Obama should be careful when talking about perks

There is the use of two private jets, Boeing 747s better known as Air Force One. And of course the constant security details, drivers, a private chef, a country vacation estate and the rent-free use of a well-known, 132-room mansion called the White House.

read ABC NEWS article here

Glenn Beck on our march to Socialism

Now that capitalism is waning in America and socialism is on the rise, it is time to re-think how we will continue to provide for our families. No longer can we count on the fact that if you work hard you will be rewarded. No longer can we rely on the fact that it is every citizes responsibility to provide for self and family. No longer is it only those that cannot take care of themselves that deserve the government’s assistance. Now we are all deserving
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The Impending Obama Meltdown

by Victor Davis Hanson

Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S. media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary. And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather than scrutiny.

We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking.

First, there were the sermons on ethics, belied by the appointments of tax dodgers, crass lobbyists, and wheeler-dealers like Richardson—with the relish of the Blago tapes still to come. (And why does Richardson/Daschle go, but not Geithner?).

Second, was the "stimulus" (the euphemism for "borrow/print money") that was simply a way to go into debt for a generation to shower Democratic constituencies with cash.

Then third, there were the inflated lectures on historic foreign policy to be made by the clumsy political novice who trashed his own country and his predecessor in the most ungracious manner overseas to a censored Saudi-run press organ (e.g., Bush is dictatorial, the Saudi king is courageous; Obama can mend bridges that America broke to aggrieved Muslims—apparently Tehran hostages, Rushdie, serial attacks in the 1990s, 9/11, Madrid, London never apparently occurred; and neither did feeding Somalis, saving Kuwait, protesting Chechnya, Bosnia/Kosovo, billions to Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinians, help in two Afghan wars, and on and on).

Fourth, there was the campaign rhetoric of Bush shredding the Constitution—FISA, Guantánamo, the Patriot Act, Iraq, renditions, etc.—followed by "all that for now stays the same" inasmuch as we haven't ben hit in over seven years and can't risk another attack.

Fifth, Gibbs as press secretary is a Scott McClellan nightmare that won't go away, given his long McClellan-like relationship with Obama (McClellan should have been fired on day hour one on the job). Blaming Fox News for Obama's calamities is McClellan to the core and doesn't work. He already reminds me of Reverend Wright's undoing at the National Press Club—and he will get worse.

Six, Biden is being Biden. Already, he's ridiculed the chief justice, trashed the former VP, bragged on himself ad nauseam in Bidenesque weird ways, and it's only been two weeks.

And the result of all this?

At home, Obama is becoming laughable and laying the groundwork for the greatest conservative populist reaction since the Reagan Revolution.

Abroad, some really creepy people are lining up to test Obama's world view of "Bush did it/but I am the world": The North Koreans are readying their missiles; the Iranians are calling us passive, bragging on nukes and satellites; Russia is declaring missile defense is over and the Euros in real need of iffy Russian gas; Pakistanis say no more drone attacks (and then our friends the Indians say "shut up" about Kashmir and the Euros order no more "buy American").

This is quite serious. I can't recall a similarly disastrous start in a half-century (far worse than Bill Clinton's initial slips). Obama immediately must lower the hope-and-change rhetoric, ignore Reid/Pelosi, drop the therapy, and accept the tragic view that the world abroad is not misunderstood but quite dangerous. And he must listen on foreign policy to his National Security Advisor, Billary, and the Secretary of Defense. If he doesn't quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterism—angry that the once-fawning press betrayed him while we the people, due to our American malaise, are to blame.
02/04 07:15 AM

Read Victor Davis Hanson here

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No wonder Democrats always want raise taxes, its because they don't pay them!

Al Gore can't convince grownups of Global Warming, so he's moved on to 12 year olds.

This from Glenn Beck's radio program.

Gore to 12 year olds: 'you know things older people don't know' Amazing audio that a listener, Andy, sent to us of Al Gore giving a speech to 3,000 young school kids the day before inauguration. Andy's 12 year old daughter was recording the whole time. We all know that Gore would blab on and on about the dangers of global warming (hopefully in 15 years when the Earth hasn't melted the kids will realize it's not as tragic as Gore makes it sound) but the real shocker was how he told these kids NOT to listen to their parents.
Read the transcript

Gore indoctrinates the kids (audio): Here are two long sections of the speech Gore gave. The first part is Gore telling kids why they shouldn't listen to their parents---about halfway through it skips to the part where he tries to scare the kids about global warming. Notice how he reminds them that they are not bound by 'old assumptions.'
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'500 MILLION AMERICANS LOSE JOBS EVERY MONTH'

Is this woman stupid, or what!? Who votes for these morons?

Does any of this sound familiar?

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (that means no private property)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (been there, done that)
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (death tax, almost there on this one)
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (who exactly is a rebel?)
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. (well on our way on this one)
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. (sounds somewhat like the 'Fairness Doctrine' to me)
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. (who cares if you have worked hard enough to retire) Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. (any one home schooling is ridiculed) Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.

These are the tenets of the Communist Manifesto. Google it.

I will leave forn policy to the grown ups

President Obama to water down 'Buy American' plan after EU trade war threat

India warns Obama over Kashmir

After Obama Overture, Iran’s Leader Seeks U.S. Apology

Obama's next HHS nominee

Surely Pooh has paid his taxes ... ?

Vetted - to acquire the GM car of choice

When BO heard that his nominees were going to be vetted, he thought that was their perk to bail out the auto industry.

OR

When BO heard vetting, he thought thats what he did to his new dog every 6 months.

