So much stuff going on in America, where should we begin and what, if anything, happening now will actually change anything in America? So Arizonans want to stop illegal immigration in their state. Good for them. Anyone ever asks me for an I.D. can go fuck themselves. But then again I do not speak with an accent, I am over five foot tall and I do not look like I pick fruit or landscape all day. That may sound racist but understand that we all look different it is not racist it is a fact for the most part you can pick out the difference between a "white" person born in North America and one born in Europe. So it is pretty freakin obvious to pick out a south or central American in Arizona, especially when they start speaking. Oh, by the way, every green card MUST have it on their person at all times. I guess it just does not pay to be born here or here legally in Obama's America, we just do not have any rights. Revs Jesse and Al are going down there to walk and protest and extort, wow something new for them. But race baiting to get paid is their M.O. always has been always will be hell, it beats working I guess. Here is the real problem your president hates America, hates this bill and really hates white people ditto for the attorney general. They have already attacked U.S. citizens on other issues they are really going to after a whole state this time. They are sending in the Revs to recon the situation. After the reports back to Washington Assface will decide what to do. I think there will be violence during these marches I do not think in this political atmosphere that tempers will be kept under control. Besides Arizona is a hot place. Arizona has had enough of being invaded from the Mexican border and they are doing something about it; now the invasion is coming from Washington are the citizens of Arizona gonna do something about that too. It could be an interesting weekend.
Now America is trying to bail on this state "sanctuary cities" are citing this states lack of compassion as are some "compassionate conservatives" like Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush. Hey guys, shut the fuck up you do not live there. Why don't I shut the fuck up then I don't live there either, simple I have the same shit going on in this state. Our governor is trying to break the death grip that unions have this state in. The teachers in this are whining like there is no tomorrow with Facebook sites and anti-Chris Christie prayers. Hell I even know one guy who has called three Congressman to bitch and cry. But this is the teacher's union mentality go out of your district and harass these politicians. Not that I mind them harassing pols after all they are ALL parasites living off of the taxpayers. Both sides lie both sides bitch and moan and as always the taxpayers get screwed but now it is sanctioned in Obama's America. Personally I hope Christie fires all the teachers like Reagan and the air-traffic controllers. I guess what I am trying to get across here is that from New Jersey to Arizona taxpayers are fed up with the liberal bullshit and lack of help from the federal government. These are very exciting times we are living in. Is this the Change shithead envisioned while on the campaign trail?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
From The "No Shit Sherlock" Files
No comment from me really needed for this one other than; clearly this government is part of the problem.
Report: Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation's Tab
Associated Press
A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the new health care law will expand insurance
but won't reduce runaway costs
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law will increase the nation's health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation.
A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the health care remake will achieve Obama's aim of expanding health insurance -- adding 34 million Americans to the coverage rolls.
But the analysis also found that the law falls short of the president's twin goal of controlling runaway costs, raising projected spending by about 1 percent over 10 years. That increase could get bigger, however, since the report also warned that Medicare cuts in the law may be unrealistic and unsustainable, forcing lawmakers to roll them back.
The mixed verdict for Obama's signature issue is the first comprehensive look by neutral experts.
In particular, the warnings about Medicare could become a major political liability for Democratic lawmakers in the midterm elections. The report projected that Medicare cuts could drive about 15 percent of hospitals and other institutional providers into the red, "possibly jeopardizing access" to care for seniors.
The report from Medicare's Office of the Actuary carried a disclaimer saying it does not represent the official position of the Obama administration. White House officials have repeatedly complained that such analyses have been too pessimistic and lowball the law's potential to achieve savings.
The report acknowledged that some of the cost-control measures in the bill -- Medicare cuts, a tax on high-cost insurance and a commission to seek ongoing Medicare savings -- could help reduce the rate of cost increases beyond 2020. But it held out little hope for progress in the first decade.
"During 2010-2019, however, these effects would be outweighed by the increased costs associated with the expansions of health insurance coverage," wrote Richard S. Foster, Medicare's chief actuary. "Also, the longer-term viability of the Medicare ... reductions is doubtful." Foster's office is responsible for long-range costs estimates.
Republicans said the findings validate their concerns about Obama's 10-year, nearly $1 trillion plan to remake the nation's health care system.
"A trillion dollars gets spent, and it's no surprise -- health care costs are going to go up," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., a leading Republican on health care issues. Camp added that he's concerned the Medicare cuts will undermine care for seniors.
Congress in the past has enacted deeper Medicare cuts without disrupting service, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a statement that sought to highlight some positive findings for seniors. For example, the report concluded that Medicare monthly premiums would be lower than otherwise expected, due to the spending reductions.
"The Affordable Care Act will improve the health care system for all Americans and we will continue our work to quickly and carefully implement the new law," the statement said.
Passed by a divided Congress after a year of bitter partisan debate, the law would create new health insurance markets for individuals and small businesses. Starting in 2014, most Americans would be required to carry health insurance except in cases of financial hardship. Tax credits would help many middle-class households pay their premiums, while Medicaid would pick up more low-income people. Insurers would be required to accept all applicants, regardless of their health.
A separate Congressional Budget Office analysis, also released Thursday, estimated that 4 million households would be hit with tax penalties under the law for failing to get insurance.
