08.28.10

Let’s get some accurate numbers

Posted in American military, Government spending at 7:34 pm by Administrator

Zbigniew Marzurak at The American Thinker on the real figures regarding the defense outlay – in this fiscal year and in general – as a percentage of GDP and of the overall budget.  Don’t buy this hooey about how it’s “bloated” and would be a great place to make big budget cuts.

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08.22.10

This one’s easy enough to smack them down on

Posted in Government spending, Socialism, health care at 3:03 pm by Administrator

How’s this for obscene?  FHer apparatchiks are advising FHer Congresspeople not to bring up cost reduction when discussing FHer-care.

The main point on which they attempted to sell it to us (and never did, per poll numbers both before and since its passage) was that it was going to make the American health care system less expensive.

Well, okay, now that we know what they’re terrified of us bringing up, let’s bring it up – often and loudly.

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08.09.10

They’re still counting on you to believe that the money doesn’t really have to come from an actual anywhere

Posted in Congress, Education, Government spending at 3:01 pm by Administrator

Michelle Malkin on the “EduJobs” bill.

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08.08.10

Your hard-earned tax dollars going directly to corrupt race hustlers

Posted in Corruption, Corruption in Congress, Government spending, Race card at 4:10 pm by Administrator

 . . . and Charlie Rangel is at the center of it.  No surprise there.

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07.13.10

It’s the spending

Posted in Government spending, tax policy at 12:41 pm by Administrator

Brian Reidl of the Heritage Foundation has a great WSJ column on how the argument that W-era tax cuts caused the jaw-dropping growth in deficit projections is a big smokescreen for what’s really going on.

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06.27.10

He thinks denial is leadership

Posted in Barack Obama, Government spending at 1:40 pm by Administrator

It’s quite a spectacle occurring at the G8/G20 summit in Totonto.  TCM exhorting the other powers to keep spending “stimulus” money – i.e., money that’s not there.  They get it and he’s the one looking isolated by virture of his cluelessness.

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06.25.10

If he were a woman, would he get this treatment?

Posted in Celebrity worship, Government spending, Human nature, human sexuality at 12:24 pm by Administrator

Mona Charen on outgoing budget director Peter Orszag and the two most noteworthy things about him – his disingenuousness in coming up with presentable numbers for FHer-care, and his chaotic sex life.  She uses her examination to raise some important cultural points about postmodern morality, the fawning celebrity media, the fallacy of early feminism’s attempt to deny differences between men and women, and postmodern society’s utter disregard for childhood.

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06.22.10

Here comes more forcible seizure of what’s rightfully yours

Posted in Government spending, tax policy at 4:58 pm by Administrator

Steny Hoyer says there will be no budget resolution this year, but there will be tax increases.

Pathetic. Chilling.  Enraging.

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06.19.10

The bus driver has a snootful and is careening headlong toward the edge of the cliff

Posted in Government spending at 11:26 am by Administrator

Now it’s a bailout package for the states.  As we approach November, it’s going to be quite easy to pinpoint those federal legislators who are on record as behaving as if the money doesn’t have to come from anywhere.

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06.14.10

If a state or city is out of money, isn’t that the problem of that state or city?

Posted in Government spending at 12:35 am by Administrator

Not in TCM’s world.  He sends Congress a Saturday night plea for federal funds for cash-strapped entities in which lots of union parasites dwell.

As the recent post on health insurance for the unemployed points out, it’s heartening to see an increasing number of legislators say, “We’ve seen the books, and there is no money.”

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06.13.10

The money is so not there for any more of this stuff that even many of the statism-inclined get it now

Posted in Congress, Government spending, health care at 7:19 pm by Administrator

Congress won’t be extending health insurance benefits for the unemployed.

Cut taxes and regulation and these people could go back to work.  But that’s not the post-American way.

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06.11.10

Our culture’s struggle for the legitimate use of the term “mainstream”

Posted in Government bureaucracy, Government spending, Politics at 12:30 pm by Administrator

Mona Charen has a great column today on how Harry Reid is going to try to paint Sharron Angle as a nutcase because she’d like to see the Department of Education closed up.  (She’d also like to see Social Security phased out, the IRS abolished, and the US withdrawn from the UN.  It’s going to be delicious to see Harry Reid come to his embarrasingly public realization that millions and millions of Americans also would like to see these developments, and sooner, not later.)  Angle would do well to trumpet the litany of failures on the part of the DoE as her handy response to Harry as he gets his campaign underway.  The idea that there’s anything fringe about shutting down a massive government entity wasting billions of dollars is a phantom held only by those whistling past the graveyard.

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06.05.10

Where in the hell did the stinking government get the idea that whether a business model is sustainable (jeez I hate that word) or not is any of its business?

Posted in Government spending, Journalism, Socialism at 9:25 pm by Administrator

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the plausibility of taxing websites like the Drudge Report.  Out of concern for the institution of journalism, doncha know:

The ideas being batted around to save the industry share a common theme: They are designed to empower bureaucrats, not consumers. For instance, one proposal would, “Allow news organizations to agree jointly on a mechanism to require news aggregators and others to pay for the use of online content, perhaps through the use of copyright licenses.”

