Change We Simply Cannot Believe

If you who voted for Change We Can Believe In, did you know that one change that the O-boob wanted to make was to increase by 125,000 annually the number of Americans who will die of cancer?  Donald Berwick is soon to be a recess appointee who will run Medicare and Medicaid.  His plan is to provide too little health care (Cap) with the certain knowledge that the benefit will be to allow untreated people to die (trade).  This is planned and forced euthanasia, or execution without due process.

From Berwick: "You plan the supply; you aim a bit low; you prefer too little of a technology or a service to too much."  Under-supplying culls people at the margins.  They have begun with the elderly by cutting out hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare.  They begin with the elderly; then, it is the severely disabled.  From there, they nibble away at anyone who is not part of the High Command.  Seig heil! 

Government steals the health care industry.  Congress, federal bureaucrats, government and private sector union members are exempted.  Too little health care is provided to the taxpayers.  Hundreds of thousands die for lack of care.  Federal bureaucrats will be in charge of rationing.  Anyone who cannot recognize that the rationers will see to it that those who opposed the nationalization of the health care industry will be on the short end of the rationing stick, please contact me.  I have a bridge to sell.

Another aspect of the mommy staters' WelfareHealthCare is the fines that will be levied against employers.  Businesses will be fined $3000 for each employee whose portion of a health premium exceeds 9.5% of his household income.  This company would lose over half of its annual income to the theft welfare state.  Little, if any, expansion would be possible, and many fewer jobs would be available where they "are needed most--in lower income areas."  The upshot of this hustle is that--surprise--more people will be dependent upon the mommy state.

This is standard procedure Theftocrat politics: steal other people's resources, exploit the contrived loss of employment to expand the welfare state, keep the newly created drones trapped on the federal welfare plantation, buy their votes with the resources that were stolen in the first place.  Oh, and one other thing, magically deem into being a non-existent budget to hide the money trail. 

One of the activities at which the Duplicitous Dunces truly excel is job killing.  Despite outward appearances, not all of them are stupid.  They recognize their handiwork.  They also understand that the "nation's working-age population grows by about 150,000 a month."  It would immediately require over 10 million new jobs to put America back to work at the level that we were at three years ago.  If it takes three years to recover, " more than 3.5 million additional jobs will be needed because of continued population growth."

It is the continuing outrage.  First the subsidy, then the takeover.

That should be enough bad news for one day.  Here is a 30 minute fireworks display sped up to three minutes.  It's a bit like a turn of the century herky jerky, hand cranked film only in color.

This is an amazing safety advance.

Boeing's new stealth transport plane looks promising.  Also, this solar plane could fly around the clock.  It could be most useful to surveil the US-Mexico border.

Finally, Jim Carrey does Red Skelton.

May your gods be with you.  

Rip'emoff Reid and Company

O-buma's Porkulous has failed to stimulate jobs growth.  That is unless the 411,000 temporary government employees who were hired by the US Census Bureau are taken into account.  Government simply cannot create private sector jobs.  What government agents can do is to increase the numbers of bureaucrats.  

To do this, it is necessary to increase spending; to increase spending, it is necessary to increase taxation.  This takes money from the private sector, which in turn decreases the very resources required to create private sector jobs.  

If you fail to recognize that the party-of-government Theftocrats want to increase the number of people who are dependent on the government welfare plantation, let me sell you some hurricane proof real estate in the Florida Keys.  Sadly, it seems as though there is no stunt, scheme, or scam so low that O-buma and the corruptocrats will not stoop to it.

The time has come to disenfranchise government unions.

May your gods be with you.

Supply and Demand

Guess who was British Petroleum Company's largest recipient of campaign money in the 2008 election.  It was the squeaky clean, environmentally green Barack O-buma.  It's not too shocking.  However, neither he nor his Congressional associates are returning the money.  Betting on the favorite in a race is smart money.  As Damon Runyon put it, the "race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."