The U.S. spends $2.5 trillion a year on health care, far more per person than any other developed nation, and for results that aren't clearly better when compared to more frugal countries. At the outset of the health care debate last year, Obama held out the hope that by bending the cost curve down, the U.S. could cover all its citizens for about what the nation would spend absent any reforms. The report found that the president's law missed the mark, although not by much. The overhaul will increase national health care spending by $311 billion from 2010-2019, or nine-tenths of 1 percent. To put that in perspective, total health care spending during the decade is estimated to surpass $35 trillion.
Administration officials argue the increase is a bargain price for guaranteeing coverage to 95 percent of Americans. They also point out that the law will decrease the federal deficit by $143 billion over the 10-year period, even if overall health care spending rises.
The report's most sober assessments concerned Medicare.
In addition to flagging the cuts to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers as potentially unsustainable, it projected that reductions in payments to private Medicare Advantage plans would trigger an exodus from the popular program. Enrollment would plummet by about 50 percent, as the plans reduce extra benefits that they currently offer. Seniors leaving the private plans would still have health insurance under traditional Medicare, but many might face higher out-of-pocket costs.
In another flashing yellow light, the report warned that a new voluntary long-term care insurance program created under the law faces "a very serious risk" of insolvency.
Report: Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation's Tab
Associated Press
A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the new health care law will expand insurance
but won't reduce runaway costs
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law will increase the nation's health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation.
A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the health care remake will achieve Obama's aim of expanding health insurance -- adding 34 million Americans to the coverage rolls.
But the analysis also found that the law falls short of the president's twin goal of controlling runaway costs, raising projected spending by about 1 percent over 10 years. That increase could get bigger, however, since the report also warned that Medicare cuts in the law may be unrealistic and unsustainable, forcing lawmakers to roll them back.
The mixed verdict for Obama's signature issue is the first comprehensive look by neutral experts.
In particular, the warnings about Medicare could become a major political liability for Democratic lawmakers in the midterm elections. The report projected that Medicare cuts could drive about 15 percent of hospitals and other institutional providers into the red, "possibly jeopardizing access" to care for seniors.
The report from Medicare's Office of the Actuary carried a disclaimer saying it does not represent the official position of the Obama administration. White House officials have repeatedly complained that such analyses have been too pessimistic and lowball the law's potential to achieve savings.
The report acknowledged that some of the cost-control measures in the bill -- Medicare cuts, a tax on high-cost insurance and a commission to seek ongoing Medicare savings -- could help reduce the rate of cost increases beyond 2020. But it held out little hope for progress in the first decade.
"During 2010-2019, however, these effects would be outweighed by the increased costs associated with the expansions of health insurance coverage," wrote Richard S. Foster, Medicare's chief actuary. "Also, the longer-term viability of the Medicare ... reductions is doubtful." Foster's office is responsible for long-range costs estimates.
Republicans said the findings validate their concerns about Obama's 10-year, nearly $1 trillion plan to remake the nation's health care system.
"A trillion dollars gets spent, and it's no surprise -- health care costs are going to go up," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., a leading Republican on health care issues. Camp added that he's concerned the Medicare cuts will undermine care for seniors.
Congress in the past has enacted deeper Medicare cuts without disrupting service, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a statement that sought to highlight some positive findings for seniors. For example, the report concluded that Medicare monthly premiums would be lower than otherwise expected, due to the spending reductions.
"The Affordable Care Act will improve the health care system for all Americans and we will continue our work to quickly and carefully implement the new law," the statement said.
Passed by a divided Congress after a year of bitter partisan debate, the law would create new health insurance markets for individuals and small businesses. Starting in 2014, most Americans would be required to carry health insurance except in cases of financial hardship. Tax credits would help many middle-class households pay their premiums, while Medicaid would pick up more low-income people. Insurers would be required to accept all applicants, regardless of their health.
A separate Congressional Budget Office analysis, also released Thursday, estimated that 4 million households would be hit with tax penalties under the law for failing to get insurance.
The U.S. spends $2.5 trillion a year on health care, far more per person than any other developed nation, and for results that aren't clearly better when compared to more frugal countries. At the outset of the health care debate last year, Obama held out the hope that by bending the cost curve down, the U.S. could cover all its citizens for about what the nation would spend absent any reforms. The report found that the president's law missed the mark, although not by much. The overhaul will increase national health care spending by $311 billion from 2010-2019, or nine-tenths of 1 percent. To put that in perspective, total health care spending during the decade is estimated to surpass $35 trillion.
Administration officials argue the increase is a bargain price for guaranteeing coverage to 95 percent of Americans. They also point out that the law will decrease the federal deficit by $143 billion over the 10-year period, even if overall health care spending rises.
The report's most sober assessments concerned Medicare.
In addition to flagging the cuts to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers as potentially unsustainable, it projected that reductions in payments to private Medicare Advantage plans would trigger an exodus from the popular program. Enrollment would plummet by about 50 percent, as the plans reduce extra benefits that they currently offer. Seniors leaving the private plans would still have health insurance under traditional Medicare, but many might face higher out-of-pocket costs.
In another flashing yellow light, the report warned that a new voluntary long-term care insurance program created under the law faces "a very serious risk" of insolvency.
Monday, April 19, 2010
"There was once a dream that was Rome."