In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. Such a tax would hit other news aggregators, such as Digg, Fark and Reddit, which not only gather links, but provide a forum for a lively and entertaining discussion of the issues raised by the stories. Fostering a robust public-policy debate, not saving a particular business model, should be the goal of journalism in the first place.

The report also discusses the possibility of offering tax exemptions to news organizations, establishing an AmeriCorps for reporters and creating a national fund for local news organizations. The money for those benefits would come from a suite of new taxes. A 5 percent tax on consumer electronic devices such as iPads, Kindles and laptops that let consumers read the news could be used to encourage people to keep reading the dead-tree version of the news. Other taxes might be levied on the radio and television spectrum, advertising and cell phones.

Where to start with the totalitarian nature of this whole line of thought?  It’s naked redistribution.  It’s naked censorship.  It’s blatant propping up of an industry, which is waaaaaay, waaaaaay outside the government’s constitutional purview.

Take a good, square look at what’s happening folks.  We can’t procrastinate this fight.  This is the domestic front in World War III.

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06.03.10

The CBO decides that, with the horse already out of the barn, now is the time for stark candor

Posted in Government spending, health care at 1:40 pm by Administrator

New CBO charts and graphs and explanations of how FHer-care is fiscally unsustainable – and how FHers knew this and lied about it.

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05.26.10

Just wow

Posted in Economics, Government bureaucracy, Government spending, Socialism at 12:18 pm by Administrator

The portion of American’s income from the private sector reached an all-time low last month, and the portion derived from government entitlements reached an all-time high.

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05.24.10

None of these matters is isolated

Posted in Appeasement of rogues, Brazil, China, Corruption of the scientific world, Diciness of Western civilization's survival prospects, Diplomacy - ineffective and effective, Government spending, Iran, National Security, North Korea, Nuclear proliferation, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey at 12:02 pm by Administrator

Caroline Glick’s Townhall column today demonstrates the interconnectedness of the various and sundry matters vexing us at present.

No one – not South Korea, the U.S. or any international body – is going to do anything substantive in response to the North Korean sinking of the Cheonon. 

North Korea completed a successful fusion test recently, meaning it is preparing to add hydrogen bombs to its nuclear arsenal.

All the Turkey-Brazil deal with Iran did was demonstrate the ascendancy of all three countries.  It changes nothing about the timeline for Iran being able to make nuclear bombs.  That’s plural, and that timeline is measured in months.

Arms of the most lethal sort continue to make their way to Hizbollah in southern Lebanon.

China will build two more nucler reactors in Pakistan.

Why are those with the most to lose acting like their hands are tied in this scenario?  Because China cannot be brought on board, not to knock it off with the nuclear projects with Pakistan, not with getting stern with North Korea, not with meaningful sanctions against Iran.

There is this little matter of its financing of the U.S.’s ever-growing debt.  And that leads right back to Pennsylvania Avenue, to spending already in place, like the stimulus and socialist health care, as well as the spending in the pipeline, like the banking-reform bill that just passed the Senate, as well as this “infrastructure” monstrosity Congress wants to pass as soon as possible.  Let us also not forget cap-and-trade, which refuses to die, no matter how badly “climate science” has been disgraced.

We’re on our own, folks.

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05.12.10

When the FHer Politburo lies to the CBO . . .

Posted in Corruption in Congress, Economics, Government spending, health care at 1:38 pm by Administrator

 . . . it makes it possible for socialist health care to get passed, but the true numbers eventually come out, and we see how much our already terrifying deficit will really balloon – like an anyeurism.

There are lots of articles and punditry pieces right now looking at how the Greece crisis affects, and provides lessons regarding, our situation in the post-American People’s Republic of Obamica.  Take them seriously.  And also get your brain around the extend of the madness and power-lust motivating our overlords.  They don’t care about debts and deficits and the crisis they lead to.  They are so obsessed with socialist transformation that they are willing to lie about the grave damage to the nation’s fiscal health that they are inflicting.

And that’s just on the economic front.  They wreak equivalent levels of damage on the security and cultural fronts as well.

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05.04.10

We have learned the secret identity of Captain Obvious

Posted in Economics, Government spending at 3:43 pm by Administrator

It is Ben Bernanke.

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04.05.10

TCM has the Cloward-Piven strategy down cold

Posted in Diciness of Western civilization's survival prospects, Government spending at 4:20 pm by Administrator

There’s enough of a consensus that our nation’s debt level is ruinous that the MSM is speaking plainly about it.

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03.28.10

“A $106 trillion cash infusion is required today to make these programs solvent. But the net worth of the entire country is only about $55 trillion.”

Posted in Government spending, health care at 3:10 pm by Administrator

Monty Pelerin at Pajamas Media on the hair-raising simple math of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. 

And FHer-care expands the expenditure exponentially.

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