause. That was my favorite part.
On the whole, the speech was a load of crap, but I didn't expect much else.
Save the Republic.
What I found especially interesting was his promise -- spoken with delight and wonder -- "And it's all paid for!"
What? Was he speaking as a visitor from 3010? Or what? Like, "Your great-great-great-grandchildren will just about have this paid off!" Miracle of miracles.
He has no new ideas. Just the same old marxist crap. And the word he dare not speak aloud: "stimulus." Like we don't recognize it when we see it, huh?
He did begin by saying that most Americans don't care about politics. Yeah. I think he's counting on that -- that the majority of the American public is more ignorant than he is.
Let's see if that works for him this time.
One thing I thought was cool. The Comrade said something like, "A lot of people believe that the government has to cut taxes, cut regulations for the economy to grow...." That got a long ovation, interrupting him before it finished it off with something like, "But no. I've got to control every aspect of your life or it's not truly marxist."
He didn't seem happy with the extremely selective applause. That was my favorite part.
On the whole, the speech was a load of crap, but I didn't expect much else.
Save the Republic.
How do unions benefit?
So the Comrade's supposed big speech is scheduled for tonight. Yawn. I don't expect any surprises and apparently no one else does either, not even the dems. On top of that, everyone knows the speech is just a big political game to try to dump the blame for this economy on Congress.
Are there any voters out there who aren't aware of this? I mean, who does the Comrade think he's fooling?
Well, maybe the unions? Are union members that stupid? Or is it just their leaders? Power-mad, greedy thugs?
I've said before, I've been in two unions due to "closed shop" laws in Illinois. That is, if you don't join the union, you don't work. I haven't really said which unions they were. I'll say it now, it was SEIU before the communists took over and then later, the Teamsters.
I didn't quite see any advantages from membership in either one. The Teamsters was the worst though. Very high dues withheld from our checks, and our steward was intimidated by the "guys downtown" and wouldn't even ask them any questions. Apart from taking our money every month. the Teamsters had absolutely no impact whatsoever on that job, conditions, days off or anything. But our management bosses were scared poopless of them, too.
So I'm just thinking, what are union members getting out of the Comrade's regime? Are they working? Maybe for six months, 12 months -- for as long as the first stimulus lasted. But now even the US Post Office -- employing the largest aggregate union in the country apart from public school teachers -- even the Post Office is facing serious cut-backs. There's even talks of shutting it down all together.
When I was in the SEIU, leadership tried to donate a whole bunch of money to the dem candidate running for president that year -- and he had promised a "guaranteed income" for everyone. That is, every American would be guaranteed X-amount of income if they worked or not, or whatever their situation might be. The SEIU leadership wanted to support this guy's campaign. But there was such a rage about that... "You mean I gotta work my ass off 40 hours a week plus any overtime I can get and these lazy assholes just sit back and collect?" I think in the end, the SEIU didn't donate any money to anyone that year. As I said, it was before the communists took it over.
During the Reagan presidency, I knew several -- actually dozens -- of union members who became very staunch Republicans. Just like the "solid South," which heretofore had been solidly democrat in protest of Lincoln and abolition.
So union leadership doesn't always reflect the values and beliefs of the people they represent. I'm sure not every SEIU member is a marxist, as that organization's leadership is.
And the Teamsters? Having heard snippets of Jimmy Hoffa Jr's tirade against the Tea Party, I'd guess Hoffa is about as brutal, thuggish and corrupt as his old man. And he'll probably end up buried under a stadium in the Meadowlands, too. Or whatever. Wonder how many Teamsters are also Tea Party? Something to think about, Junior.
Much more recently, as a journalist, I watched the demise of an industry partially due to union pressures. The industry was automating. The union represented only maybe a quarter of the people employed in businesses nationwide, and then usually only in the larger businesses. As technologies changed and the industry shrunk just due to those developments (consumers could do their own work, rather than go to one of these businesses to have it done), the unions started screaming and hollering, demanding better pay, blah-blah-blah. The industry union got so small that it's now joined itself to either the Teamsters of the AFL. I forget which.