So on this day of the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord we need to talk about revolution. When the citizens are fed up with those in the political ruling class due to taxes, massacres, forced purchasing of government programs or general liberty infringements. They revolt plain and simple. let me tell you something else I am sick and freaking tired of hearing from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh how we need to be nonviolent and have civil debates about the issues. You are the talkers and we will be the doers, it is okay the American Revolution had Sam Adams we have you guys. Talk time has passed. This regime cares not one iota about me or you, they are only looking out for those who want to suck from the government's teet. When the call to arms came on that fateful night men came from all around and stood against the most powerful army in the world and on this day in 1775 they kept coming and chased this army all the way back to Boston. Some paid with their lives, 49 patriots died that day. Was it worth it? Were their lives worth what we have become today would any of those men look at this Congress or any citizen for that matter and not have as much contempt for him/her as they did for King George in their day. We just accept what the government shoves down our throats, oh sure, we bitch in editorials and blogs, we go to TEA parties and and chant and sing patriotic songs. Yet, we are still getting this fucking anti-American crap shoved in our faces and down our throats. How much more shit is it going to take to make America wake up and see how much liberty we are really losing in the name of equality? "All men are created equal," after that you must better yourself but in America today it is okay to be on food stamps and welfare, to have as many abortions on demand as you want, or have your wages confiscated and given to those who do not work. I would give the last breath in my body to have those 49 men here with us today to show us real bravery that will be needed to save the America they died for.
From the movie Gladiator: Marcus Aurelius: Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.
Will America (Rome) survive the summer on this path set forth by the ones in charge? I am sorry to those who fought and died this day so long ago. My apologies for not being vigilant enough and letting these leftist assholes get close enough to try and destroy what you fought to bring life. Some of us remember and hold sacred those days and those ideas and some of us, like you, are willing to fight for them.
From the movie Gladiator: Marcus Aurelius: Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.
Will America (Rome) survive the summer on this path set forth by the ones in charge? I am sorry to those who fought and died this day so long ago. My apologies for not being vigilant enough and letting these leftist assholes get close enough to try and destroy what you fought to bring life. Some of us remember and hold sacred those days and those ideas and some of us, like you, are willing to fight for them.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Big Brother Becomes Big Bully
I know I need to catch up on my reading but this is what I have been trying to get across to you readers for quite some time now. Read it, live it , love it pass it on. American Thinker is one of the best conservative site on the web.
March 29, 2010
Big Brother Becomes Big Bully
By Ed Lasky
The government in the Age of Obama has gone beyond the big brother that watches out and cares for us. Instead, it has becomes the big brother that torments and bullies us and then takes what is rightfully ours: our savings, our freedom, and our futures.
Liberals are often labeled as wanting to bring out the nanny state (the feminine version of a big brother). This is wrong. A nanny cares for her wards so that they can mature into responsible adults able to take care of themselves.
But a bully has other desires. A bully cares only about himself and his own greedy will to power. A bully taunts and threatens. A bully holds others in contempt. A bully disregards not only the wishes of those around him, but also the rules that may his restrain his power. A bully takes what is not his.
A bully will not stop until people rise up and put an end to him.
Has our government become a big bully? Let us count the ways.
Very early in 2009, the troika of Pelosi-Reid-Obama sought to expand the power of the federal government over states, businesses, and us. They all but nationalized the American auto industry (save Ford), overriding debtor rights and decades of law. They have also taken over chunks of the financial industry and, via their control over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, much of the housing industry. Many salaries will be set by the White House. Education, a local matter, is increasingly becoming a federal one. The student loan industry has also been brought in-house -- the White House, that is. That was merely a warm-up.
The smash-and-grab style of governing has since run rampant: rules, regulations, taxes, and mandates; the proliferation of unelected czars; the orders and commands; the abuse of power; the diktats-all stuffed down our throats.
Does it feel like we are all being waterboarded?
The Department of Justice has hired a legion of lawyers for its Civil Rights Division. They will be busy investigating businesses across America for violations of civil rights laws. Fine -- but they will be using what is called a "disparate impact" standard. Under that criterion, any business that has job standards -- even legitimate ones -- that happen to result in fewer minorities being hired than the DOJ sees fit will be hit with the full might of the Justice Department, which has been staffed with a coven of radical lawyers. Not to be outdone, the Education Department will also be sending out investigators to ensure that schools do not discriminate, either. Discrimination is often in the eye of the beholder, and under Eric Holder, I can guarantee you that those eyes will see racism across the breadth of America (because, after all, we are a nation of racists). Businesses, local government, schools -- all will be bullied in the years ahead.
But wait...there's more.
The Environmental Protection Agency has gone mental -- off the deep end.
Eager to expand its power to bully businesses, the EPA is busy trying to regulate every carbon molecule out of existence (except those burned by Al Gore, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and their friends and allies, what with those massive homes, private flights, and hothouse White House), even if it means circumventing Congress to do so. The climate con is being used to seize sweeping power over much of the economy.
Cap-and-tax is coming, as are shortages and price increases -- even though climate change (fictitious or not) is dead last in a list of public priorities in a recent Pews survey.
The Interior Department has all but killed drilling offshore and in vast parts of onshore America, despite Americans' overwhelming desire to tap our nation's bounty of our concerns and of us. Adding insult to injury, the feds now may seek to seize vast swaths of land via "presidential proclamation."
