By William L. Garvin
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana
During my college years in the early Sixties, they actually taught American history. In fact, they even held a “Bill of Rights Week” on campus. (Liberal mobs would be howling at the moon and trashing everything in sight if that was to occur today!) I vividly remember one outstanding speaker who spoke eloquently on the dangers of Communism and the threat it represented to our Constitution, those first critical amendments, and our Republic. Afterwards, I was fortunate enough to meet and shake hands with him. Little did I know that he would go on to become not only the thirty-third Governor of California but also the fortieth President of the United States. Of course, that man was Ronald W. Reagan.
At about the same time, Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, a retired FBI agent, was teaching a college course and subsequently wrote a book entitled THE NAKED COMMUNIST. In it, he painstakingly documents the origination and evolution of that movement as well as the tactics and strategies their leaders employed. One can easily see Socialism as the “Gateway Drug” for Communism. Since radicals have become so sensitive to the Socialist moniker, they have relabeled themselves as “Progressives.” Whatever the neo-Socialist name, the game will still smell the same! Ultimately they are looking for State domination, control, or ownership of all means of production and distribution.
Dr. Skousen noted that at the end of the Korean Conflict, a timetable for conquest that had been set out by Communist leaders had been captured. This was read into the Congressional Record by Senator William Knowland on April 29, 1954 (page 5708). The overarching Communist strategy was to take Asia, then Africa, next Europe, and finally America. An essential tactic in this game plan was to isolate the United States by all possible means. If that tactic was successful, then Canada and South America would be in a hopelessly defensive position. When one looks at the anti-US votes in the United Nations and the anti-democratic forces in South America, there may only be a minor error in the Communist sequencing. What is truly frightening in its relevance to today is Skousen’s quote on page 257: “As for the United States, ‘crushing economic collapse and industrial breakdown will follow the European crisis.’” Is this where we are? Is this the fulmination of a long standing game plan?
There were also forty-five specific Communist goals that were listed. Number 3 is “Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.” Number 7 is “Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the UN.” Number 11 is “Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.” In addition to gaining control of one or both political parties, infiltrating schools, courts and media, number 27 is “Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.” Number 25 set the stage for this with “Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.”
Obviously, the founding fathers, the Constitution, and traditional American values must all be discredited. Furthermore, Number 40 is “Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.” while 41 says “Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.”
Attack dogs from the radical left continue to tarnish Skousen’s work with their usual name calling. It’s fantasy, far-fetched, archaic or he’s a conspiracy nut. Generally, that is to protect themselves for being exposed as the self-serving Statists that they really are. They don’t debate the facts or the current, curious cultural parallels. Is it just coincidence? I suggest that you maintain a state of intellectual awareness just in case it isn’t. As the brilliant Thomas Jefferson warned: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Chaos, Crises, Armageddon and Other Political Contrivances
By William L. Garvin
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure….Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit." Senator Barack H. Obama, 2006
Once again we have proof positive that the Emperor has no clothes. If he is ever to acquire some, they will have to be completely reversible! Isn't it amazing how easily our President changes positions? In 2006, he used his dulcet tones to argue his "principled opposition" to raising the debt limit for President Bush to $9 trillion. But that was then and this is now. To this President, adding another two or three trillion dollars to the staggering $14.3 trillion debt is no longer because of "bad choices" or bound to break the backs of coming generations or a "failure of leadership."
There is no question that the President's economic program has been a failure by every objective measure. The "misery index" is at its highest point ever. Despite massive socialist-style government spending, unemployment is up; inflation is up (despite Bernanke's deceitful redefinition); the number of people on food stamps is at an all time high; foreclosures are at frightening levels while housing and consumer confidence is in the toilet. It is insane to continue down this path of abject economic failure but in his obsessive quest to "redistribute the wealth", that's exactly what he intends to do. Just say no!