One company was the largest in this industry in the world. The union began ranting and raving, lying and trying to generate all kinds of bad publicity, lobbying for things Card-Check (that's the first time I ever heard of it, in the 1990s), and also trying to organize its union internationally. The union apparently believed this huge, huge company was the place to start. Many of its facilities were already organized and the company had always got along pretty well with its unions. Until the harrassment started.
So this biggest company in the world started selling off and shutting down its plants all over the world. It took its remaining capital and restructured itself into a succesful business in a different industry. And there's about 30,000 one-time employees who don't work for them anymore. The unions were just too much trouble to deal with. So the corporation cut and run while it still had something left to start over somewhere else.
Anyways, now I'm rambling. But I just hope the union membership takes a step back and thinks about all this before they get on the bus, drink the Kool-Aid, and start beating up bankers or Tea Party members or whatever Junior and Trumpka wants them to do. The membership are Americans, too, after all. Once a free and proud people. Are they still?
Save the Republic.
Are there any voters out there who aren't aware of this? I mean, who does the Comrade think he's fooling?
Well, maybe the unions? Are union members that stupid? Or is it just their leaders? Power-mad, greedy thugs?
I've said before, I've been in two unions due to "closed shop" laws in Illinois. That is, if you don't join the union, you don't work. I haven't really said which unions they were. I'll say it now, it was SEIU before the communists took over and then later, the Teamsters.
I didn't quite see any advantages from membership in either one. The Teamsters was the worst though. Very high dues withheld from our checks, and our steward was intimidated by the "guys downtown" and wouldn't even ask them any questions. Apart from taking our money every month. the Teamsters had absolutely no impact whatsoever on that job, conditions, days off or anything. But our management bosses were scared poopless of them, too.
So I'm just thinking, what are union members getting out of the Comrade's regime? Are they working? Maybe for six months, 12 months -- for as long as the first stimulus lasted. But now even the US Post Office -- employing the largest aggregate union in the country apart from public school teachers -- even the Post Office is facing serious cut-backs. There's even talks of shutting it down all together.
When I was in the SEIU, leadership tried to donate a whole bunch of money to the dem candidate running for president that year -- and he had promised a "guaranteed income" for everyone. That is, every American would be guaranteed X-amount of income if they worked or not, or whatever their situation might be. The SEIU leadership wanted to support this guy's campaign. But there was such a rage about that... "You mean I gotta work my ass off 40 hours a week plus any overtime I can get and these lazy assholes just sit back and collect?" I think in the end, the SEIU didn't donate any money to anyone that year. As I said, it was before the communists took it over.
During the Reagan presidency, I knew several -- actually dozens -- of union members who became very staunch Republicans. Just like the "solid South," which heretofore had been solidly democrat in protest of Lincoln and abolition.
So union leadership doesn't always reflect the values and beliefs of the people they represent. I'm sure not every SEIU member is a marxist, as that organization's leadership is.
And the Teamsters? Having heard snippets of Jimmy Hoffa Jr's tirade against the Tea Party, I'd guess Hoffa is about as brutal, thuggish and corrupt as his old man. And he'll probably end up buried under a stadium in the Meadowlands, too. Or whatever. Wonder how many Teamsters are also Tea Party? Something to think about, Junior.
Much more recently, as a journalist, I watched the demise of an industry partially due to union pressures. The industry was automating. The union represented only maybe a quarter of the people employed in businesses nationwide, and then usually only in the larger businesses. As technologies changed and the industry shrunk just due to those developments (consumers could do their own work, rather than go to one of these businesses to have it done), the unions started screaming and hollering, demanding better pay, blah-blah-blah. The industry union got so small that it's now joined itself to either the Teamsters of the AFL. I forget which.