The old smash-and-grab.
The bullies running our country don't care. They care only about themselves.
One could go on and on.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is on a hiring binge to make sure the height of the steps in your business is centimeter-correct.
The Federal Communication Commission has become a playpen for those who want the airwaves filled with even more liberal claptrap than we have now. Obama and company have declared war -- not on Osama bin Laden or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but on Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch. And remember when they wanted our friends and neighbors to report "fishy" stories about Obama's agenda?
Bullies want only their own voices heard.
The Labor Department has been outsourced to allies of the Service Employees International Union -- and these people know how to bully.
Obama will use his executive power to coerce businesses that receive government contracts to pay its workers what he in his imperial wisdom decides satisfies him and his union pals and promoters. He enjoys issuing executive orders -- skirting the legislative branch and quaint notions such as the separation of powers. He has also used signing statements to "sidestep" new laws passed by (a Democratic) Congress. Why should Congress and the little people tie him down? He will also reportedly circumvent the Senate confirmation process by naming Craig Becker (a leftist union ally) to the National Labor Relations Board via a recess appointment.
A bully fights in underhanded ways.
How will they know when is "enough"? There is no such word in their vocabulary. These are people who have never had to meet a payroll, in the words of Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln, and are strikingly lacking in real-world business experience.
But who cares? It's not their money, but ours. Bullies take and give to satisfy their whims and not our needs. They want to pay off their allies, not our debts. (Can we console ourselves that it will all be funny money issued by a Banana Republic by the time they get done with us?)
Pelosi-to-Reid-to-Obama then moved into the major leagues: paving the way to the nationalization of health care.
Why?
Americans don't want ObamaCare, and the more they know, the more they rebel against it. The bullies that rule over us do not care. When they want our opinion, they will give it to us.
So why did Obama make health care reform the focus of the past year in the face of a struggling economy and poor job numbers (not helped by the hyped-up so-called stimulus)? A crisis was just too good to waste (ask Rahm Emanuel), as was the filibuster-proof Democratic majority in Congress. Therefore, the massive redistribution of wealth that was a goal of Barack Obama all along (the "spread the wealth" gaffe that was one of the few truthful sentences Barack Obama uttered in 2008) has been done behind the façade of health care. What a charade.
We have been subjected to a year-long spectacle that can best be described as a Congressional Grand Guignol -- a grotesque theatre of the absurd where arm-twisting, bribes, payoffs, job offers, reconciliation trickery, loopholes, and thuggery are substituted for genuine bipartisanship or even much discussion among Democrats themselves regarding the monstrosity of the so-called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (euphemism alert). Voters don't want ObamaCare, and they don't want it done through strong-arm tactics that mock our democratic principles.
The three-headed hydra (Pelosi, Reid, Obama) just bullied it through, overcoming opposition among not just Republicans and some Democrats, but also most Americans. They engaged in financial gimmickry that makes Bernie Madoff look like a piker .
They misused parliamentary procedures and customs, broke promises and rules.
So what? Nannies obey rules; bullies don't.
Or as Congressman Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee summed it up, "There are no rules here; we make ‘em up as we go along." (And he knows how to break rules; he was impeached as a federal judge for breaking them himself -- hence his spot on the House Rules Committee. Make sense?)
Now we (but not congressmen or their staffers) are forced to buy health insurance. But that is just a relatively small loss of our freedom because the goal, according to Congressman Dingell, is for Obamacare to eventually "control the people."
The Constitution is just so much fish wrap to these Democratic leaders. Smash and grab.
Barack Obama himself admitted that he saw it as an obstacle -- some Constitutional Law professor (lecturer, part-time) he must have been. No wonder he fled from conversations with other law professors.
So we have what may very well be an unconstitutional abuse of power in the form of the health care act. The mandates will be piled on us, as will the micromanagement of health care. There are at least twenty ways in which ObamaCare will take away our freedom, writes David Hogberg in Investor's Business Daily.
Will there be much freedom for us left after this takeover? Not freedom to earn, save, invest, and spend as we see fit.
We have already seen local governments grasping for our money. Police are swarming the streets to raise cash via an epidemic of ticketing, traffic cams are proliferating, tax refunds are being held, and states are mining IRS data as never before to extract money from citizens. Big brother/big bully wants to take or tax candy and soda pop from us, too.
But these are picayune. Wait 'til the IRS gets into the game.
The Internal Revenue Service is yet another growth area of government. Even before the health care bill was on its way to passage and signing, the IRS was busy hiring more people. Now at least 17,000 more people will be hired not to watch out for you, but to watch you (at the additional cost of one billion dollars per year and with reams of personal information about you at their fingertips).
Scores of new federal mandates and fifteen different tax increases totaling $400 billion are imposed under the Democratic House bill. In addition to more complicated tax returns, families and small businesses will be forced to reveal further tax information to the IRS, provide proof of ‘government approved' health care and submit detailed sales information to comply with new excise taxes.
Thank you, Mr. President, Madame Speaker, and Mr. Majority Leader!
Recall that Barack Obama joked about unleashing the IRS on people before. He wasn't joking.
A bully does not care about your money, except insofar as he schemes to make it his money.
Smash and grab.