However, the current debt limit imbroglio has served to shatter some popular myths. First, the President is not "cool" and "temperamentally suited" for the presidency. He has shown himself to be petty, petulant, pouty, pompous and predictable. He says everything is on the table and has theoretically proposed $4 trillion dollars in cuts, but as of this writing he has not identified a single specific program cut! Not one! How about ObamaCare? Most Americans want it repealed and we could save a trillion dollars! How about reducing your bloated federal workforce just as state and local governments have done in order to balance their budgets? How about rescinding all those massive pay raises you gave to White House staffers?
The President also effectively destroyed the Social Security Trust Fund myth. Since he could not guarantee that Social Security checks would go out, there is no "lock box"; there is no "trust" fund. The $2.6 trillion in Social Security assets have been hijacked and diverted to other government programs. However, his statement also revealed where his priorities lie. His Senate puppet, Harry Reid, tweeted: "If we don't reach agreement, it could mean no Social Security checks, no paychks for troops, no schools for our children." Monthly interest on our debt is $29 billion. Social Security costs $49.2 billion. The feds only provide $11 billion in educational funds and our active duty military costs $2.9 billion for a total of $92.1 billion per month. The government receives nearly $200 billion in revenue each month. Do the math! There is more than enough money to avoid default UNLESS THE PRESIDENT CHOOSES NOT TO! Also keep in mind that August 2d is about the sixth or seventh mythical "deadline" that Tiny Timmie Geithner has invented.
To distract from their failures, Democrats resort to the predictable and reprehensible scare tactics. Democrats took $500 billion out of Medicare to pay for ObamaCare then lie that it is Republicans who are trying to destroy the program. Again, it's not surprising that the President would throw seniors under the bus. After all, this is the same President, the Commander in Chief, who would not guarantee that our troops would be paid during budget negotiations earlier this year. That was a shameful moment in American history. Not only has our erstwhile emperor revealed that he has no clothes but he has also revealed that he has no core principles. He will try to destroy anyone who does not bow to his narcissistic will.
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure….Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit." Senator Barack H. Obama, 2006
Once again we have proof positive that the Emperor has no clothes. If he is ever to acquire some, they will have to be completely reversible! Isn't it amazing how easily our President changes positions? In 2006, he used his dulcet tones to argue his "principled opposition" to raising the debt limit for President Bush to $9 trillion. But that was then and this is now. To this President, adding another two or three trillion dollars to the staggering $14.3 trillion debt is no longer because of "bad choices" or bound to break the backs of coming generations or a "failure of leadership."
There is no question that the President's economic program has been a failure by every objective measure. The "misery index" is at its highest point ever. Despite massive socialist-style government spending, unemployment is up; inflation is up (despite Bernanke's deceitful redefinition); the number of people on food stamps is at an all time high; foreclosures are at frightening levels while housing and consumer confidence is in the toilet. It is insane to continue down this path of abject economic failure but in his obsessive quest to "redistribute the wealth", that's exactly what he intends to do. Just say no!
However, the current debt limit imbroglio has served to shatter some popular myths. First, the President is not "cool" and "temperamentally suited" for the presidency. He has shown himself to be petty, petulant, pouty, pompous and predictable. He says everything is on the table and has theoretically proposed $4 trillion dollars in cuts, but as of this writing he has not identified a single specific program cut! Not one! How about ObamaCare? Most Americans want it repealed and we could save a trillion dollars! How about reducing your bloated federal workforce just as state and local governments have done in order to balance their budgets? How about rescinding all those massive pay raises you gave to White House staffers?
The President also effectively destroyed the Social Security Trust Fund myth. Since he could not guarantee that Social Security checks would go out, there is no "lock box"; there is no "trust" fund. The $2.6 trillion in Social Security assets have been hijacked and diverted to other government programs. However, his statement also revealed where his priorities lie. His Senate puppet, Harry Reid, tweeted: "If we don't reach agreement, it could mean no Social Security checks, no paychks for troops, no schools for our children." Monthly interest on our debt is $29 billion. Social Security costs $49.2 billion. The feds only provide $11 billion in educational funds and our active duty military costs $2.9 billion for a total of $92.1 billion per month. The government receives nearly $200 billion in revenue each month. Do the math! There is more than enough money to avoid default UNLESS THE PRESIDENT CHOOSES NOT TO! Also keep in mind that August 2d is about the sixth or seventh mythical "deadline" that Tiny Timmie Geithner has invented.
