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CB

A Happy Letter From CB

Scott,

     Did you know that to maintain our current spending trajectory and to keep our entitlements as they are the middle to upper middle class would have to pay 60-85% income tax rates (source: IMF). That the entitlement programs which the democrats created during the New Deal and the Great Society (which have expanded ever since their creation) have a ***$211 trillion*** unfunded liability!!! 

     Did you know we could eliminate ALL discretionary spending right now and we would still need to borrow. We could eliminate the ENTIRE military and we would still need to borrow. In about 20 years we could eliminate both -the ENTIRE military and ALL discretionary- that is to say the ENTIRE federal government and we still couldn't pay the entitlements? 

     That we could confiscate all income, assets, savings, property -everything- of all people making over $100,000 per year and we STILL couldn't pay the entitlements? We still couldn't pay the HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of people deemed by our federal government to be entitled to millions of dollars of free lifetime benefits? And if we did such a confiscation it would be ***ONE TIME ONLY*** and the economy would completely collapse into something like North Korea or Cuba with almost zero economic activity replete with mass famine and repression?

     Then the far-left fundamentalist extremists would finally have satisfied their radical obsession of single party iron fisted rule (to save life on this planet as we know it, of course) and we all skip off into the sunset holding hands singing kum baye ya with no one person having a single penny more than the other. Except for the socialist vanguard overseeing and managing the utopia right here on earth, of course.

 

CB

File Under: Tyrannical Radical Government Expansionism

Let’s talk about the changes our U.S. federal government has undergone over the last century. One hundred years ago its power and functions were properly and constitutionally constrained. After the New Deal the character of our federal government radically changed from being constrained to doing whatever it wanted to do so long as the Constitution did not prohibit it. This came about because during the Great Depression FDR packed the Supreme Court until they approved his radical socialist expansion. The Great Society wildly expanded this mode giving us the socialist welfare state which is bankrupting us today. But now our federal government has entered a new phase where it not only does whatever it wants to do, it is insisting on telling us what we must and must not do, against our will, while it churns out hundreds of thousands of pages per year of new rules, laws, regulations, and orders limiting our freedoms according to IT’S desires. The federal government has radically changed from its inception and is rapidly constraining the American People with its self-created fourth branch of government- the vast array of regulatory agencies. The people in these agencies have a wildly divergent view of their relationship with the American People. The regulators believe they “own” the U.S. and we are merely here to do what they say- we are here to obey their commands. Enabled by massive thousand page laws which create autonomous agency “rule-writing authority”, they self-expand their legal jurisdictions and spew out hundreds upon thousands of new “laws” yearly. They do this completely outside of the Constitutional law-making process and completely outside the reach of elections and consent of the governed. 

This is EXACTLY what our Founding Fathers fought a war against and designed a charter to prevent from ever happening again. But alas, this is the trajectory that all governments, given enough time, will take. Have you ever been to a lake or reservoir that is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “owned”? There are lots of them in Texas. The Corps sets up a buffer around the lake and nobody can use that land nor the lake itself. At this very moment, Lisa Jackson, the revolutionary socialist director of the EPA, is attempting to unilaterally give the EPA *legal controlling authority* over all water within the United States. She is trying to claim that *any* body of water, beach, coastline, lake, river, stream, creek, or puddle *no matter how small* plus buffer zones around it are now “owned” by the U.S. federal government. Every. Single. Drop. For our own protection and safety, of course. This is such a radical jump in character by the Obama administration that even I am speechless. In addition to this the EPA has also been relentlessly issuing new air regulations which are going to cripple our electricity generating capacity and coal industry and will cause electricity rates to skyrocket killing hundreds of thousands of jobs. Oil drilling, exploration, and production in the Gulf of Mexico has been reduced by 70% under Obama’s iron fisted rule. 

These regulations go far far beyond anything considered environmental protection or quality and instead fall squarely under “tyrannical radical government expansionism”. Most of the air regulations are being deliberately and specifically designed to cripple Texas- the enemy of the socialist elite who are determined to place America under their rule. This act of custom designing laws and regulations for the sole purpose of punishing those who resist its “socialist revolution”, destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process, is so extreme that it is reminiscent of what Stalin did to the Ukraine when they resisted his socialist expansion.

A reading of our Declaration of Independence slowly, thoughtfully, and line-by-line is more relevant than ever. 

Our federal government has become tyranny personified. 

Obamacare is set to nationalize our entire healthcare system driving our already impossible to sustain spending much higher and forcing people who already pay 35-50% tax rates to fork out $18,000/yr per household to pay for their Obamacare “insurance exchange” product so that non-taxpayers who are *already* getting $20-40,000/yr of free government stuff may get their healthcare free. 