One company was the largest in this industry in the world. The union began ranting and raving, lying and trying to generate all kinds of bad publicity, lobbying for things Card-Check (that's the first time I ever heard of it, in the 1990s), and also trying to organize its union internationally. The union apparently believed this huge, huge company was the place to start. Many of its facilities were already organized and the company had always got along pretty well with its unions. Until the harrassment started.
So this biggest company in the world started selling off and shutting down its plants all over the world. It took its remaining capital and restructured itself into a succesful business in a different industry. And there's about 30,000 one-time employees who don't work for them anymore. The unions were just too much trouble to deal with. So the corporation cut and run while it still had something left to start over somewhere else.
Anyways, now I'm rambling. But I just hope the union membership takes a step back and thinks about all this before they get on the bus, drink the Kool-Aid, and start beating up bankers or Tea Party members or whatever Junior and Trumpka wants them to do. The membership are Americans, too, after all. Once a free and proud people. Are they still?
Save the Republic.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Face it, "stimulus" doesn't work -- no free lunch
Well, the Comrade is apparently totally out of ideas.
What is it? Almost three years ago now, I wrote in this blog that if the $787 BILLION (that's almost a TRILLION) followed by an $410 BILLION Omnibus bill (that makes it MORE THAN A TRILLION) went through, there would be jobs for a short while -- as long as the money lasted -- and then we'd be stuck with nothing but debt. No recovery.
The Comrade and idiots like Paul Krugman said, No, the stimulus is going to resuscitate the economy and will bring a new day of economic paradise.
What actually happened here?
As the Comrade gears up for his big speech Thursday night, having secured the permission of congress to use congress as a classy background and a prop, word leaks about what he's going to propose. Not surprisingly, he's going to propose another stimulus.
God save us all from this ignoramus. Clearly, anyone who wants another stimulus is trying their damedest to destroy the nation. How much evidence do you need? Look at what the last stimulus did.
Are you better off now than you were three years ago?
Told a story once how under Nixon's stupid policies of price freezes, when the freeze came off, the price of bacon went from 89 cents a pound to $1.89. Last time I was at the store looking at bacon, it was $6.99 a pound.
Is that a good thing? Can anyone but a government employee survive with this shit? It's called "quantitative easing." Otherwise known as "fire up the printing presses and create a bunch of currency that's worth absolutely nothing." Like Germany between the wars.
How many times does the human race have to conduct these kinds of failed and destructive policies before it figures out they do more harm than good? Reality won't let us operate that way. All these policies do is consume and trash the resources of the nation and of individuals -- 'cause ultimately we have to pay for it all. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Carter had the double whammy of inflation and unemployment. The Comrade has inflation, unemployment, and a monstrous debt that he created and from which we may never recover.
The Comrade is presenting his proposal as the one and only solution. And he's dead serious, because he's demonstrated he knows nothing about capitalist economics, having been schooled in marxist fantasyland stuff. So more debt and failure being the only solution he offers, a wiser and better educated congress will likely refuse it. We can only hope.
Then the Comrade can campaign, "See, congress is standing in the way again."
Meanwhile Brain-dead Harry Reid (D-for-dumb Nevada), will not allow any serious and useful economic proposals to be heard on the floor of the Senate. So exactly who is blocking progress?
And the Comrade says the Republicans are blocking movement for political reasons. Actually, if Congress passes this bullshit, they'd be acting with such an abandonment of all principle and concern for the USA, they'd come close to equaling the hatred and contempt the Comrade has for this nation.
THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE NOTHING YET THAT ISN'T PURELY AND ENTIRELY POLITICAL. HE'S DEMONSTRATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT HE DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE USA, AS LONG HE BULLIES THROUGH HIS COMMUNIST POLICIES. HE'S SOME KIND OF TOOL, NO DOUBT FOR THAT GREAT HEGELIAN PENDUMLUM HE BELIEVES IN. IT'S QUITE OBVIOUS. HE KNOWS NOTHING ELSE AND IS NOT EQUIPPED TO RECOGNIZE OR DEAL WITH REALITY, EVEN WHEN IT JUMPS UP AND BITES HIM IN THE ASS.