To distract from their failures, Democrats resort to the predictable and reprehensible scare tactics. Democrats took $500 billion out of Medicare to pay for ObamaCare then lie that it is Republicans who are trying to destroy the program. Again, it's not surprising that the President would throw seniors under the bus. After all, this is the same President, the Commander in Chief, who would not guarantee that our troops would be paid during budget negotiations earlier this year. That was a shameful moment in American history. Not only has our erstwhile emperor revealed that he has no clothes but he has also revealed that he has no core principles. He will try to destroy anyone who does not bow to his narcissistic will.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Double Talk and Double Standards
By William L. Garvin
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
It’s been rumored that if liberals didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all. This is particularly true for the radical and progressive wings of the Democrat party that practice Alinsky’s RULES FOR RADICALS. To quote from their playbook: “In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.” Principles are non-existent, everyone and everything is expendable, facts are the enemy, and truth is irrelevant. Let’s not forget that our current President taught Alinsky tactics as a community organizer.
Accordingly, it is impossible for rational people to believe that President Obama has any real concern about the national debt. After all, it is he and his economic policies that have irresponsibly added $4 trillion dollars to the total in less than three years! It comes directly from the Alinsky game plan for him to now parade and preen as a deficit hawk. It is pure propaganda. Obama and his press mouthpiece Harry Reid says they have proposed “debt reduction measures of $3 trillion or even $4 trillion.” Propaganda is too nice a word; it is pure poppycock. Their plan does not exist. Nobody’s seen it. It is no more substantial than the Prez’s budget plan which was rejected by a 97-0 Senate vote. That leaves them with Alinsky Rule 13 to fall back on: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. That’s why they have embarked on their scorched earth tactics of “Mediscare” and demagoguing Republicans. Since the Democrats have no idea how to save Medicare or Social Security and choose to ignore the fact that they are going broke, all they can do is try to vilify the opposition.
In their hatred for the successful and accomplished, all liberals do is repeat their class warfare and mantra of “tax the rich.” Tax increases and increased unemployment will both damage the economy but that is one good way to “redistribute the wealth” and build government dependency. That goes in tandem with their current practice of economic “strangulation by regulation.” It’s no wonder that 70% of small businesses say they will be unable to hire anyone new for the next year!
On a micro level, our local Palin Derangement Syndrome sufferer continues to flail wildly below the belt when it comes to all things Palin. After noting his parental angst with his nineteen year old daughter taking her first plane flight by herself, he viciously assaults another man’s twenty year old daughter for having written a book. Maybe she was just following the example of our President who wrote two memoirs before having accomplished anything of substance. In any event, he even got the price of Bristol Palin’s book wrong (it’s $15.11 at Barnes and Noble) and then advocates a boycott. Next he will be burning books along with the kook preacher in Florida. That’s how liberals practice freedom of speech.
Continuing his erroneous but polarizing path, he tries to mock and demean Bristol in every way imaginable. This is the print version of cyber bullying. One can only hope that no doppelganger loon out there decides to make his daughter the target of similar defamation and invective. There was a time when decency prevailed and children of political figures were off limits. One can also surmise that this sort of keyboard bravery would not be on display if Todd Palin was in close proximity.
The remainder of his oxymoronic PDS rant is against “Mama Bear” Palin. (For the record, it’s “Mama Grizzly.”) He’s upset that the press continues to scrutinize her every move and pleads for them to ignore her. They can’t! In reality, they are addicted to her and just can’t help themselves. Neither can he. They will continue to cover her, continue to misstate the truth, continue to make things up and continue to polarize. They are moths being drawn closer and closer to the flame with the same inevitable results. Poof!
