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Economic forecasters say future generations of Americans could have a substantially lower standard of living than their predecessors’ for the first time in the country’s history if the debt is not brought under control.

Week In Review, Winter Olympic Edition

We learned some things this week:

Obama is an agnostic, when it comes to taking your money.

Pelosi assumed the drinks were on you.  And the appalling tax-paid luxury.

We also learned that elitists use multi-million dollar telepromters, and scoff at writing notes on your hands.

And about Senator Tom Harkin’s assault on democracy, and what he stands to gain from it.

And, just for extra, there’s also this: Britain’s VAT tax, which currently stands at 17 percent, is not enough: so they’re bumping it up to 20 percent.

Some random thoughts:

The Winter Olympic’s opening ceremony had its moments.  The 2D/3D whales really impressed members of my house.  The quasi-Scottish tap dancers: not so much.

NBA All Star Week-end is competing with its own big freeze in the DFW Metroplex.  Dallas is in a bit of its own Winter Olympics: with people competing to get out of their houses, find groceries, and avoid frost

Tags: government spending, review, sports

Senator Tom Harkin (Dem) is smarter than you:

Sen. Harkin has an editorial in the Huffington Post, where he speaks about filibusters, and how they need to change. 

Here’s a clip:  

“Currently, it takes 60 votes in the Senate to “invoke cloture” — in other words, to end debate on a legislative measure and bring it to a vote. My legislation would permit a decreasing number of Senators to invoke cloture on a given measure. On the first cloture attempt, 60 votes would be required. But, over a period of days or weeks, the number of votes required would fall to a simple majority of 51 Senators.”

The article starts off with the words “republican abuse” about 241 times, as if Senator Harkin is attempting to set up a filibuster of his own, drawing out his opinion with longer, wordier opinions. 

In the article, not one Democratic filibuster is mentioned: apparently Dems poop roses. 

Listen, Harkin: just because you’re not getting your way does not mean it’s time to change the document this country has been based on. 

Being able to change the system to get your way is not the democratic process–it’s bush league.  The rules of the Senate, involving filibustering, has been around for a long time–and just because you’ve not gotten your way doesn’t mean you get to take your ball and go home.

If Sen. Harkin had his way, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington would be re-titled into: Mr. Smith Stays Home and Sticks It in his Ear. 

Sen. Harkin has also said some other concerning things of late, including his insistence that the stimulus bill is working:

“More than one-third of the bill, $288 billion, went to tax cuts mostly benefiting the middle class. Another third of the bill, $275 billion, went directly to the states. Facing huge budget shortfalls, state and local government were preparing to lay off hundreds of thousands of public employees. So if your child’s teacher was not laid off last year, odds are you can thank the recovery act.“

So, he wants to change democracy to curtail to his needs.  Also, he is using the same argument as the administration is regarding the stimulus experiment: Some random person who has kept a job = a job saved. 

Harkin sees things that you and I can’t see.  He knows the strings, sees the code of the Matrix apparently.  He knows when unnamed people have been saved from losing their job without ever seeing any data or feedback from this person.  He’s like a Jedi. 

In fact, Jedi Harkin sounds like a good running name for the upcoming election.  “These are not the droids you were looking for.  The stimulus has saved your job, move along.” 

And here’s a free one for you: Can someone explain to me how stimulus money went to tax cuts?  Why was it necessary to allocate money so that you could not take people’s money?  He’s not giving us a tax break–he’s setting up shop as a loan shark.

5 New Things You Can Now Blame on Man Made Global Warming:

 –Bearded Iguanas.  (Just for the beards)

 –Forgetting to get a Valentine’s Day Present

–Spontaneous Combustion of the Elbow.

 –Gremlins

 –Bob Barker’s Prolific Career

The Dream Police:

Sometimes it comes to you at night: a vision of something you want to do; some mountain you want to climb either literally or metaphorically.

(I once had a dream my corndog turned into an alligator and tried to eat me. I’m not talking about these types of dreams.)

I’m talking about dreams that can happen even when you’re wide awake, made out of that beautiful substance called inspiration.

You may want to start a new business, open up a new market, or create something people need.

There are people out there, people in power, who want to police those dreams. We’ll call them the dream police, due to a lack of cleverness. They have plans, and most of those plans entail them staying in power, and they need more of your income, more of your time to help them achieve their goals–again, which mostly entail them staying in power.

The Dream Police don’t care about the burden their putting on your bank account. The Dream Police don’t care about your goals or hopes. They simply want more.