These policies don't work, Comrade. And hopefully, you won't be working for too much longer either.
Save the Republic.
What is it? Almost three years ago now, I wrote in this blog that if the $787 BILLION (that's almost a TRILLION) followed by an $410 BILLION Omnibus bill (that makes it MORE THAN A TRILLION) went through, there would be jobs for a short while -- as long as the money lasted -- and then we'd be stuck with nothing but debt. No recovery.
The Comrade and idiots like Paul Krugman said, No, the stimulus is going to resuscitate the economy and will bring a new day of economic paradise.
What actually happened here?
As the Comrade gears up for his big speech Thursday night, having secured the permission of congress to use congress as a classy background and a prop, word leaks about what he's going to propose. Not surprisingly, he's going to propose another stimulus.
God save us all from this ignoramus. Clearly, anyone who wants another stimulus is trying their damedest to destroy the nation. How much evidence do you need? Look at what the last stimulus did.
Are you better off now than you were three years ago?
Told a story once how under Nixon's stupid policies of price freezes, when the freeze came off, the price of bacon went from 89 cents a pound to $1.89. Last time I was at the store looking at bacon, it was $6.99 a pound.
Is that a good thing? Can anyone but a government employee survive with this shit? It's called "quantitative easing." Otherwise known as "fire up the printing presses and create a bunch of currency that's worth absolutely nothing." Like Germany between the wars.
How many times does the human race have to conduct these kinds of failed and destructive policies before it figures out they do more harm than good? Reality won't let us operate that way. All these policies do is consume and trash the resources of the nation and of individuals -- 'cause ultimately we have to pay for it all. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Carter had the double whammy of inflation and unemployment. The Comrade has inflation, unemployment, and a monstrous debt that he created and from which we may never recover.
The Comrade is presenting his proposal as the one and only solution. And he's dead serious, because he's demonstrated he knows nothing about capitalist economics, having been schooled in marxist fantasyland stuff. So more debt and failure being the only solution he offers, a wiser and better educated congress will likely refuse it. We can only hope.
Then the Comrade can campaign, "See, congress is standing in the way again."
Meanwhile Brain-dead Harry Reid (D-for-dumb Nevada), will not allow any serious and useful economic proposals to be heard on the floor of the Senate. So exactly who is blocking progress?
And the Comrade says the Republicans are blocking movement for political reasons. Actually, if Congress passes this bullshit, they'd be acting with such an abandonment of all principle and concern for the USA, they'd come close to equaling the hatred and contempt the Comrade has for this nation.
THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE NOTHING YET THAT ISN'T PURELY AND ENTIRELY POLITICAL. HE'S DEMONSTRATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT HE DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE USA, AS LONG HE BULLIES THROUGH HIS COMMUNIST POLICIES. HE'S SOME KIND OF TOOL, NO DOUBT FOR THAT GREAT HEGELIAN PENDUMLUM HE BELIEVES IN. IT'S QUITE OBVIOUS. HE KNOWS NOTHING ELSE AND IS NOT EQUIPPED TO RECOGNIZE OR DEAL WITH REALITY, EVEN WHEN IT JUMPS UP AND BITES HIM IN THE ASS.
These policies don't work, Comrade. And hopefully, you won't be working for too much longer either.
Save the Republic.
Friday, September 2, 2011
More federal "help"
Another brief note.
Big storm now hitting the Gulf coast -- Alabama, New Orleans...
Just saw on TV a deteriorating levee on the Gulf Coast. Local officials said the levee's been falling apart for about for a few months now. They put in for a permit to repair it a couple months ago at an estimated cost of $150,000. They still haven't got the permit.