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
It’s been rumored that if liberals didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all. This is particularly true for the radical and progressive wings of the Democrat party that practice Alinsky’s RULES FOR RADICALS. To quote from their playbook: “In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.” Principles are non-existent, everyone and everything is expendable, facts are the enemy, and truth is irrelevant. Let’s not forget that our current President taught Alinsky tactics as a community organizer.
Accordingly, it is impossible for rational people to believe that President Obama has any real concern about the national debt. After all, it is he and his economic policies that have irresponsibly added $4 trillion dollars to the total in less than three years! It comes directly from the Alinsky game plan for him to now parade and preen as a deficit hawk. It is pure propaganda. Obama and his press mouthpiece Harry Reid says they have proposed “debt reduction measures of $3 trillion or even $4 trillion.” Propaganda is too nice a word; it is pure poppycock. Their plan does not exist. Nobody’s seen it. It is no more substantial than the Prez’s budget plan which was rejected by a 97-0 Senate vote. That leaves them with Alinsky Rule 13 to fall back on: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. That’s why they have embarked on their scorched earth tactics of “Mediscare” and demagoguing Republicans. Since the Democrats have no idea how to save Medicare or Social Security and choose to ignore the fact that they are going broke, all they can do is try to vilify the opposition.
In their hatred for the successful and accomplished, all liberals do is repeat their class warfare and mantra of “tax the rich.” Tax increases and increased unemployment will both damage the economy but that is one good way to “redistribute the wealth” and build government dependency. That goes in tandem with their current practice of economic “strangulation by regulation.” It’s no wonder that 70% of small businesses say they will be unable to hire anyone new for the next year!
On a micro level, our local Palin Derangement Syndrome sufferer continues to flail wildly below the belt when it comes to all things Palin. After noting his parental angst with his nineteen year old daughter taking her first plane flight by herself, he viciously assaults another man’s twenty year old daughter for having written a book. Maybe she was just following the example of our President who wrote two memoirs before having accomplished anything of substance. In any event, he even got the price of Bristol Palin’s book wrong (it’s $15.11 at Barnes and Noble) and then advocates a boycott. Next he will be burning books along with the kook preacher in Florida. That’s how liberals practice freedom of speech.
Continuing his erroneous but polarizing path, he tries to mock and demean Bristol in every way imaginable. This is the print version of cyber bullying. One can only hope that no doppelganger loon out there decides to make his daughter the target of similar defamation and invective. There was a time when decency prevailed and children of political figures were off limits. One can also surmise that this sort of keyboard bravery would not be on display if Todd Palin was in close proximity.
The remainder of his oxymoronic PDS rant is against “Mama Bear” Palin. (For the record, it’s “Mama Grizzly.”) He’s upset that the press continues to scrutinize her every move and pleads for them to ignore her. They can’t! In reality, they are addicted to her and just can’t help themselves. Neither can he. They will continue to cover her, continue to misstate the truth, continue to make things up and continue to polarize. They are moths being drawn closer and closer to the flame with the same inevitable results. Poof!
Monday, July 4, 2011
Freedom in Peril
By William L. Garvin
Having just celebrated our 235th year of American independence, we would be well advised to keep in mind the admonition attributed to Thomas Jefferson that “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” A quick scan of our societal landscape shows that “we the people” are in danger of losing freedoms on many fronts.
We can start with a President who believes that even though he has ordered our troops to fly hundreds of sorties, dropping thousands of bombs that are killing and wounding untold numbers of Libyans, we are not engaged in “hostilities” and he need not confer or receive the approval of Congress. We have a Vice-President who basically threatens unions with his “if you vote Republican, don’t come running to me, you’re on your own, Jack” speech. Just where did he learn that type of basic Chicago thuggery? What happened to old fashioned bribery? Oh yes, it was all in the stimulus bill.
Then there are the Wisconsin unions stooping to new lows by disrupting the Special Olympics ceremonies. Talk about sore losers! Similarly, the leaders of teacher unions have already admitted that it has nothing to do with the kids; it’s totally about union power. As a result, the educational system resembles just another liberal arm of the Democrat party. When a recent study showed that liberals outnumbered conservative professors by a 7 to 1 ratio, you can be assured that very few conservatives will be granted tenure by their leftist counterparts.
