Hard Truth: Government spending does not create Prosperity

Whether it is Thad Cochran in Mississippi or Robert Byrd in West Virginia, many politicians like to sell what they "bring home from Washington" as something akin to manna in the Old Testament.

The recent death of Robert Byrd illustrates how vacuous that promise is. Byrd brought home $4billion in pork in the last 20 years of his senate seat, read it all here.

Despite all this largess, West Virginia is still the third poorest state in the Union.

Cochran of Mississippi has brought home a similar bounty and scoffs at constituents who plead for fiscal responsibility. If Mississippi isn't at the bottom of the poor state list, it is close.

Federal spending does not replace or supplant hard work and individual responsibility.

Sex Ed in Montana.........strong content warning!

Why am I posting the Sodom and Gommorah pix again?

Read this about a proposed Sex Ed program in Montana for public schools:

The Helena Public School system is considering a comprehensive plan for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It includes teaching first graders that people can be attracted to the same gender. In second grade students are instructed to avoid gay slurs and by the time students turn 10 years old they are taught about various types of intercourse.

According to the draft proposal obtained by FOX News Radio, fifth graders should “understand that sexual intercourse includes but is not limited to vaginal, oral, or anal penetration.”

Education obviously is not the 3 R's anymore.

Like your tax dollars going for this?

I bet Kevin Jennings thinks this is just great!

Who is Kevin Jennings? Use the search function on this blog to go back and see some of Kevin's work for the Federal Government.

Conservative values in Action: New Jersey!

New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the Christie administration today.

State parks, psychiatric hospitals and even turnpike toll booths could also be run by private operators, according to the 57-page report on privatization obtained by The Star-Ledger. Preschool classrooms would no longer be built at public expense, state employees would pay for parking and private vendors would dish out food, deliver health care and run education programs behind prison walls.

The state conducts more than 1.94 million initial inspections a year and pays for all of them. Drivers pay only if they fail the inspections and have to make repairs.

Privatization is a good thing: it injects competition into feather-bedded state jobs.

But let's take it one step further: a risk/benefit analysis on car inspections. Does the cost of car inspections lead to a benefit which is worth the cost? If the answer is no, then drop the whole darn thing and work on something that does have a tangible benefit.

Obama: Week in Review

As he pursues his efforts to transform America by collapsing the system, let's reveiw briefly some of those efforts this week: Five that quickly come to mind:

1. Oil Moratorium: still trying to strangle oil development in the Gulf and elsewhere.

2. Medicare & ObamaCare: used a recess appointment to slip David Berwick, a redistributionist and socialist into running these programs

3. DOJ: holding strong to the position that it is okay for black militants to engage in voter intimidation.

4. NASA: forget the moon, mars, or that fabulously expensive space station, we have to make muslims feel good about themselves.

5. Defend the broders: screw you Arizona, see you in court. The borders are as secure as we want them to be.

Sodom and Gomorrah

In the ancient bible story, God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for their vulgar immoral ways.

Check out this story about the Washington DC Capital Pride Parade and it's "sponsorship" by the Episcopal Church here.

Forget a moment about biblical admonistions against homosexual activity. What about decency? None of that is observed here in this event.

That an Episcopal parish (St. Thomas) would take part in the parade is bad enough. That the Bishop of the Diocese of Washington was a participant is beyond the pale.

It is hard to believe that God is pleased.

Let the Numbers Speak

A new gallup poll here reveals some interesting statistics.

The headline of course is Obama Job Approval Rating Down to 38% Among Independents.

Yes, that is an interesting number and not too surprising given the socialist-leftist thrust of the administration as it tries to transform American into a western-European socialist state.

The most interesting number to me is that Meanwhile, Obama maintains the support of 81% of Democrats,

Really? While Obama seeks to unravel the country and turn it into a socialist state 81% of Democrats support that move?

So here is my question: are most Democrats anti-American? And if the answer is yes, what do they consider themselves? Socialist, Communists?

What else to make of these numbers?

New Black Panthers: Off Limits or Not?

Let's pretend for a moment that a group of KKK supporters took up position outside a voting place in Jackson, Mississippi and intimidated black voters and called for whites to kill blacks and black babies. Do you think that would cause an uproar in Washington, DC?

Duh, do you even have to think about that?

Yet, the group calling themselves the New Black Panthers did just that in 2008. Yet, as reported here, the Dept of Justice under Obama's AG Eric Holder told the DOJ not to pursue the cases or any case that involves black on white victims.

It sounds like this story is getting ready to explode, just in time for the November elections. Very good timing. Keep watch.

President Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is "essentially identical" to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in 2006. No one but Mr. Romney disagrees.