We should have known how he would govern by how he campaigned. His focus group slogan may have been "Yes we can!" but that was for the yahoos. When he was off script, he revealed his true style in taunting that if his opponents "bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." He echoed these comments when he was president and confronted a Democrat who resisted the health care takeover with the warning, "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." In one generation, the Democrats have gone from "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country" to "Think about what I can do to you." Bully for him!
We should get used to these types of thrashings since, in the wake of the health care coup d'etat, Speaker Pelosi has promised that the passage (or as Pelosi put it, "the kick through the door") of the health "reform" act will empower the Democrats to push through more such "reform." Wonderful!
But in the end, bullies become hated figures.
We have reached that point.
Congress is held in very low esteem, and generic Democrats poll badly. A recent poll found that Pelosi has an 11% favorability rating, which beats the pants off of Harry Reid's 8% (and of the two, she wears the pants -- or designer pantsuits). Barack Obama himself is listing as well; his job disapproval rating tops his approval rating. His ratings have gone down and down and down. We just don't believe much of what he says anymore, and we now recognize him for what he is: a bully who rules but does not govern.
Have we had enough of the bullying from big brother, and are we prepared to defend ourselves from "the mugging of personal freedom"?
Will Howard Beale's cry -- "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" -- become this year's "Yes We can!"?
We may be there.
A CNN poll found that 56 percent of Americans believe that the government has become so powerful that it constitutes an immediate threat to the freedom and rights of citizens.
But it gets worse for the Democrats. A Rasmussen poll reveals that "only 21 percent of the people believe the US government is governing with our consent." Have any of our Democratic politicians ever read the Declaration of Independence? Such thoughts and righteous rage give rise to revolutions.
These are the leading indicators that the Democrats are in for a bad fall season.
How can the little people show the tyrants the door? How do people get rid of bullies who stomp all over us? We come together as we always have.
Hence, the Tea Party movement has emerged at this time and place in our nation's history and why the "Don't Tread On Me" flags are now flapping in the wind.
People are willing to fight to protect the freedoms and futures for themselves and generations to come.
Come November 2010 and 2012, they will be heard, loud and clear.
Ed Lasky is news editor of American Thinker.
March 29, 2010
Big Brother Becomes Big Bully
By Ed Lasky
The government in the Age of Obama has gone beyond the big brother that watches out and cares for us. Instead, it has becomes the big brother that torments and bullies us and then takes what is rightfully ours: our savings, our freedom, and our futures.
Liberals are often labeled as wanting to bring out the nanny state (the feminine version of a big brother). This is wrong. A nanny cares for her wards so that they can mature into responsible adults able to take care of themselves.
But a bully has other desires. A bully cares only about himself and his own greedy will to power. A bully taunts and threatens. A bully holds others in contempt. A bully disregards not only the wishes of those around him, but also the rules that may his restrain his power. A bully takes what is not his.
A bully will not stop until people rise up and put an end to him.
Has our government become a big bully? Let us count the ways.
Very early in 2009, the troika of Pelosi-Reid-Obama sought to expand the power of the federal government over states, businesses, and us. They all but nationalized the American auto industry (save Ford), overriding debtor rights and decades of law. They have also taken over chunks of the financial industry and, via their control over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, much of the housing industry. Many salaries will be set by the White House. Education, a local matter, is increasingly becoming a federal one. The student loan industry has also been brought in-house -- the White House, that is. That was merely a warm-up.
The smash-and-grab style of governing has since run rampant: rules, regulations, taxes, and mandates; the proliferation of unelected czars; the orders and commands; the abuse of power; the diktats-all stuffed down our throats.
Does it feel like we are all being waterboarded?
The Department of Justice has hired a legion of lawyers for its Civil Rights Division. They will be busy investigating businesses across America for violations of civil rights laws. Fine -- but they will be using what is called a "disparate impact" standard. Under that criterion, any business that has job standards -- even legitimate ones -- that happen to result in fewer minorities being hired than the DOJ sees fit will be hit with the full might of the Justice Department, which has been staffed with a coven of radical lawyers. Not to be outdone, the Education Department will also be sending out investigators to ensure that schools do not discriminate, either. Discrimination is often in the eye of the beholder, and under Eric Holder, I can guarantee you that those eyes will see racism across the breadth of America (because, after all, we are a nation of racists). Businesses, local government, schools -- all will be bullied in the years ahead.
But wait...there's more.
The Environmental Protection Agency has gone mental -- off the deep end.
Eager to expand its power to bully businesses, the EPA is busy trying to regulate every carbon molecule out of existence (except those burned by Al Gore, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and their friends and allies, what with those massive homes, private flights, and hothouse White House), even if it means circumventing Congress to do so. The climate con is being used to seize sweeping power over much of the economy.
Cap-and-tax is coming, as are shortages and price increases -- even though climate change (fictitious or not) is dead last in a list of public priorities in a recent Pews survey.
The Interior Department has all but killed drilling offshore and in vast parts of onshore America, despite Americans' overwhelming desire to tap our nation's bounty of our concerns and of us. Adding insult to injury, the feds now may seek to seize vast swaths of land via "presidential proclamation."
The old smash-and-grab.
The bullies running our country don't care. They care only about themselves.
One could go on and on.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is on a hiring binge to make sure the height of the steps in your business is centimeter-correct.