Now, Bo is calling for an investigation by the Department of the Interior, and offshore drilling proponents are disappearing like illegal aliens in Arizona.  It may be bad timing to make this contention, but abandoning oil exploration and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico merely strengthens our enemies.  We did not de-fund and dismantle NASA after the Challenger crash.

We continue to help our adversaries by allowing Mexico and other countries to export their unemployment to the US and onto the taxpayers' backs.  We have enough unemployment already.  Just as is the case with illegal drugs, there would be few illegal immigrants here if there were no demand.  William F. Buckley pointed out many years ago that the drug trade is demand driven.

If Americans want to smoke pot, the government could grow, distribute, advertise, and sell it at so low a cost as to drive smugglers out of business much in the way that we dealt with bootlegging.

As we do with domestic drug lords, we can also do to those who import illegal labor.  If we seize the assets that they acquire with the profits made from using illegally imported labor, fine them, and jail them if they are repeat offenders, we can significantly decrease the demand for illegal labor.  Still, there are other steps that we can take to stem the tide of unlawful border crossings.

We can change the federal Constitution such that we do not automatically confer citizenship to children who are born to women who are in this country illegally.  No more anchor babies means no more wholesale importation of taxpayer burdens from abroad.  Requiring proof of citizenship as a requirement for staying in a homeless shelter or receiving medical care could help also.  Nonetheless, we can do even more.

By identifying the industries and businesses that are most heavily invested in the use of illegals, we could apply a progressive tax based upon the number of violations that a company commits.  Levying a progressive tax would reward businesses that abide by the law to avoid the tax altogether, to punish lawbreakers commensurately, and to offset some of the costs of immigration control.

On the good news front, Raul Castro is widening his embrace of capitalism.  His decision to include foreign investment in the tourism industry will bring much needed cash into the country, but more important, greater numbers of Cubans will see firsthand how free trade and a free society go hand and hand.  It would be a welcome change if the privilege of holding title to land were restored to the Cuban people.  During his regime, Fidel recognized that one of the most effective ways to keep a people in servitude is to keep them landless.

May your gods be with you.

Do Obumoids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Except when corrupt politicians skew data by limiting research only to convenient information, overemphasizing or deempathizing it, and under or overstating projections and intentions, the Congressional Budget Office historically has been the nation's most reliable predictor of how federal policies will affect the economy.

In his State of the Union address, O-buma claimed that in 2010 jobs would be his main focus.  What he did not tell us was that his plans will mean fewer rather than more jobs.  The O-bumites are pushing what they call "green jobs."  This term is oxymoronic on at least two points.  First, the so-called jobs are mostly bureaucratic positions that are little more than overhead borne by taxpayers.  Second and most important, the CBO advises that these policies will result in a "decline in employment."

Once again, the sheeple claim that less is more.

The green jobs hustle has already failed in Spain, Germany, and Denmark, so why would the Kenyan Genius Messiah pursue a failed experiment?  Because he can and because we allow government to herd us around like pigeons looking for peanuts.

Due to our apathetic lack of resolve and commitment, we have allowed the Party-of-Government Congressional Theftocrats to give themselves a license to steal.  When they enact policies that, oh darn the luck, increase unemployment, they benefit from it by adding to the numbers of people who are dependent on their brand of government.

CBO also projects that because O-buma and his merry band of thieves are squandering America's future we will, in less than ten years, have accumulated debt totaling 90% of our GDP.  Margaret Thatcher was right, we are running out of other people's money.

Hopefully, people are also running out of patience with Communist Charlie Crist.  Now, he is comparing himself with Abraham Lincoln.  Charlie, Charlie, have ye no shame? 

Another group that suffers from his sort of messianic neuroses is the National Education Association.  They have devalued religion and religious ethical precepts--they make a special exception for Islam and its Sharia law--in favor of paganism.  This is part of their No-Standard-is-too-Low strategy of indoctrinating rather than educating children.  Unholywood is leading the charge.

For everyone who has been threatened by rogue or feral animals while exercise walking, hiking, or jogging, it is possible to do so in relative safety.

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

May your gods be with you.