As events are now unfolding, the Massachusetts plan couldn't be a more damning indictment of ObamaCare. The state's universal health-care prototype is growing more dysfunctional by the day, which is the inevitable result of a health system dominated by politics.

The deeper problem is that price controls seem to be the only way the political class can salvage a program that was supposed to reduce spending and manifestly has not. Massachusetts now has the highest average premiums in the nation.

In a new paper, Stanford economists John Cogan and Dan Kessler and Glenn Hubbard of Columbia find that the Massachusetts plan increased private employer-sponsored premiums by about 6%. Another study released last week by the state found that the number of people gaming the "individual mandate"—buying insurance only when they are about to incur major medical costs, then dumping coverage—has quadrupled since 2006.

Liberals write off such consequences as unimportant under the revisionist history that the plan was never meant to reduce costs but only to cover the uninsured. Yet Mr. Romney wrote in these pages shortly after his plan became law that every resident "will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced."

You can't beat the science of economics......read it all here.

Words and Their Lack of Meaning: DOJ sues Arizona

As reported here, BHO's Dept of Justice with Eric Holder is suing the state of Arizona and its governor Janet Brewer for, get this, the Justice Department claims the federal government has "preeminent authority" on immigration enforcement and that the Arizona law "disrupts" that balance.

Upsets the balance of the Fed's authority on immigration? Darn Good Thing!

Because the Federal policy forever has been for open borders on the south and north. Arizona is merely trying to do what the Fed's won't do.

Stay tuned for lots more to be sure!

Harboring Illegal Immigrants: not priceless, $113B per year

This recently published study contends that harboring illegal immigrants in the US cost $113B or as the study says, an average of $1,117 for every “native-headed” household in America -- according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The study, a copy of which was provided to FoxNews.com, “is the first and most detailed look at the costs of illegal immigration ever done,” says Bob Dane, director of communications at FAIR, a conservative organization that seeks to end almost all immigration to the U.S.

Read it all here.

Off Topic: Never Enough

Hat Tip: Susan R

Garbage In, Garbage Out: too many brains, too little common sense

You just gotta love the New York Times! Just when you think things can't get any stupider, when no one will have the guts to just publish something so stupid as to make you outwardly laugh, there is the NYT to rescue your day.

In the midst of the worst economic and political crisis of the last 100 years, what does the New York Times publish for us to contemplate?

More government of course! For example, it could create a program to restructure consumer debt. Although rates on 10-year Treasury bonds are only about 3 percent, many consumers still carry tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt at 20 percent or more. This burden has been a continuing drag on spending. The federal government could reduce it by borrowing at 3 percent and lending to consumers at 8 percent under a one-time debt-restructuring plan. Get that, "a one time plan",,,,,yeah, right!

Hold on to your lunch, this one is the best: Another useful measure would be a carbon tax — or its approximate equivalent, a cap-and-trade system — scheduled for a gradual phase-in after the economy has again reached full employment. This would stimulate an immediate, huge jump in private investment without the government having to spend a penny.

Still scratching your head on that one? The Cap & Tax would make every car, machine, and appliance obsolete; thus all the research needed to design and build new ones would [magically] so stimulate the economy that gold would run in the streets.

I am sure glad they were kidding when they published this!

A Reaction to the New Exciting NASA Mission!

Yesterday, we posted the unbelievable new mission for NASA: helping to improve muslim relations!

Being willing to double check ourselves, we looked around for other reactions: and we found this which pretty much speaks for itself.

Political Parties: they manipulate us, they don't lead us

This story, from the Washington Post, unwittingly provides a perfect illustration of how the established political parties manipulate us to THEIR ends, rather than seek to lead us.

The Dems are fretting that white voters are leaving Obama in droves (gee, wonder why?). So, do the dems propose to change they way they lead the country to try and imporve their standing with white voters to try and bring them back into the fold?

Oh my heavens no........To avoid such losses, the Democratic National Committee has committed to spending tens of millions of dollars to re-create (or come somewhere near re-creating) the 2008 election model, in which Democrats relied heavily on higher-than-normal turnout from young people and strong support from African American and Hispanic voters.

The DNC's plan is ambitious, to say the least: In the space of a few months, the strategists hope to change the composition of a midterm electorate that, if history is any guide, tends to be older and whiter than in a presidential-election year. Put that way, it sounds crazy -- and it has drawn considerable skepticism from independent observers.

Translated: we are going to skew the electorate enough to squeek by. After they vote we don't care what all those folks go off and do. Just so they negate those pesky white folks on election day!

Makes you want to go work for the party!

I Am Not Making This Up: NASA to help US improve muslim relations

Will Americans go back to the moon? Nope. Will we go to Mars? Maybe when Pigs fly.

So what will we do with NASA, the agency created to get Americans into space?