The Federal Communication Commission has become a playpen for those who want the airwaves filled with even more liberal claptrap than we have now. Obama and company have declared war -- not on Osama bin Laden or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but on Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch. And remember when they wanted our friends and neighbors to report "fishy" stories about Obama's agenda?
Bullies want only their own voices heard.
The Labor Department has been outsourced to allies of the Service Employees International Union -- and these people know how to bully.
Obama will use his executive power to coerce businesses that receive government contracts to pay its workers what he in his imperial wisdom decides satisfies him and his union pals and promoters. He enjoys issuing executive orders -- skirting the legislative branch and quaint notions such as the separation of powers. He has also used signing statements to "sidestep" new laws passed by (a Democratic) Congress. Why should Congress and the little people tie him down? He will also reportedly circumvent the Senate confirmation process by naming Craig Becker (a leftist union ally) to the National Labor Relations Board via a recess appointment.
A bully fights in underhanded ways.
How will they know when is "enough"? There is no such word in their vocabulary. These are people who have never had to meet a payroll, in the words of Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln, and are strikingly lacking in real-world business experience.
But who cares? It's not their money, but ours. Bullies take and give to satisfy their whims and not our needs. They want to pay off their allies, not our debts. (Can we console ourselves that it will all be funny money issued by a Banana Republic by the time they get done with us?)
Pelosi-to-Reid-to-Obama then moved into the major leagues: paving the way to the nationalization of health care.
Why?
Americans don't want ObamaCare, and the more they know, the more they rebel against it. The bullies that rule over us do not care. When they want our opinion, they will give it to us.
So why did Obama make health care reform the focus of the past year in the face of a struggling economy and poor job numbers (not helped by the hyped-up so-called stimulus)? A crisis was just too good to waste (ask Rahm Emanuel), as was the filibuster-proof Democratic majority in Congress. Therefore, the massive redistribution of wealth that was a goal of Barack Obama all along (the "spread the wealth" gaffe that was one of the few truthful sentences Barack Obama uttered in 2008) has been done behind the façade of health care. What a charade.
We have been subjected to a year-long spectacle that can best be described as a Congressional Grand Guignol -- a grotesque theatre of the absurd where arm-twisting, bribes, payoffs, job offers, reconciliation trickery, loopholes, and thuggery are substituted for genuine bipartisanship or even much discussion among Democrats themselves regarding the monstrosity of the so-called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (euphemism alert). Voters don't want ObamaCare, and they don't want it done through strong-arm tactics that mock our democratic principles.
The three-headed hydra (Pelosi, Reid, Obama) just bullied it through, overcoming opposition among not just Republicans and some Democrats, but also most Americans. They engaged in financial gimmickry that makes Bernie Madoff look like a piker .
They misused parliamentary procedures and customs, broke promises and rules.
So what? Nannies obey rules; bullies don't.
Or as Congressman Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee summed it up, "There are no rules here; we make ‘em up as we go along." (And he knows how to break rules; he was impeached as a federal judge for breaking them himself -- hence his spot on the House Rules Committee. Make sense?)
Now we (but not congressmen or their staffers) are forced to buy health insurance. But that is just a relatively small loss of our freedom because the goal, according to Congressman Dingell, is for Obamacare to eventually "control the people."
The Constitution is just so much fish wrap to these Democratic leaders. Smash and grab.
Barack Obama himself admitted that he saw it as an obstacle -- some Constitutional Law professor (lecturer, part-time) he must have been. No wonder he fled from conversations with other law professors.
So we have what may very well be an unconstitutional abuse of power in the form of the health care act. The mandates will be piled on us, as will the micromanagement of health care. There are at least twenty ways in which ObamaCare will take away our freedom, writes David Hogberg in Investor's Business Daily.
Will there be much freedom for us left after this takeover? Not freedom to earn, save, invest, and spend as we see fit.
We have already seen local governments grasping for our money. Police are swarming the streets to raise cash via an epidemic of ticketing, traffic cams are proliferating, tax refunds are being held, and states are mining IRS data as never before to extract money from citizens. Big brother/big bully wants to take or tax candy and soda pop from us, too.
But these are picayune. Wait 'til the IRS gets into the game.
The Internal Revenue Service is yet another growth area of government. Even before the health care bill was on its way to passage and signing, the IRS was busy hiring more people. Now at least 17,000 more people will be hired not to watch out for you, but to watch you (at the additional cost of one billion dollars per year and with reams of personal information about you at their fingertips).
Scores of new federal mandates and fifteen different tax increases totaling $400 billion are imposed under the Democratic House bill. In addition to more complicated tax returns, families and small businesses will be forced to reveal further tax information to the IRS, provide proof of ‘government approved' health care and submit detailed sales information to comply with new excise taxes.
Thank you, Mr. President, Madame Speaker, and Mr. Majority Leader!
Recall that Barack Obama joked about unleashing the IRS on people before. He wasn't joking.
A bully does not care about your money, except insofar as he schemes to make it his money.
Smash and grab.
We should have known how he would govern by how he campaigned. His focus group slogan may have been "Yes we can!" but that was for the yahoos. When he was off script, he revealed his true style in taunting that if his opponents "bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." He echoed these comments when he was president and confronted a Democrat who resisted the health care takeover with the warning, "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." In one generation, the Democrats have gone from "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country" to "Think about what I can do to you." Bully for him!
