ObamaNation to “Lean Forward” into Dependency, Poverty
February 4, 2013 Leave a comment
Zerohedge has the article: Subsidy Addiction: Job vs. Foodstamps
Running On Empty
April 22, 2012 Leave a comment
No, I am not talking about Obama’s campaign war chest. The “class warrior” who recently made a jab at Mitt Romney with a silver spoon reference regularly charges “regular folks $1000 for a handshake at fundraisers” (see the Sunday April 22, 2012 Chicago Tribune column by John Kass linked in blue below). Class warfare depends on the treasure of the rich in so many ways!
From Kass’s Sunday Trib column, Obama Ladles Up Hot Bowls of Class Warfare:
And, Obama is of the people, so please forget that presidential media guru David Axelrod just dropped $1.7 million on a gorgeous Chicago condo.
In America, only snobs and fools look down upon someone born poor. It’s un-American. But if your father’s poverty isn’t your fault, then, why should your father’s wealth be a sin?
The opportunity to seek wealth is why our people (Kass is Greek) came here, why they left their villages overseas to ride in steerage, seasick, eating black bread and spooning out the stew with wooden spoons, just on the chance that their grandchildren might hold a silver spoon someday…
Romney, of course, took great umbrage at Obama’s silver spoon crack, saying it was aimed at his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, a former president of American Motors.
“The president likes to attack fellow Americans,” said Romney on Fox News. “He’s always looking for a scapegoat, particularly (those who) have been successful like my dad, and I’m not going to rise to that.”
I find both of them flawed. Romney as the ring bearer for all that’s wrong with the corporatist Republican smothering of the conservative spirit, Obama as the keeper of the federal leviathan, feeding it as it grows larger, squeezing the life out of entrepreneurship.”
There are two kinds of politicians: those without personal wealth, and those with personal wealth. Those with money don’t need politics to make more. Those without money need friends as they climb the ladder of public service.”
Michelle Obama had such friends…
And the President had such friends. One is named Tony Rezko. He’s rotting in a federal prison, although it was Rezko and his wife who put together the strange deal that helped Barack and Michelle buy their dream house in Kenwood that they never seem to visit anymore.
In prison, Tony Rezko doesn’t use a silver spoon. He uses a plastic fork.”
Obama, via his constant “fair share” campaign speeches, relates opportunity directly to having money and not to liberty and self-determination. How strange and how short-sighted this is.
What Obama is really telling inner-city people is that they are not going to make it, they will not have opportunity until and unless they other people’s money in their pockets. This is “in your face” class warfare, blatant materialism and an obvious trashing of the human spirit.
Underlying Johnny-one-note-Obama’s fair share speeches is the same inane logic of the Left: if someone has more that means that there must be less for you. But, life is not a zero-sum proposition. Everyone can benefit from hard work and self-determination and not just those who already have done so and have earned money.
It is those on the Left who spend all of their time trying to slice the current pie into exactly equal “fair share” pieces. It is those on the Right who want to make a bigger pie so that everyone can have a big slice of it and can eat it in peace, free from the tyranny of big government.
Obama’s implied message: Forget contentment, you must have what others have or you are missing out, otherwise your treasure chest is empty.
Now with White House silverware in hand, Obama spoons out the parasite-laden bread pudding of class warfare to those standing in the food lines willing to pay a $1000.00 a plate. He lectures to those anxious for any crumbs that may fall from the table of the Dear Leader and to those of the liberal media anxiously waiting another feeding frenzy.
I ask God for my daily bread and He provides.
No News Here: Friday the Thirteenth, 2012 Edition
April 13, 2012 Leave a comment
US education failure poses a national threat: Wow! And just think what the failing US education system (thanks to the teacher’s union, its lobby and liberal universities) does for the election process: A lack of critical thinking which leads to populist voting which in turn leads to stage one laws being enacted which in turn leads to bureaucracy which in turn leads to totalitarianism (in a nutshell). (Leads to totalitarianism because people will be too stupid to know any better and they will have given up all of their freedom to the intellectual elite contingent that has been anxiously waiting for that day when you say “I can’t do this anymore.”