The government, the Dream Police’s employer, will always need more money. The more money you pump into it, the more it needs to eat. Like a habit, Big Gov is always feening for the greater high.

The Dream Police plan on taking more out of your paycheck, out of your retirement, out of your earned life. They’re shutting those dreams down, and the dreams of your children.

The Dream Police don’t believe in dreams: they assume all economic and social statuses are permanent. They’ll take away freedom incrementally under the guise of the greater good, and they’ll do it with a smile and a large paycheck.

It’s time to shut them down. Vote for fiscal conservatives and let’s allow our children–of every creed, color and race–to keep dreaming.

Your Taxes Paid For This:Pelosi

It’s Friday morning.  Thinking about what you’re going to spend for Valentine’s Day?  Let’s also think about what you’ve spent for House Speaker Pelosi:

From the Washington Times Editorial, click on text below to go to page:

The charges include $101,000 in “in-flight services” that reportedly included Maker’s Mark, Jack Daniels and Jim Beam whiskeys, Beefeater and Bombay Sapphire gin, Courvoisier cognac and other fancy food and liquor.

There’s no words to describe how frustrating this is.  Congress votes themselves a raise in 2008, don’t forget.  When you hear a progressive Regressive talk about emotional pleas for the “have-nots”, don’t forget that this is what they’re after: more Beefeater a mile high.

I didn’t know the drinks are on us.

Hits from around the web:

American Thinker has some good print on the Agnostic: “It’s getting crowded under the bus.”

C. Edmund Right’s letter to the president: “And when you say that small business is clamoring for you to pass health care, I know that you have taken total leave of your senses.”

Myers at Big Journalism tells us not to throw out all our baby bottles and sippy cups:” Create a monster to be blamed so as to control the populace.”

Tags: government spending, waste

Comparison of Cost: From Zombie Blog:

From Pajamas Media

Taxation Theology:

There’s a huge deficit and Big Gov is spending big money.  The question is bound to come up, how do we pay for this? 

Democrats are attempting to put together a bipartisan dog show in order to soften the blow for when the middle class tax increases begin to trickle down. 

 President Obama has gone as far as to say he is Agnostic to middle class tax increases.  I wish President Obama would meet the President Obama of last year; the one who said “not a dime” would be raised on the middle class.  And if he’s agnostic about this promise then he needs to find the Lord real fast. 

Part of me, the scheming part, thinks that the administration will wait till after 2012 to bring the big hit.  Because to do so now would be political suicide: could you imagine across the board increases when people are suffering like they are now? 

 They’ve already started with others, but with the tax increases of those making more than 200,000 dollars (including small businesses) Dems are beginning to see that this is only a drop in the bucket.  They need more. 

 Agnostic definition: not a believer but not an atheist.  You may have heard of this described as the ‘clock-maker’ perspective of God, where God created the world but now has nothing to do with it.  The ironic thing is that an Agnostic government would be the perfect fit.  A government set up on basic principles, but not one that wants to delve into the everyday life of its citizens.

New Things You Can Now Blame on Man Made Global Warming:

–Facebook status update rejection

–Inability to pronounce the word indubitably 

–Addiction to McGriddle sandwiches

–Popcorn kernels permanently lodged in your teeth.

–Hallucinations of Billy D Williams in character as Lando Calrissian eating Grape Nuts at your breakfast table.  “Blame me on Global Warming,” he says as only he can say.

I’m Writing on My Hand Right Now

I’m writing on my hand right now:

This has nothing to do with tax relief, but something to do with common sense.  Robert Gibbs, at a White House Press Conference, not a comedy festival, was recently seen mocking Sarah Palin by making some fake notes on the palm of his hand.  Palin, in case you missed it, spoke at a Tea Party convention and was seen with notes on her hand.  How non-elitist of her. 

I’m writing on my hand right now, in honor of Mr. Gibbs:

PANIC

SOCIALISM

CREATE JOBS BY SAYING YOU CREATE JOBS

RAISE TAXES AFTER 2012 ELECTION LIKE GANGBUSTERS

SPEND IT LIKE IT’S BREWSTER”S MILLIONS

ROBERT GIBBS DOESN”T CARE ABOUT REAL PEOPLE

Mr, Gibbs mocks, when his boss recently used two state of the art teleprompters to speak to an elementary school.  Imagine all the teachers, children, watching the most powerful man in the western hemisphere read instead of talk to them. 

I don’t care if Palin goes Guy Pearce in Memento; this is not an area where you should be calling people out, Mr. Gibbs.