Taxed 2 Debt!

Biden must be out of his train-riding mind:

Biden’s new answer to all this extended economic turmoil?  More Big Gov.

Read about it here.

Where’s The Hope?

Where’s the beef hope?

We were promised at least that much, when President Obama was elected, but so far all we’ve gotten is blame and excuses, broken promises and spent money of which the middle class have not seen a dime.

Some are starting to suggest that this is not a recession but a veiled economic depression only being postponed because the market isn’t able to correct itself with all the government spending.  Hope?  Biden says today that we’re moving in the right direction, but which direction is that–the total destruction of the middle class?

Welcome to the Recovery

Welcome to the recovery was the name of Timothy Geitner’s opinion piece in the New York Times last week, and obviously he did not get the memo from reality. This is also the theme of what President Obama will be harping on as he goes around raising money for Democrats for the upcoming election.

It is a moment where the powers that be are telling us not to look behind the curtain but to focus on what the big face is saying and not the facts.

Yesterday President Obama said that things are better because of him, and that begs the question: how do you judge how terrible someone is not doing? Like, in a job performance review, is there a box or a section where it says, well it’s a really bad performance, but it could be so much worse. Here’s a raise.

I’m sorry, I don’t buy the spin by this administration. If you couldn’t fix it–why did you take the job? You want to blame this all on Bush but you’ve passed the most sweeping legislation in the last 30 years. That holds no bearing? You shouldn’t have taken the job if you weren’t going to be held accountable. I’ve heard there is a senator position open in Illinois.

And you can blame Bush for the problems you will have, any of them, even personal constipation, but don’t forget that the people aren’t buying this anymore, and there’s coming a time where you’ll be called out for this lie even by the liberal media. Bush also had a economic crisis at the beginning of his administration too, right after the towers fell, and we pulled out of that pretty quick.

Things are not good and there is a disconnect between regular people and the left elite.  Change?  It’s here.  And it’s lasting. President Obama has changed our economy so that our national export is blame.

Hits from the web:

It’s Monday, and some would say that you may have a case of the Mondays, and that someone should be flogged.

Here’s what’s happening so far:

President Obama will be visiting Dallas, Texas. But no public appearances are scheduled there. In Austin, at a public institution, he’ll be giving a speech. “He knows we have to educate our way to a better economy.” “The administration is also asking Congress for $10.6 billion to improve remedial education and graduation rates at community colleges and for $3.5 billion for a proposed College Access and Completion Fund to underwrite innovative strategies intended to increase the number and percentage of students entering and completing college.”

Meanwhile the Rasmussen Consumer Index is at a 2010 low

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Lessons from 1984: Brother Against Brother

When I hear the charges of racism, false charges, coming out against the Tea Party or any person who is not willing to praise President Obama, it makes me think back to the novel 1984, a piece of fiction written regarding the dangers of Socialism and how totalitarianism attempts to run your entire life.

In the novel the reader gets to see through Winston’s, the protagonist’s, eyes and what we see is a disturbing trend of people living a life of fear. Children are set against their parents, encouraged to report them to their local government authority whenever they express doubt or hesitation in following Ingsoc’s rules and regulations. Ingsoc is the abbreviated term for English Socialism. What the reader has to note is that this fear is an effective tool used by the government to make sure that no group attempts to gather together and discuss the atrocities and perpetual problems of the government. There is no right of assembly left when everyone around you is so afraid to talk because they’re not sure you will turn them in.

And we learned that this is a tactic, too, not that we didn’t already know this but it was spelled out in a recent discovery off of a liberal journalist’s blog: Journolist. Here’s the quote below:

“If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us,” Ackerman wrote on the Journolist listserv in April 2008. “Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

And this is not an isolated opinion. In order to win the argument some on the left just choose to end it by calling conservatives racist. It’s tough to argue after you’ve been labeled as such, and it only leads to further isolation and an ending to the debate. In other words, it’s just what Ingssoc wants; just what the state would want if they had totalitarian goals.

It’s something to remember as the elections come up this November. There all real racists out there on both ends of the political spectrum, so let’s not dilute the word by using it for political purposes.

“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1

Tags: 1984, racism

GOP Weekly Address: Job Crushing Provision

This is from last week but has some really great information:

Have a great Sunday.

Here, Let Me Use Some Common Sense For You There:

A co-worker of mine, a liberal, asked me what I thought about the First Lady’s trip to Spain.  I told her that as far as I know the Obama’s are millionaires and they can go wherever they want.  Now, I know they probably flew on our dime, protected on our dime, and ate on our dime, but I don’t think this would have been a non-cost item if they’d stayed home.

But, it has become an issue in appearance only.  Because the same day Mrs. Obama goes to Spain like this is Sex In The City some new terrible news is released about jobs.  Meanwhile, President Obama is telling us to sacrifice while he tries to find a new ATM card for Fort Knox

Here’s where the new segment comes in: Let me go ahead and use some common sense for you.  First Lady’s, last I checked, can do First Lady things such as read to children, lecture people about not being as physically attractive as them, or any number of community projects/world vision press conferences.  If I’m in the Obama administration I paint this trip as a gesture of good will to Europe, and I plan about three dog shows where the First Lady gets up, waves her hand and flashes her smile, telling the world the importance of gardening.  Then you live it up after spending 30 minutes telling us how we should be more like you, and PR fiasco avoided.

You’re welcome.

Yesterday’s Internet:

In case you were trapped in a cave yesterday, or you were hit by an EMP, or you just went 1980s and neglected the nets, we’re here to give you everything you missed, pertaining to us:

Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal maybe brings up the most alarming statistic in all this economic mess: That the majority of people in America are now believing that their children won’t be better off than themselves.  I don’t agree with everything said in this op-ed, but it certainly is a call to vigilance, read it by clicking here.

FTA: “But do our political leaders have any sense of what people are feeling deep down? They don’t act as if they do. I think their detachment from how normal people think is more dangerous and disturbing than it has been in the past. I started noticing in the 1980s, the growing gulf between the country’s thought leaders, as they’re called—the political and media class, the universities—and those living what for lack of a better word we’ll call normal lives on the ground in America. The two groups were agitated by different things, concerned about different things, had different focuses, different world views.”

That’s a sad state of things, if true.  I personally don’t feel more pessimistic but I can tell that most do, and that’s just not in the DNA of this nation.

You Paid For This: Mayberry Shakedown

Andy Griffith, who of course played the iconic role of Andy Taylor in the 60′s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, has been hired by you. Didn’t know you had that kind of swag? I didn’t either. I’m not going to harp on Andy here, because he’s old and he sees the writing on the wall: get all the money you can now because it’s about to get bleak.

But you should know that you paid for this: You paid for the hiring of a celebrity to alter your own opinion. How duplicitous of yourself. It cost 700,000 dollars. I’m not going to show the video, instead I’m going to show some good old fashion, non-socialist Mayberry. Enjoy:

Also, there’s some promising news out of Missouri where they voted no to allowing the federal government to force you to buy things.  Read about it here. “With most of the vote counted, Proposition C was winning by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. The measure, which seeks to exempt Missouri from the insurance mandate in the new health care law…”

That’s a good video above, isn’t it?  The government could have shown this for free across the nation instead of spending the jack, and people would have been happier and less demeaned.

Tags: Tax and Government Frustration, waste