Diversity looks a lot like the North Korean Supreme People’s Assembly: Liberal colleges and universities are cranking out Obamatons with their eager beaver looks and stunning lack of critical thinking. Do they have Che and COEXIST stickers on their bumpers?
Activist Judges are not Inactive: Ruth Bader Ginsberg Associate Justice of SCOTUS fame during one of her “teaching moments” at an “Arab Spring” conference: “I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”
This in spite of the fact that our Constitution has been the template that has supported her free range blather all of her life. Now, instead of fidelity to the U.S. Constitution, RBG prefers a constitution based on International Law (basically, One World humanism administered by ad hoc panels made up of hand-wringing liberals).
Like Obama and the Dems, RBG is on a much higher humanitarian plane than the rest of us crass peons. She’s at altitudes where there is little or no oxygen.
The franchised system of bureaucracy known as Obamacare will cost a lot more than expected: Also, did you know that with Obamacare coverage will be mandated but care will not? You didn’t? Well, you know that according to Nancy Pelosi, another high-flying Democrat, “We needed to pass the bill to find out what was in it.” 
Not the Scooby-Doo ending: Voting for Democrats is voting for the decline of America and the rise of totalitarianism and the likes of the Supreme People’s Party and its chief Defense Minister, Fear.
better yet,
Voting for Democrats is like shooting yourself in the right foot and then shooting yourself in the left foot just to be sure you’re being fair.
Fuzzy Logic has more No News Here: <<<
Runaway Slave – C.L. Bryant, Tea Party Member
March 17, 2012 Leave a comment
The previous post showed a Wisconsin Democrat and union boss who has been cyber stalking a Wisconsin State Senator. He called her “a pig”, in fact.
This post reveals an African-American Tea Party member who ran away from the Democrat’s Party’s Plantation politics: C.L. Bryant.
Keep in mind that the main stream media (practically every TV/cable media outlet other than Fox news) will depict and propagandize Tea Party members as being racist.
Cyberstalking a Woman Wisconsin State Senator
March 17, 2012 Leave a comment
Because liberals, the Left, Progressives and Democrats have nothing constructive to offer they resort to name calling, ad hominems and distortion. The denigrating of people’s character, in fact, is used to get themselves elected – they get others to believe and respond to their inflammatory rhetoric. And this is exactly why Obama is in the White House (via the dirty politics of Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod). As everyone knows, Obama was not elected because of a political record or because of experience. He was elected because of intimidation politics played out Chicago Style.
This way of politics can also be found in the state of Wisconsin which borders Illinois.
One example of dirty politics used by the Democrats (and there are many such examples) from the Badger Pundit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HjiQwTTOo&feature=player_embedded
Minimum Wage Or The Price We Pay For Stupid
February 4, 2012 Leave a comment
I have noticed a definite pattern emerging ever since before the 2008 election of BHO: many voters have given up thinking and have decided to vote for the popular shills of humanism, otherwise known as the educated elite.
BHO, the POTUS, is surrounded by Harvard grads, each of whom has been steeped in liberal mores taught by educators who have risen to the level of their incompetence (the Peter Principle). I like what Tomas Sowell, economist, said about these professors:
“Too often what are called “educated” people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.”[1]
And, Walter E. Williams:
“People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What’s more, they believe they’ve been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.”
In my estimation the American voter, though often degreed, has become less educated and intellectually apathetic. This voter has become a stage-one thinker – someone who finds some humanist value in a policy, votes for the person promoting it and doesn’t want to think any further about it, believing that they have done their good deed for the day. Yet, the policy does not operate in isolation and, typically, havoc and damage control ensues when the policy is implemented. Our nation is left ever more crippled. The Minimum Wage Law (MWL) is one prime example of this stage one thinking implemented and voted for by people who let others do their thinking.