We should get used to these types of thrashings since, in the wake of the health care coup d'etat, Speaker Pelosi has promised that the passage (or as Pelosi put it, "the kick through the door") of the health "reform" act will empower the Democrats to push through more such "reform." Wonderful!
But in the end, bullies become hated figures.
We have reached that point.
Congress is held in very low esteem, and generic Democrats poll badly. A recent poll found that Pelosi has an 11% favorability rating, which beats the pants off of Harry Reid's 8% (and of the two, she wears the pants -- or designer pantsuits). Barack Obama himself is listing as well; his job disapproval rating tops his approval rating. His ratings have gone down and down and down. We just don't believe much of what he says anymore, and we now recognize him for what he is: a bully who rules but does not govern.
Have we had enough of the bullying from big brother, and are we prepared to defend ourselves from "the mugging of personal freedom"?
Will Howard Beale's cry -- "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" -- become this year's "Yes We can!"?
We may be there.
A CNN poll found that 56 percent of Americans believe that the government has become so powerful that it constitutes an immediate threat to the freedom and rights of citizens.
But it gets worse for the Democrats. A Rasmussen poll reveals that "only 21 percent of the people believe the US government is governing with our consent." Have any of our Democratic politicians ever read the Declaration of Independence? Such thoughts and righteous rage give rise to revolutions.
These are the leading indicators that the Democrats are in for a bad fall season.
How can the little people show the tyrants the door? How do people get rid of bullies who stomp all over us? We come together as we always have.
Hence, the Tea Party movement has emerged at this time and place in our nation's history and why the "Don't Tread On Me" flags are now flapping in the wind.
People are willing to fight to protect the freedoms and futures for themselves and generations to come.
Come November 2010 and 2012, they will be heard, loud and clear.
Ed Lasky is news editor of American Thinker.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Post Racial America?
With his election we were supposed to be past all this racial garbage that divides us as a nation. But of course the left cannot ever let go of one of their sacred golden cows. Race, of course, we have not heard too much about it because of the health care "debate." Now it's BAAACK! Two items in the news today.
Let's start with this nugget from the left. Any black TEA party member is a traitor. No, not a traitor to the United States but a traitor to your half black half white president. So let me get this straight now black people should be called traitors because the acting president is going to tax these citizens to the point of financial dependence on the government and they are not allowed to disagree on the basis of skin color. Wow the left in this country really does want to be just like Europe. You know just like Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin they did not allow anyone to disagree with them either. Blacks attacking blacks because of their opposition to fuckface's policies. Have you ever anything so freakin stupid in your life? I hope black TEA party members take this and use it as a badge of honor. The left is getting crazier and crazier and of course are using their willing accomplices in the media. People it's the same old shit with these people on the left race, hatred and a "Do as I command" attitude. I got a new slogan for you America "Punch a Leftist." It does not matter what color the president is, assholes, it only matters what he is doing to the country and this douche is trying to bring America on an equal playing field as say... Kenya.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April Confederate History Month, well praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. You knew this was going to rile up the left because if you are a racist jackass you know the only reason the South fought was to preserve slavery. Especially in Virginia, they were not invaded once after seceding from the union, I cannot even recall one battle fought on the "Old Dominion's" soil. Of course all the left can see is slavery, a despicable and vile practice no doubt about it but where do we most see it employed today? Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, no, mostly we see it in the great continent of Africa, the mother of civilization. Luckily most of our ancestors were smart enough to get the fuck off that now arm pit of civilization. Is slavery part of Virginia's past, yes, should it have been mentioned, yes. The left is going to have to understand that in the defeat of the South we are all suffering the loss of freedoms and rights. At least those people had a fighting chance, I fear we will never get ours. Race is a wonderful thing it is the only way, physically, in which we are different of course morons who only look at skin color do not care about principles or serious political thought. It is a huge deal to those on the left, no wonder there cannot be any civil discourse when it comes to politics here in America. I guess he is not as post racial as he thinks, hey Obama thanks for being a positive influence for everyone.