Well, BHO thinks it is the perfect vehicle to improve muslim relations!! I kid you not. Read it all here.

Here is a question I have: why don't the muslims improve relations with us?

Just askin'........

Democratic Congress: Dishonest & Proud of it!

As another poke in the eye to the American people, Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that "deemed as passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the "deeming" document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.

The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.

Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money. Read it all

here.

On today, this 4th of July, the 234th birthday of this country of Freedom, Liberty, and Independence, we should reflect on these words from the Declaration of Independence;

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security

Chicago Gun Ban: Screw you Supreme Court!!

As predicted and threatened, Chicago's boss, Mayor Daley and his rubberstamp councile have enacted new gun ban laws in light of the Supreme Court decision this week on the 2nd Amendment. Read it all here.

The Justices overturned Chicago’s ban on handguns in the city and 4 days later, city aldermen unanimously approved the most-strict regulations on gun ownership in the nation; 45-0. Daley and his team have carefully crafted the ordinance in an attempt to dodge any conflicts with the supreme-court ruling, but at a press conference the Mayor made it clear that he is ready for a fight. “As long as I’m Mayor, I will never give up or give in to gun violence that continues to threaten every part of our nation including Chicago,” He said at a press conference announcing his counter to the ruling.

The ordinance begrudgingly allows gun owner ship but slaps a host of regulations on top of it. Some of the key regulations are as follows:

Gun owners need a Chicago Firearms permit, which costs $100 and must be renewed every 3 years, in addition to their Illinois Firearm owner’s ID.

Firearms sales are banned in the city.

Chicago residents can register only 1 handgun per month.

When a weapon is transported it much be taken apart and not accessible.

It is illegal to have your gun on the porch, yard or Garage. The gun is only legal inside the residence.

Only one gun in the house can be ready to be fired. The rest must have trigger locks or be disassembled.

Guns are banned from hotels, dorms or group living environments.

And so in the land of Daley, American Rights guaranteed by the Constitution remain under constant attack!

Obama out of touch on jobs: Does he care?

The employment picture in June continues to be bad as reported here.

Over 650,000 Americans gave up looking for work. Over 14 million Americans are searching for work. The economy has shed 8 million jobs since late 2007.

But wait! Just before boarding Air Force One this morning, Obama declared we are going in the right direction and in fact has authorized new Federal spending that will create 5,000 new temporary construction jobs.

Big Whoop! How do you nearly 15 million out of work folks feel about that?

Obama & the Cloward-Piven End Game

As we have noted before, everyday Americans have been puzzled by Obama, whom they elected to make things better for them. They liked him personally, but although he initiated a firestorm of legislative activity, he never seemed to fix anything.

Finally, through the efforts of many on the right to educate people, a growing majority of Americans began to discover that fixing things wasn't really Obama's agenda.

Although small, a growing group of Americans are starting to understand that Obama was never ever about fixing anything; his goal was to transform America. Transform it into just another western-European socialist utopia.

Obama has not cared about polls. He cares not for your approval. He cares for his ideology. But now, even the media, even self-serving industrial leaders, are fleeing him in droves. Not that he cares........except it might damage is drive to transformation.

The transformation is everything for Obama. And now you can see an edge of desperation in his efforts toward that transformation. Even his staunchest supporters are aghast that he would throw immigration reform into the gumbo of legislative initiatives he has on Capital Hill clogging up Congress. But this, he has done."

But he is forced to do that. In order to make his Cloward-Piven built strategy work, he had to create crisis and collapse. But he is running out of time, the backlash threatens not only him, but more importantly, his socialist transformation. And as a true soldier of the socialist war, he cannot let his victory, ever so close, be defeated by the common folk.

From this point on, Obama will become more strident, even more political, possibly even dangerous. Most of the damage of enacted agenda is yet to descend upon America, yet he sees his victory slipping away as inexorably as the oil in the Gulf comes upon the beaches. And he has to push as never before to ensure that his ideology and vision of transformation is not defeated.

The Big Question: Will enough of us see this by November to cripple his power and start to fix the damage?

"But it's for the Children" !!!!!!!!!!!!

You have heard them, we are hearing them in south Mississippi. The screams "you can't cut teacher positions, it's for the Children!!!!!!!!!!"

The Obama Administration wants to borrow another $23 billion to shore up teachers and other school employee union groups because, you guessed it, "it's for the Children!!!!!!!!!"

Really? Take a look at that graph up there: school employment has skyrocketed relative to student enrollment. Does that mean all those extra workers have driven school achievement to similarly stratospheric levels? Ha, Ha, Ha, you know the answer to that question.

So, the only children this $23 billion might help are the children of the union members. Ain't doing nothing for the kiddos in the classroom. But, that wasn't the point in the first place.