With this current storm eating away at the levee, current estimate for repairs now $2 to $3 million.
Way to go! Isn't government great? It makes the trains run on time -- on some kind of time -- just like Mussolini.
Save the Republic.
Big storm now hitting the Gulf coast -- Alabama, New Orleans...
Just saw on TV a deteriorating levee on the Gulf Coast. Local officials said the levee's been falling apart for about for a few months now. They put in for a permit to repair it a couple months ago at an estimated cost of $150,000. They still haven't got the permit.
With this current storm eating away at the levee, current estimate for repairs now $2 to $3 million.
Way to go! Isn't government great? It makes the trains run on time -- on some kind of time -- just like Mussolini.
Save the Republic.
The lunatics in charge
Very briefly....
The US EPA has issued (even more) new rules to cripple the economy. These about smog -- only a problem in certain geographic areas, but the rules will cost something like $80 BILLION to private industry. They will no doubt force the closing or expensive retooling of much industrial capacity and probably will slow down the economy even more.
Speaker of the House John Boehner wrote the Comrade, informing his Hindness of these likely results. The Comrade says he will suspend the new rules, because, as a White House statement claims, the president has always tried to reduce regulations.
Laughed so hard my sides ache. Where have these White House people been for the last couple years? Venezuela on a federal grant-to-education? Soaking up the wit and wisdom of monkey-face Hugo Chavez? The Comrade has never met a debilitating regulation he doesn't like, especially if it's pointed at destroying the USA's energy industry. He promised during his campaign that he would destroy the energy industry and that seems to be one thing he's actually delivering.
Another news flash... apparently the US government is suing a bunch of banks for approving crappy mortgages. Funny.... 10 years ago, the US government was threatening to cut the banks out of the Fed if they DIDN'T approve crappy mortgages. I mean, 10 years ago, the US government was so damn sure it knew so much more about how to run a bank than bankers do. That assumption has proved to be entirely false, but it sure doesn't stop the US government from continuing to labor under its delusions of financial competence. Jeez, is Barney Fudd still in charge? Say it ain't so.
And we can always look to California for a good laugh. California is shutting down 70 state parks to save $22 million dollars. It's also just passed its own version of the Dream Act, agreeing to give the kids of illegal aliens free college educations, at an estimated cost of $80 BILLION.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Save the Republic.
The US EPA has issued (even more) new rules to cripple the economy. These about smog -- only a problem in certain geographic areas, but the rules will cost something like $80 BILLION to private industry. They will no doubt force the closing or expensive retooling of much industrial capacity and probably will slow down the economy even more.
Speaker of the House John Boehner wrote the Comrade, informing his Hindness of these likely results. The Comrade says he will suspend the new rules, because, as a White House statement claims, the president has always tried to reduce regulations.
Laughed so hard my sides ache. Where have these White House people been for the last couple years? Venezuela on a federal grant-to-education? Soaking up the wit and wisdom of monkey-face Hugo Chavez? The Comrade has never met a debilitating regulation he doesn't like, especially if it's pointed at destroying the USA's energy industry. He promised during his campaign that he would destroy the energy industry and that seems to be one thing he's actually delivering.
Another news flash... apparently the US government is suing a bunch of banks for approving crappy mortgages. Funny.... 10 years ago, the US government was threatening to cut the banks out of the Fed if they DIDN'T approve crappy mortgages. I mean, 10 years ago, the US government was so damn sure it knew so much more about how to run a bank than bankers do. That assumption has proved to be entirely false, but it sure doesn't stop the US government from continuing to labor under its delusions of financial competence. Jeez, is Barney Fudd still in charge? Say it ain't so.
And we can always look to California for a good laugh. California is shutting down 70 state parks to save $22 million dollars. It's also just passed its own version of the Dream Act, agreeing to give the kids of illegal aliens free college educations, at an estimated cost of $80 BILLION.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Save the Republic.
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