Our fedgov dishes out such astronomically large sums of free government money to its privileged faction of voting patrons that according to the IMF tax rates on the middle to upper-middle class would have to climb to an astonishing 60-85% to sustain the free-money gravy train. Under this scenario the upper-middle class would be allowed to keep only 15% of their pay, and to actually start paying down the massive accumulated debt, which equals the entire annual output of the U.S. economy, tax rates would have to rise even higher than this. Of course even half this measure would collapse the economy like a stalled aircraft turning us into Cuba, tax revenues would plunge, and we would enter a super-depression like the world has never seen replete with famine, starvation deaths, and a worldwide historical calamity. 

Yet when We The People demand a stop to this spending orgy our own federal government LASHES OUT at us- demanding that WE shut up, demanding that WE obey, and insisting that OUR money does not even belong to us. Our federal government, its army of free-money privileged patrons, and its politburo of iron fisted regulators have become a parasitic mafia who have hijacked our nation and, short of another American Revolution, are perched to crush us.

CB

If you need birth control- BUY IT

The fedgov is going to DICTATE (with its new superpower status under Obamacare) to insurance companies that something will now be “free” and have neither deductible nor co-pay? Does that make any sense to you??? Only a government can think or operate this way and this is why Socialists collapse every nation they get their hands on. If you need birth control- BUY IT. What is so f-ing hard about that??? Here are the motivations behind the ever looming monstrosity in Washington D.C.:

1) Make private insurance so expensive people can’t afford it and then scapegoat the insurers as evil greedy health deniers when it’s really the gov’s fault for the costs. This falls under the category of “evil”. 

2) Include all these “free” things under Obama’s subsidized and free “health insurance exchanges”. 

3) Entice people with its subsidized, lower than private insurance price (because your neighbor is paying for it with taxes) into the “exchanges”. 

4) Collapse private insurance and drive employers to drop employer-based coverage. 

5) You now live in Europe and you didn’t even have to buy a plane ticket. Enjoy that 50% income tax bite –AND- a VAT. 

6) Remember the good old times before YOUR standard of living collapsed. You are now near poverty and dependent on the gov for your well-being. 

7) Yearn to be free again but, with most of the nation dependent on the gov for their every need from A-Z, there only seems to be far-left democrats winning every election everywhere and they’ve only just begun stealing your money and eliminating your liberty. 

8) Think about moving to another country as the U.S. gets destroyed by socialists.

CB

MSM Has Hashtagged Foxnews

So I'm listening to Mark Steyn this morning filling in for Rush. He was talking about why the every single American MSM was covering the News Corp. hacking scandal live. He was of the opinion that it was because the MSM want SO much for something to be linked to Foxnews. They smell blood. While I agree, I have another theory. Here's what I think:

As I was listening I remembered that nearly every time the MSM reported on the hacking scandal, leading up to the televised hearings, they always added in the end that News Corp. was Foxnews' parent company. So now, with the hearings being aired live everywhere, people will associate News Corp. with Foxnews, forgetting that this whole thing is about a British tabloid and cops....in the UK. The MSM want people to associate Foxnews with scandal. It works you know, if you say "News Corp., parent company of Foxnews" enough times, people will naturally think Foxnews every time News Corp. is mentioned and the MSM is hoping and praying that Newscorp. and Murdoch go down, or at least smeared in a most massive way.

I am convinced that all the MSM outlets were told to do this. They were told to make sure that everyone knows that News Corp. is Foxnews' parent company. They were hashtagging Foxnews.

Quite A Price To Pay For Your Neighbors Stuff

Throughout all of human history, unlimited government power has always been the source of all tyranny. And freedom has always been the antidote. Your neighbor making more money than you is not tyranny. A rich person having more money than you is not tyranny. A rich person created far far more wealth and economic activity for society than their own miniscule-by-comparison personal assets. This is how they got rich. They are not taking it away from you or anybody else. They created it. Their spending creates jobs and incomes. Their investments create jobs and incomes. Their ideas and creativity create jobs and income and progress- capitalism is how we went from hunter-gatherer tribes dying at age 24 in misery to skyscrapers and 747’s and high-tech dental crowns for your teeth. The unlimited use of government power to destroy and steal from the rich because you are greedy, because you want what they have without actually having to, you know, work for it or do what they did, is tyranny. Socialism is history’s most tyrannical form of government. Creating a class of less-equals from which to extract unlimited free-forced labor for the benefit of the more-equals who are entitled to the less-equals free forced labor via endless free money and free benefits is tyranny. While I pay a 50% total tax rate and essentially am being robbed because I am one of the nation’s ‘millionaires and billionaires’ (I’m an airline pilot who grew up poor) so that my neighbors can enjoy a work-free life of free housing, food, healthcare, public education, income, retirement income, disability, unemployment, WIC, retirement healthcare, utilities, school lunches, college tuition and so on and so on and so on while simultaneously not paying any taxes nor being productive while I simultaneously pay for all those things myself with my small amount of leftover (post 50% total tax rate) disposable income is tyranny. North Korea and Cuba practice socialism. How’s that working out? The literally and figuratively burning to the ground Greece civilization practices socialism. How’s that working out? The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the most repressive entity in all of human history. How do that work out? And Western Europe’s democratic socialism, the use of unlimited government power which lets entitlement mentality, greedy, lazy, ignorant, or really strange and scary people enslave the other via voting themselves somebody else’s money always leads to the same dead end- their tyranny always runs out of other people’s money. When that happens we get an unlimited power central government run and controlled one-party(!) socialist ruled civilization. Even more tyranny. Quite a price to pay because some people want what their neighbor has without actually having to, you know, actually work for it and quite a price to pay because some people want somebody else to pay their medical (and other) bills. Property rights are the cornerstone of human rights. Lose those and you will lose all others. All of history’s past and current tyrannies violate property rights. Socialism violates property rights on a mass scale and is the most infamous form of tyrannical government ever devised. You don’t think so yourself because you are not yet its victim. But you seem fairly young so you’ll get a chance to see its grip clamp down right here in the United States.