Iraqi Elections, maybe there is something to this freedom thing

from The National Post
by Jonathan Kay
On Saturday, Iraq conducted what may stand as the freest, fairest and most genuinely representative democratic elections the Arab world has ever witnessed. Yet even as the votes are being counted, the man responsible for this remarkable political revolution — who believed that Saddam Hussein's hellish dictatorship could be turned into a model Arab democracy, and mobilized the might of the most powerful nation on earth to do something about it — has already become something of a forgotten man.

George W. Bush made many mistakes during his presidency. But with Saturday's peaceful, vigorously contested election in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, his overarching ambition of a robust democracy taking root in the heart of the Middle East seems to have become a reality. Notwithstanding the ongoing fawn-fest over Barack Obama, is it too much to ask that Mr. Obama's predecessor be given his due for accomplishing a task that, just a decade ago, during the dark days of Saddam's sadistic rule, would have seemed other-worldly?

Iraqi Freedom is Bush's True Legacy

from The Guardian
by William Shawcross
A new generation of Iraqi politicians is coming forward. Many of them are young and secular. They have lived always in Iraq, not in exile; they are Iraqis with local roots first and foremost - they are not pan-Arabs or pan-Islamists. Nor do they have connections to the US.
There will be further setbacks. But who knows, Iraq may yet even become a model for democratic change in other Arab countries. If so, who deserves some credit? The much maligned President Bush. And Tony Blair.

This from the UK!

Shovel ready

What is going on at the New York Times?

I guess near bankruptcy has changed their tune.

An editorial excoriating Tom Daschle!

Opinion mocking the elite in Washington DC?

I guess they will stoop to any level to save their jobs. And they can no longer fill their pages with the evils of George Bush.

Democrats are hypocrites when it comes to paying taxes

They say taxes are a patriotic duty. So why did Geithner and Daschle have trouble paying them?
Jonah Goldberg February 3, 2009

During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden insisted that paying your taxes is a patriotic duty. No, scratch that. He said that supporting a tax hike was the American thing to do. "It's time to be patriotic," he told America's putative tax slackers. When asked whether he might be questioning the patriotism of people who don't want higher taxes, Biden, as is his wont, took things to the next rhetorical level. Forget patriotism, insisted Joe, paying higher taxes is a religious obligation.

The man who gave an average of $369 a year to charity over the previous decade fulfills his religious obligations by cutting a tax check -- a check he's required to cut by law.

Excellent Editorial, read here.

Orwell's 1984 has arrived! Obama's Doublethink

According to the novel, doublethink is:

“The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”

Orwell explains that the Party could not protect its iron power without degrading its people with constant propaganda. Yet, knowledge of this brutal deception, even within the Inner Party itself, could lead to disgusted collapse of the State from within. For this reason, the government uses a complex system of reality control. Though Nineteen Eighty-Four is most famous for the Party's pervasive surveillance of everyday life, reality control means that the population of Oceania — all of it, including the ruling élite — could be controlled and manipulated merely through the alteration of everyday thought and language. Newspeak is the method for controlling thought through language; doublethink is the method of directly controlling thought.

AMERICA! Wake up! Its a great day, we no longer have to pay our taxes!

I know why Democrats always want to raise taxes, BECAUSE THEY DON'T BOTHER TO PAY THEM!

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination to be Health and Human Services secretary. Daschle has been battling for his nomination since it was disclosed he failed to pay more than $120,000 in taxes.

Social Security: National Ponzi Scheme

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was set up to combat fraudulent practices.
The SEC's Web site explains that "Ponzi schemes are a type of illegal pyramid scheme named for Charles Ponzi, who duped thousands of New England residents into investing in a postage stamp speculation scheme back in the 1920s."

It goes on to say, "Decades later, the Ponzi scheme continues to work on the 'rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul' principle, as money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the whole scheme collapses."

That is how the SEC described the recent Bernard Madoff $50 billion Ponzi scheme, "a stunning fraud that appears to be of epic proportions."
A Ponzi scheme does not generate any wealth whatsoever; that is why it ultimately collapses.

So long as the number of late comers — you might call them suckers — grows, the fraudulent scheme has life.

In 1940, there were 42 workers per retiree, in 1950 there were 16, today there are three and in 20 or 30 years there will be two or fewer workers per retiree.
Social Security is unsustainable because it is not meeting the first order condition of a Ponzi scheme, namely expanding the pool of suckers. Social Security has been one congressional lie after another since its inception.

There is little or nothing that can be done to prevent the economic and political chaos that will result from the collapse of Social Security.
Today's recipients of Social Security, along with their powerful AARP lobby, represent a powerful political force.
Few politicians are willing to risk their careers alienating today's senior citizens for the benefit of Americans in 2040.
After all, what do today's seniors and politicians care about a 2040 calamity? They will be dead by then.

Investors Business Daily editorial

Dear President Obama,

I will pay my taxes as soon as I get a cabinet position.
I am suspending my Federal Withholding and when I get the telegram, I'll pay my back taxes.
Just FYI.

My solution to the healthcare ‘crisis’.

It is an elegant, simple solution. I cannot understand why no one has thought of this before.

Here it is:

The government will mandate that anyone involved in the healthcare industry will take a 50% cut in pay.*

That should reduce the cost of healthcare by a substantial amount. Doctors make too much money anyway. If everyone that is not in the healthcare business gets on-board with this proposal, we can get it passed.

*Except for anyone working in research, because my wife does research. Doesn’t this sound just like how government functions?

I’m so damn smart, I think I’ll run for one of those government jobs. I can't do any worse than what we have.