The New Robber Barons

Police are not in the business of preventing crime any more than social workers are interested in ending poverty.  As "The Beholden State" illustrates, they simply have no incentive to do it.  Both groups are government bureaucracies represented by collective bargaining agencies.  As such, they rely on increasing demand for their services each fiscal year.  They also rely on affirmative action set asides, quotas, threats of disparate impact lawsuits, and political payoffs to special interests to force employers to increase numbers of poorly qualified workers to compensate for inefficiencies created by abandoning merit hiring and promotion. 

This featherbedding artificially bloats the numbers of people who contribute to public employee bargaining agencies, which in turn, increases the amount of money available for political action committees to money-launder cash back to the very politicians who enforce and expand the bureaucrats’ ability to extort money from taxpayers through collective bargaining.  Let us examine this scenario.

Crooked politicians gave the collectivists a monopoly on supplying labor to taxpayers.  Since there is no alternative source competing to supply the public, they can command exorbitant prices for inferior goods and services.  Taxpayers have no recourse because the people responsible for protecting their interests depend upon money for re-election from the people who are robbing them.  Public employee collective bargaining agencies are today’s Robber Barons; only, it is not monopolies' control of salt, petroleum, or railroads.  The modern hustle forces taxpayers to purchase the labor necessary for the wheels of government to turn from greedy, corrupt, and violent middlemen.

In return, these intermediaries give political and economic support to their hirelings in government.  The complicit executive and legislative branches of government have been staffing the judicial branch with compliant lawyers-in-black-robes who eschew the rule of law and ignore the federal Constitution to decide cases on political expedience.  They and their regulators have prevented Boeing from opening a $1 billion plant in South Carolina.  They are instituting Card Check to end the time honored secret ballot so that union thugs can learn which employees’ cars to vandalize and where to send intimidating messages.

We can procrastinate no longer.  All of us who are weary of carrying on our backs corrupt politicians and their greedy public worker cohorts should take heart.  In just over one year, we can finish the job begun in 2010 and send them a message.  In the words of Kerosene Maxine Waters, “You can go straight to h-e-double hockey sticks.”

May your gods be with you.

Hurry 2012

The photo at the left is of some SEIU communists exercising their Constitutional rights to violence, aggression, and extortion. 

For all of you who have been annoyed, frustrated, and endangered by those among us who are addicted to their phones, pods, pads, and other battery operated devices, there is a glimmer of hope.  The First Amendment does not confer the right to drive recklessly while using one or more of these devices.

Maryland is joining a small number of states that have banned cell phone use while driving.  It only takes a few people who have too little ram to converse and drive safely and who wander across traffic lanes to ruin things for everyone.  If only we could do something about those drivers who threaten our lives and property by searching through briefcases and purses, changing diapers, leering at other drivers, combing hair, and applying makeup.  No, don't go there.  The guys are as bad or worse than the gals.

There is a growing movement to ban driving while device-impaired.  Perhaps revenue from fines for these offenses could help to pull some state budgets out of the red.  It is believed that for the Florida cities of Lawtey and Waldo, the loss of money from speed trap fines would cause their governments to collapse.

Here is an example of what the party of government plans to do.  The people who have been watching their retirement nest eggs dwindle should be thrilled to learn that $165b in tax dollars will be given away to private pension funds for the already overpaid.

Have you heard about the thugs in government unions?  Try this on for size.

There should be no surprise that we have become a nation of obese people.  The trend may well have begun when people who played golf for exercise took to using golf carts that carried them and their clubs about as they consumed large amounts of calories in the form of alcohol.  Today's young people, rather than benefiting from exercise and fresh air by playing soccer, have this.

Just look what has happened under O-buma and the mommy staters, that is besides the teeny little oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

When is bribery not bribery?  It is apparently not if it is attempted by O-buma and the Theftocrats. 

In the movie Gladiator, Joaquin Phoenix (emperor Commodus) told Russell Crowe (Maximus) that "you simply won't die."  For O-bumaHolder, this is a story that simply won't die.  It is most revealing that the organization Judicial Watch (Because no one is above the law) is leading the charge to uncover the coverup.  True to form, the Presstitute hypocrites are busily spiking the story.  These are the same folks who crowed loudly about their part in drumming Richard Nixon out of office for covering up wrongdoing.

While on the topic of deception, the lapdog media are enemies of this nation.  The proof is in this publication.  The people who claim that O-buma was unaware of this order have all of the credibility of the Kennedy era liars who alleged that some G-13 was responsible for the Bay of Pigs disaster.

After such stressful and depressing news, maybe this will help.

May your gods be with you.

I'm from the Government, and I'm here to Help

O-buma and the Congressional Theftocrats have sold Americans a bill of goods, and far too few of us recognize the shafting that we are getting from their WelfareHealthCare.  This is living proof of their intentions to keep low income single mothers permanently relegated to the federal welfare plantation.


Notice that these nefarious social engineers have created another marriage tax that acts as an economic disincentive for marriage.  The mommy staters argue in favor of punishing married people by claiming that two can live together on less that it takes for them to live separately.  Understand the reasoning here.  First, government should supply each of us according to need.  From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs...didn't someone named Marx say this?


Second and most important, they have acted to ensure that those of us who have behaved responsibly and prudently have our earnings confiscated to subsidize those who behave irresponsibly and imprudently.  There is something seriously amiss with this system of federally subsidized fecklessness.  We offer economic incentives for breeding TANF recipients, and we punish those who plan intelligently and live within their means.

Slackers pay nothing and get a lot; worker bees pay a lot and get the green weenie.  The bees have it right.  When their food supply dwindles to such low levels that the colony is threatened, they stop feeding the drones.  One can gain sobering insights from observing the natural world.


That we are a socialist nation hardly bears repeating, but that we are also totalitarian is most often revealed anecdotally so that the nationwide pattern is obscured.  Political liberty is unavailable in nations wherein citizens are prosecuted and persecuted for thoughtcrime.

The Head Hypocrite and his minions Feckless Barney Frank, Red Harry Reid, and Pelosi the Pinko are heaping criticism on the Wall Street crowd.  It is that same crowd that has been lining the pockets of Theftocrats for years.  People who bite the hand that feeds them are genuinely shameless.  Just take a look at what the government unions have done to New Jersey.

The same dim bulbs who invented Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act that collapsed our economy have profited handsomely from those agencies.  The heavy hand of government is expensive when it regulates and taxes  free trade.

At first glance, giving government the privilege of stripping Americans of their citizenship for committing acts of terrorism may sound good; however, who defines an act as terroristic?  How long will it be before the likes of someone such as Eric Holder, the head of the department of injustice, defines it such that it means those who support the Second Amendment?

Do you like to use the Web?  Enjoy it while you are still able to do it.  Does anyone remember hearing the old lie that "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help," just before it hit the fan?  If you believe that the government's motivation is "ensuring fair competition and preserving a free and open Internet," let me sell you some hurricane proof real estate in Key West.  The way that they ensure competition is exemplified by SEIU and the Postal Service.

May your gods be with you.