Let's start with this nugget from the left. Any black TEA party member is a traitor. No, not a traitor to the United States but a traitor to your half black half white president. So let me get this straight now black people should be called traitors because the acting president is going to tax these citizens to the point of financial dependence on the government and they are not allowed to disagree on the basis of skin color. Wow the left in this country really does want to be just like Europe. You know just like Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin they did not allow anyone to disagree with them either. Blacks attacking blacks because of their opposition to fuckface's policies. Have you ever anything so freakin stupid in your life? I hope black TEA party members take this and use it as a badge of honor. The left is getting crazier and crazier and of course are using their willing accomplices in the media. People it's the same old shit with these people on the left race, hatred and a "Do as I command" attitude. I got a new slogan for you America "Punch a Leftist." It does not matter what color the president is, assholes, it only matters what he is doing to the country and this douche is trying to bring America on an equal playing field as say... Kenya.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April Confederate History Month, well praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. You knew this was going to rile up the left because if you are a racist jackass you know the only reason the South fought was to preserve slavery. Especially in Virginia, they were not invaded once after seceding from the union, I cannot even recall one battle fought on the "Old Dominion's" soil. Of course all the left can see is slavery, a despicable and vile practice no doubt about it but where do we most see it employed today? Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, no, mostly we see it in the great continent of Africa, the mother of civilization. Luckily most of our ancestors were smart enough to get the fuck off that now arm pit of civilization. Is slavery part of Virginia's past, yes, should it have been mentioned, yes. The left is going to have to understand that in the defeat of the South we are all suffering the loss of freedoms and rights. At least those people had a fighting chance, I fear we will never get ours. Race is a wonderful thing it is the only way, physically, in which we are different of course morons who only look at skin color do not care about principles or serious political thought. It is a huge deal to those on the left, no wonder there cannot be any civil discourse when it comes to politics here in America. I guess he is not as post racial as he thinks, hey Obama thanks for being a positive influence for everyone.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
STARTing To Destroy America's Power
So are you convinced yet that this "leader" and his minions absolutely, 100% want to kill everything this country stands for. Giving away our nuclear strategy is without a doubt the dumbest thing any president has ever done. Hey fuckface so you are not going to nuke non-nuke countries; nice idea but what is stopping Chavez or Kim Jong Il from giving a non-nuke country a dirty bomb or an ICBM with a chemical warhead. You are nothing but a naive, novice who has no idea what the world thinks of the U.S. and our freedoms. You are giving away the strength of this nation and there are enough of us that will not let that happen. I do not agree with the conservative pundits who say we will have peaceful revolution come November. I am for a long, hot, bloody summer for progressives, liberals and democrats.
Obama to Limit Potential Uses of Nuclear Weapons
FOXNews.com
Obama, in an interview Monday with the New York Times, said he would make an exception for "outliers like Iran and North Korea" in revamping the United States' nuclear strategy
President Obama, fresh off the announcement of agreement with Russia to reduce nuclear arms stockpiles, plans to unveil a nuclear weapons strategy Tuesday that will limit the United States' potential uses of such weapons -- even in self defense.
Obama, in an interview Monday with the New York Times, said he would make an exception for "outliers like Iran and North Korea" in revamping the United States' nuclear strategy.
With the new approach, Obama sees the United States leading by example in efforts to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons and eventually make them obsolete, the president told the Times, signaling a clear break with his predecessors on the issue.
Instead, threats could be dealt with by "a series of graded options," he said, combining old and new conventional weapons.
"I'm going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the people are safe and secure," Obama told the Times.
The Obama administration plans to urge Russia to return to the bargaining table following Senate ratification of the new START arms reduction treaty, to be signed by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague on Thursday.
The White House hopes to overcome Russia's expressed reluctance to move beyond START, especially if it means cutting Moscow's arsenal of tactical, or short-range nuclear arms.
These so-called theater nuclear weapons play a key role in Russia's overall defense strategy and are regarded in Moscow as an important bargaining chip on security issues.
The timing of a planned U.S. push for new, broader arms talks with Russia is uncertain. But officials said the proposal would only come after U.S. and Russian legislative approval of the new START pact, which isn't expected until the end of this year.
The Russian parliament is almost certain to sign off on any deal negotiated by the Kremlin, but the U.S. Senate's ratification of the new START treaty is far from a sure thing.
Obama is hosting dozens of world leaders in a nuclear security summit in Washington next week.
One senior administration official told the Associated Press that the U.S. wants another round of talks between the White House and the Kremlin that would include so-called "non-deployed" nuclear weapons -- the thousands of warheads on both sides that are held in reserve and not ready for immediate use.
Obama to Limit Potential Uses of Nuclear Weapons
FOXNews.com
Obama, in an interview Monday with the New York Times, said he would make an exception for "outliers like Iran and North Korea" in revamping the United States' nuclear strategy
President Obama, fresh off the announcement of agreement with Russia to reduce nuclear arms stockpiles, plans to unveil a nuclear weapons strategy Tuesday that will limit the United States' potential uses of such weapons -- even in self defense.
Obama, in an interview Monday with the New York Times, said he would make an exception for "outliers like Iran and North Korea" in revamping the United States' nuclear strategy.
With the new approach, Obama sees the United States leading by example in efforts to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons and eventually make them obsolete, the president told the Times, signaling a clear break with his predecessors on the issue.
Instead, threats could be dealt with by "a series of graded options," he said, combining old and new conventional weapons.
"I'm going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the people are safe and secure," Obama told the Times.
The Obama administration plans to urge Russia to return to the bargaining table following Senate ratification of the new START arms reduction treaty, to be signed by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague on Thursday.
The White House hopes to overcome Russia's expressed reluctance to move beyond START, especially if it means cutting Moscow's arsenal of tactical, or short-range nuclear arms.
These so-called theater nuclear weapons play a key role in Russia's overall defense strategy and are regarded in Moscow as an important bargaining chip on security issues.
The timing of a planned U.S. push for new, broader arms talks with Russia is uncertain. But officials said the proposal would only come after U.S. and Russian legislative approval of the new START pact, which isn't expected until the end of this year.
The Russian parliament is almost certain to sign off on any deal negotiated by the Kremlin, but the U.S. Senate's ratification of the new START treaty is far from a sure thing.
Obama is hosting dozens of world leaders in a nuclear security summit in Washington next week.
One senior administration official told the Associated Press that the U.S. wants another round of talks between the White House and the Kremlin that would include so-called "non-deployed" nuclear weapons -- the thousands of warheads on both sides that are held in reserve and not ready for immediate use.
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