CB

The Best Facebook Comment Evah!

 I posted this link today on Facebook:

Obama: Unneeded Income Belongs to the Government 

 along with my comment:

 

SB: What more do you need? Salary caps for private citizens coming soon. As well as no term limits for the President.

 

My brother and most of the time mentor responded with this gem:

 CB: Amazing indeed. I wrote a long editorial about this today myself. He DOUBLED the dept. of education's budget in one year - showering academics and students with free money - so much so they don't know how to spend it all, in between their time fervently voting for Obama. And now he says your extra money is not yours? It's for somebody else who didn't save or work enough for themselves??? It's the gov's money whose official responsibility is the endless redistribution of our money until we are all exactly the same- like that funny Wendy's fashion show commercial making fun of the olive drab Soviet socialist tyranny? We have NO PROPERTY RIGHTS???? Because this is what Obama is saying. He believes in unlimited tyrannical government power over the powerless individial. He believes in enslaving productive taxpayers who he then uses to feed, clothe and house the free money army. He is a socialist. 

 

 

 

I commented back: Is next svimwear.

 

Immelt, GE and Obama

Rush had a great segment this morning about statements Immelt said at the C of C. The great guys at The Blaze posted a summary and audio of that segment. I want to post a summary of the summary! LOL I know it's just easier to go to The Blaze and just read and hear for yourself but I wanted to post here, on my blog. Just because!

During a small business summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Immelt, who also chairs President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, said businesses need to “get some action underway.”

“The people who are part of the business sector, the people in this room, have got to stop complaining about government and get some action underway,” he told the group. “There’s no excuse today for lack of leadership. The truth is we all need to be part of the solution.”

Immelt is suggesting that businesses be part of the solution by hiring people and to stop complaining about the government.

GE had 5 Billion in profits and paid NO taxes on them.
AND GE has consistently downsized its staff each year since 2009, dropping an approximate 36 thousand employees in just two short years.

“Let Obama give every company in America the same tax break he gave to GE and see how many people they hire”
“Obama and Immelt are like a couple radical Islamic imams telling businesses to sacrifice themselves for the cause.”
“Go blow yourself up and destroy your business” mocked Limbaugh.

Gotta Love Rush!

The Obama Is EVIL.

Let’s employ some hindsight, shall we? Remember way way back at the beginning of Obama’s assault on America’s free-market capitalism when, along with Obamacare, he NATIONALIZED the student loan industry? Remember the sordid details? Students with loans get forgiveness if they remain in academia or serve as government employees. But this is ass-backwards, isn’t it? Governments fund education as an INVESTMENT with the anticipation of a RETURN. How can any educational dollars provide a return unless the graduate becomes a productive private-economy worker producing TAX DOLLARS?? Additionally, the academia and government employees enjoy far higher salaries and much more time off (academics get AT LEAST 4 paid months off per year) than their private economy counterparts. They enjoy permanent tenure regardless of mass incompetence and the ability to never get fired. Because of this academics and gov employees should be getting paid less than their private counterparts. The academia and government employees in general enjoy taxpayer-provided lavish pensions for life. Their private counterparts pay for their own 401k’s. Because of this academics and gov employees should be getting paid even less than their private counterparts. 

So why in the world would Obama create even more debt when in the future his policy starts cancelling the student loans of government employees and public-employee academics? Shouldn’t he have rewarded underpaid and productive TAXPAYERS instead?? When you realize that government employees and public-employee academics are HUGE Obama supporters and at the same time combine this realization with the image of Greek civilization both literally and figuratively burning to the ground because of the EXACT SAME free-money for the voting patrons of socialism’s feedback-cycle that Obama has been furiously foisting upon us no matter how hard we resist which continues apace even at this very moment, even a small child would come to the conclusion the Obama is EVIL.

CB