Federal Fecklessness

George Will likes to refer to the Congressional Theftocrats as the "party of government."  His analysis of the Obumites' tactics, antics, and rhetorical and legislative endeavors is insightfully accurate.  The recent health care fiasco will soon become another bloated leviathan.  If it stands, in ten years Obumacare will no more resemble today's legislation than today's Social Security Administration does the original 1935 Act.

California, Texas, and now Arizona have created policies or laws to protect their citizens and to prevent them from having to bear the costs of illegal immivasion.  Unfortunately, these laws have or are about to be undone by can't-be-fired bureaucrats in black robes.  These appointed-for-life subversives are busy creating by judicial fiat the legislation that their cowardly cousins in Congress lack the spine to enact.

This is how the Loopy Left operates.  They want to increase the size of their permanent welfare constituency by making our borders porous.  They intentionally underfund ICE so that the agency is overwhelmed by the rush of bodies.  Then when the individual states take action, the feds' black robed villains strike down the effective countermeasures.

The costs of illegal immigration in California, Texas, and Arizona are staggering, not to mention Illinois and Florida.  A few billion dollars here and a few billion dollars there and before you know it, we're into some real money.  As Georgie Ann Geyer recognized , the prime directive of ICE is to secure our borders to protect Americans.  With O-buma, the agency's role has become facilitating Congressional Theftocrats' schemes to import welfare recipients.

If this seems like satire or parody, have a look at your tax dollars at work.

Finally, this is from just a few years ago.  It is amazing what a Theftocrat organized economic meltdown can accomplish.

May your gods be with you.

Education in America

It has not been just the laziness and ineptitude of far too many teachers that has caused education to fail in this country.  Greedy trial lawyers' use of frivolous lawsuits to establish demographic quotas for school suspensions has left educators with virtually no means to discipline unruly students. 

This is but one reason that we should support education vouchers for private schools.  It might be justified to respect, or at least take seriously, someone who shoves a gun into your face and robs you.  A person who pencil whips you deserves absolutely no respect.

On the topic of furtive and devious behavior, American universities are factories of progressive propaganda that champion the socialist, totalitarian, and fascist form of government that they have put into place.  These institutions foster the education colleges that produce classroom teachers who inculcate into unsuspecting children values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are consistent with progressives' ideals.  They are responsible for giving students diplomas that they cannot read.

These videos are two good examples of the products of American education.

It is a dreadful mistake to allow these people to bargain collectively.  Government unions are antithetical to public interest.  The reason for collective bargaining is to gain leverage against employers.  First, they are not employees; they are overhead.  Second, the leverage is against us, the taxpayers.  Now in Florida, we have the recently outed Communist Charlie Christ who, in an act of political groveling, vetoed proposed legislation that would have eliminated tenure and established merit pay for teachers.

This article and its video version offer 10 suggestions that will greatly improve academic achievement in the US.  These recommendations, along with removing political indoctrination from the curriculum, would go a long way toward improving education.  By the way, we should also end the practice of paying tenured professors to conduct ersatz research in Provence for three months each summer while graduate teaching assistants substitute for them in their classrooms.

May your gods be with you.

The hoods are at it again.  O-buma and the Congressional Theftocrats are continuing to rape, pillage, and plunder the nation.  First, they stole one sixth of the nation's GDP by nationalizing the health care industry because those businesses committed the egregious crime of making a 3.4% profit.  Now they are using the contrived excuse that the financial mess they caused with the Communist Redistribution Act--this is a primary cause of the recent economic meltdown--justifies stealing the nation's financial sector of the US economy.

Speaking of stealing, if the Theftocrats want to institute a national sales tax (VAT) why not repeal the sixteenth amendment to the Constitution and eliminate federal income taxes?  Opponents of the VAT claim that it places a greater burden on people who have lower incomes.  Does the formula that justifies that argument take into account these forms of revenue and tax benefits?

• cost free housing and utilities
• cost free food
• welfare healthcare
• no federal income tax
• (un)earned income tax credit federal welfare check

A cost free four bedroom apartment including utilities can be worth thirty to forty thousand dollars a year.  Free food benefits from SNAP for a single parent and four TANF recipients is about $9500 per year.  The costs to taxpayers for welfare healthcare are virtually unlimited.  Federal income tax rates for the highest levels are about 40%; add another 15% combined taxes for social security and the benefits of riding in the federal wagon are clear.  With an additional $5500 from the unearned income tax credit program, a single parent with four TANF recipients can receive over $50,000 of unearned and untaxed revenue, goods and services, and in kind contributions that someone else produced.

To make the claim that sales taxes are regressive is to ignore significant amounts of untaxed revenue.  The argument is dissembling based upon specious reasoning.

May your gods be with you.