Ineptocracy

A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

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Happy To Do My Part Gentlemen

Obama Twists and Shouts

 Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said this:
“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that,” Rep. Foxx said in a radio interview.
“We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ You don’t sit on your butt and have it dumped in your lap,” she added.

Here's what Obama said she said:
“I want to read a quote. This is from a Republican congresswoman. I didn’t really understand this. I’m quoting her,” the president said.
“She said that she has ‘very little tolerance for people who tell me they graduate with debt because there’s no reason for that.’ She said, students who rack up student loan debt are just sitting on their butts, having opportunity ‘dumped in your lap.’”

 I think this is a good example as to how people like Obama twist other peoples words to get the reaction they want from whomever they're talking to. It can be as simple as leaving a word or two out, or adding a word or two. Changes everything don't it?

If The President Has The Power...

So, if the President has the power to mandate that a private company provide a service(s) for free, and he has the power (via Obamacare) to mandate that all citizens buy a product and all employers provide a product, then he has the power to mandate all citizens and/or employers do, or not do...buy or not buy ANYTHING he wants. Right?

Hard work, sacrifice, and the freedom to rise

     I had to endure listening to a “liberal” coworker endlessly lament the shrinking of America’s middle class because the rich were too rich. I finally had to intervene and correct his ill-conceived thoughts. I began by discussing America’s last wave of immigrants circa the 1900’s. We both agreed that they were incredibly hard working. Our grandparents were incredibly hardworking and frugal. Their parents even more so which continues with each previous generation. Hard work, sacrifice, and the freedom to rise created the middle class and hard work, sacrifice, and the freedom to rise created this nation, its wealth and power. What is destroying the middle class, I explained, is not the rich creating too much of the pie. Rather, it is an ever growing percentage of the population creating too little of the pie. 

     They are becoming ever more dependent on entitlements, hooked on government-provided services, and have to work less and less and less because our nation’s massive and growing safety nets now provide a cradle to grave decent living. A large percentage of our population expects a materialistically high standard of living yet doesn’t want to do the backbreaking labor, rigorous studies, penny pinching, or sacrifice earlier generations had to do to acquire it. We are succumbing to the warm feel-good of socialism and because of this an ever growing percentage of the population no longer saves for their children’s education, their own retirement or retirement healthcare, they no longer have to worry about where the food on their table comes from, who’ll pay their utility bills, or even the roof over their head. The audaciously aloof attitudes within our massive and exponentially growing low income neighborhoods is all the proof you’ll need to see that this is, in fact, a very real phenomenon. 

     As the horsepower of our nation’s workforce dwindles and they become more entitled, our nation will decline, government spending will continue to rise, and we will continue to veer wildly off our founding path by over-burdening and over taxing our shrinking pool productive workers, violating their Constitutional right to equal protection under the law and their right to own and keep their own property. As this phenomenon continues to spread unabated, we face a mortal threat when the unproductive dependents produce socialist electoral landslides who’ll use their unchecked power to turn the page of our nation’s history into something rotten. Much to my surprise, my “liberal” coworker agreed.

 CB

The Evidence Is In At UC Davis

 h/t to The Right Scoop

First let me offer up the evidence (so far):

• We have police warning the protestors.

• We have this telling interview "We had encircled them [campus police], and they were trying to leave, and they were trying to clear a path. And so, we sat down, linked arms, and said that if they wanted to clear the path, they would have to go through us"

• We have more video of the protestors being clearly warned and they were cool with it

• Then we have the video that everybody has seen, over and over.

Which video do you think the #Occupiers and the Main Stream Media is publicizing the most? What a surprise, right? This is a perfect example, in my opinion, of how the left leaning media (which is just about all of them) is manipulating public opinion. How many "humorous" Photoshopped pictures of the cop pepper spraying someone have you seen? All based on what the media has chosen to report, what they have chosen for you to see. Bias by omission.

We have video proof that the protestors at UC Davis purposely did not comply, were warned repeatedly, they provoked and surrounded the police officers leaving them (the police) no choice but to follow through with their warnings. Yet we have MSM talking heads calling the police pigs. Why is the media not reporting these events leading up to the pepper spraying? Because it doesn't fit the leftist, liberal narrative... #OWS, Democrats and the media NEED the public opinion to be in favor of these protestors, after all they're "the reason" Obama "ran for office in the first place.”

The protestors are useful idiots being used by the Marxist unions, the Democrats and a long list of other nefarious groups and organizations. The media is manipulating public opinion because after all, the main stream media IS one of those nefarious organizations.

Don't be one of the manipulated. Don't take the complacent, water carrying media's word for it, DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK.

Top Down, Bottom Up

Sons Of Bitches, Bastards, Zombies and Staplers

WE THE PEOPLE want to lynch blacks.
WE THE PEOPLE can go straight to hell.
WE THE PEOPLE are the sons of bitches.
WE THE PEOPLE are the bastards.
They want to murder WE THE PEOPLE and Obama is proud. 