Thomas Sowell in his excellent book the Thomas Sowell Reader, a compendium of his many newspaper articles and essays, wrote an article titled Minimum Wage Laws. Here are some of his thoughts from that article to ponder deeply before the next election:
“By the simplest and most basic economics, a price artificially raised tends to cause more to be supplied and less to be demanded than when process are left to be determined by supply and demand in a free market.”[2]
“The unemployed are made idle by wage rates artificially set above the level of their productivity. Those who are idled in their youth are of course delayed in acquiring the job skills and experience which could make them more productive – therefore higher earner – later on.”[3]
“Although most industrial societies have minimum wage laws, not all do. Switzerland and Hong Kong have been among the exceptions – and both have had very low unemployment rates.”[4]
“Higher costs for a given quantity and quality of labor tend to produce less employment, just as higher prices for other things tend to produce fewer sales. Moreover, higher costs in the form of mandated benefits have the same economic effect as higher costs in the form of minimum wage laws. The explicit minimum wage rate understates the labor costs imposed by European governments, which also mandates various employer contributions to pension plans and health benefits, among other things. Europe’s unemployment rates shot up when such government-mandated benefits to be for by employers grew sharply during the 1980 and 1990s.”[5]
Average hourly compensation in Europe of manufacturing employees in the European Union countries in general is higher than in the United States or Japan. So is unemployment.”[6]
“Labor unions also benefit from minimum wage laws, are among the strongest proponents of such laws, even though their members typically make much more than minimum wage rate.”[7]
“Just as businesses seek to have government impose tariffs on imported goods that compete with their products, so labor unions use minimum wage laws as tariffs to force up the price of non-union labor that competes with their members for jobs.”[8]
“…when all is said and done, most empirical studies indicate that minimum wage laws reduce employment in general, and especially the employment of younger less skilled, and minority workers.”[9] (emphasis mine)
Thomas Sowell’s article is chock full of empirical information and common sense economics. I could continue to quote many of his insightful words. I’ll provide one more series of quotes about minorities and the implementation of MWLs the past century:
“Again, it is necessary to note how price is a factor even in racial discrimination…It was only after a series of minimum wage escalations began that black male teenage unemployment not only skyrocketed but became more than double the unemployment rates among white male teenagers.”[10] (emphasis mine)
Stage-one voting creates unemployment. Obama, the educated One, Jesse Jackson and the Congressional Black Caucus should know the facts. But in ignoring the economic data they choose “navel-gazing, hand-wringing or self-dramatization” to preach a Liberal Utopia that will never arrive on this earth. MWLs produce the opposite effect, in fact!
Don’t ignore the data. Read. Understand. Think beyond stage-one. Uncle Sam needs You more than ever.
Again, Thomas Sowell:
“People who cannot be bothered to learn both sides of the issues should not bother to vote.”[11]
[1] Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader, p. 401
[2] Ibid., p. 108
[3] Ibid., p. 108
[4] Ibid., p. 109
[5] Ibid.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Ibid., p.110
[8] Ibid.
[9] Ibid., p.111
[10] Ibid., p. 115 & 117
[11] Ibid., p.397
Note: Mitt Romney has come out in favor of auto-increasing the MWL. I am voting Newt Gingrich in the Illinois GOP primary.
Update: In a 02/07/2012 RCP article regarding Mitt Romney’s faux conservatism, Thomas Sowell said:
“Nor are such consequences of minimum wage laws peculiar to blacks or to the United States. In Western European countries whose social policies liberals consider more “advanced” than our own, including more generous minimum wage laws and other employer-mandated benefits, it has been common in even prosperous years for unemployment rates among young people to be 20 percent or higher.
The economic reason is not complicated. When you set minimum wage levels higher than many inexperienced young people are worth, they don’t get hired. It is not rocket science.
Milton Friedman explained all this, half a century ago, in his popular little book for non-economists, “Capitalism and Freedom.” So have many other people. If a presidential candidate who calls himself “conservative” has still not heard of these facts, that simply shows that you can call yourself anything you want to. “
Thoughts from Uncle Miltie:
Cindy Wity 
The Lord of Ism’s Prayer
July 22, 2012 Leave a comment
Our Obama which art in the White House
Wallowed be thy fame.
Thy -ism come,
Thy will be done nationally
As it is in North Korea.
Give us this day our daily ration.
And forgive us our liberty,
As we forgive those who use their liberty to pay their own way.
And lead us not into the debt-free living,
But deliver us from clarity
For thine is the government, the IRS and the media
For as long as we vote.
Ahem.
© Sally Paradise, 2012, All Rights Reserved
Here is an interesting statement from Chairman Mao, April 30, 1971:
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/harris/1973/02/sincelin.htm
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