UPDATE: WE THE PEOPLE are zombies and must die.

Um, Obama? I'm gonna need your stapler.

@WashingtonDC It's the ---ENTITLEMENT SPENDING---

@WashingtonDC It's the ---ENTITLEMENT SPENDING--- That is what this is all about. Any other explanation out of you signals dishonesty, ideologically-driven blindness, and/or ignorance. Entitlement spending is eclipsing ALL tax revenues RIGHT NOW. That's why we are borrowing so much (you can easily research this yourself with your own government's data). Entitlement spending keeps exponentially exploding upwards as our society ages and collects their Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and soon Obamacare. Our entitlement recipients paid a tiny fraction in taxes compared to what they'll receive. They are getting a free lunch. Entitlement spending keeps going up and up and up and up so high that NO AMOUNT of taxes on ANYBODY can ever pay for it. There is not even enough productive capacity within the entire United States to pay for it. The unfunded entitlement liability owed is ***$211 Trillion***. You cannot pay out that much free money forever. We will run out of money no matter what we do and we are simply seeing seeing the beginning of that right now. Just like Greece. A nation living on the free lunch will eventually fiscally collapse. Borrowing another 2 or 3 trillion (!!!) just to get through the next 1.5 yrs (!!!) is simply delaying the inevitable and making the future even more painful. We are condemning our future generations to MISERY. Say it out loud 1,000 times: It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. It's the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING.....X 37.037037037037037037037

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

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!

There Is No Free Lunch

I'll never forget a certain 6th grade social sciences teacher who taught us that some people were good at growing corn while others were good at raising cattle and by trading corn for cattle each of their lives were improved and their standards of living rose and that this was called capitalism. Because trading corn for cows was cumbersome, they invented money which represented the mutually agreed-upon fair trade value of their labor. At that time my Memorial Elementary School and the Euclid, Ohio community and public school system was pumping out top-notch and productive members of society by the thousands but we didn't think of it as such. We were just ordinary middle class people doing what ordinary middle class people did at that time- Rise to the best of our abilities. This process of rising to the best of your abilities, repeated a billion times a day across our nations towns, cities, states, and regions is literally what built our nation and gave us the high standard of living, quality of life, and comfort that we enjoy today. In retrospect, a school system and community like that in today's America can only be found in exclusive pockets and at great expense. Today's Euclid school system and community, like so many across the nation, has radically changed. Its predominantly gangsta thug males and single teen moms learn, in the rare moments when they do make some efforts at learning, the common theme found across today's U.S. that the hard working guy making a good living is keeping you down and the government owes you both essential services and a living. They are taught socialism. So with the power of money and capitalism comes the danger of democratic socialism- the idea that you can vote yourself somebody else's money and thereby vote yourself their *labor* effectively reserecting that millenia old scourge of direct slavery in its modern indirect variant. 

The followers of Barrack Obama and the democratic party in general, plus our now hooked on entitlements middle-class are not being taught the incessant warnings of the late great economist Milton Friedman- "There is no free lunch!" This time around the disease is so ingrained and the government programs and spending are so numerous and huge with so many helpless dependents voting for their survival that another Ronald Reagan may not ever get enough votes to save us. In contrast to America's rise up, the vote yourself somebody else's money so you can have what they have *without working for it*, repeated a billion times a day across our nations towns, cities, states, and regions is literally destroying our nation and will soon melt away our high standard of living, quality of life, and comfort that we enjoy today. Barrack Obama's socialism and his democratic party's socialism is robbing us of our precious God-given and inalienable human and economic freedoms as it plunges us down its certain tunnel of darkness. And when our military is gone, cashiered because people don't want to pay for a $120 doctor visit twice a year, the entire remaining free world will go down the tunnel of darkness too as the world's currently restrained tyrannical enemies of democracy suddenly find themselves unopposed and unrestrained. Many formerly free people all across the world will rediscover real injustice and real misery which was commonplace a mere 100 years ago. This is quite a price to pay for socialism's intoxicating elixir of greed which whispers into the air "somebody else can feed, clothe, house, and pay you free money too". As Greece burns, an all engines stopped Europe decays, creaks and groans, the Soviet Union sits under its tombstone, Cubans suffer, and North Koreans starve while taking bullets in their backs to escape, it is clear the Cold War is far from over and in fact it appears the wrong side is decisively winning by convincing so many millions that its evil does not exist.

Herman Cain: Barack Obama is not a Patriot

Herman Cain: Barack Obama is not a Patriot

DJ Barack Rock

Atlas is Shrugging

Rand’s iconic novel provides striking parallels to today’s political rhetoric. Watch the video and take the quiz – can you tell which is fact and which is fiction?

Atlas is Shrugging

Trade In Time