Another frightening indictment of our higher educational institutions is their continuing assault on freedom of speech. On many occasions, if a conservative speaker such as Ward Connerly, Ann Coulter, or David Horowitz enters into the “free exchange of ideas” arena that is supposed to characterize our universities and colleges, they are shouted down and prohibited from discussing their points of view by liberal mobs. No such obstacles face liberal or radical speakers. Some universities even attempt to impose additional security fees for “controversial” conservative speakers that they do not charge radicals such as Van Jones, an admitted communist, or any of the advocates for the progressive cause. As usual, the courts strike down these blatant attempts to stifle free speech. Still it is no wonder that more and more people are wondering if the process is one of education or if it is more akin to indoctrination.
To make matters worse, citizens can no longer rely on the media to keep them informed. It has been said that freedom of the press exists only if you own one. The watchdog status they enjoy resembles a pit bull during a Republican administration but is nothing more than a whimpering puppy wetting itself in the corner during the Obama administration. Every gaffe is minimized. Every mistake is forgiven. Every flip flop and reversal is ignored. Every hideous policy failure is glossed over while every tone deaf word, speech, or action is beatified! He carpetbags around the country at taxpayers’ expense raising money for his reelection but then complains about CEO’s using corporate jets. First, maybe you should set the example by cutting back on your lavish entourage that was so cuttingly mocked by the Brits on your recent trip to England. Secondly, maybe you shouldn’t have signed the bill that authorized this tax deduction last year! I suppose you can always blame it on a conspiracy between your teleprompter and your autopen. You’ve already blamed everyone else.
Though he invited Paul Ryan to his speech, sat him in the front row, and then churlishly and publicly berated him, he is still portrayed as a “nice guy.” When he lied about the Ryan plan preventing children with asthma or Down Syndrome from getting medical treatment, he was not challenged. When he said Republicans wanted to “pull the plug on grandma,” no one asked him to explain why the Independent Medical Advisory Board he created under ObamaCare was going to do the same thing. Approaching criminal neglect, the press failed to ask if cutting $500 billion from Medicare to finance ObamaCare wouldn’t of necessity also do exactly the same thing. Methinks the President doth protest too much and accomplish too little!
Having just celebrated our 235th year of American independence, we would be well advised to keep in mind the admonition attributed to Thomas Jefferson that “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” A quick scan of our societal landscape shows that “we the people” are in danger of losing freedoms on many fronts.
We can start with a President who believes that even though he has ordered our troops to fly hundreds of sorties, dropping thousands of bombs that are killing and wounding untold numbers of Libyans, we are not engaged in “hostilities” and he need not confer or receive the approval of Congress. We have a Vice-President who basically threatens unions with his “if you vote Republican, don’t come running to me, you’re on your own, Jack” speech. Just where did he learn that type of basic Chicago thuggery? What happened to old fashioned bribery? Oh yes, it was all in the stimulus bill.
Then there are the Wisconsin unions stooping to new lows by disrupting the Special Olympics ceremonies. Talk about sore losers! Similarly, the leaders of teacher unions have already admitted that it has nothing to do with the kids; it’s totally about union power. As a result, the educational system resembles just another liberal arm of the Democrat party. When a recent study showed that liberals outnumbered conservative professors by a 7 to 1 ratio, you can be assured that very few conservatives will be granted tenure by their leftist counterparts.
Another frightening indictment of our higher educational institutions is their continuing assault on freedom of speech. On many occasions, if a conservative speaker such as Ward Connerly, Ann Coulter, or David Horowitz enters into the “free exchange of ideas” arena that is supposed to characterize our universities and colleges, they are shouted down and prohibited from discussing their points of view by liberal mobs. No such obstacles face liberal or radical speakers. Some universities even attempt to impose additional security fees for “controversial” conservative speakers that they do not charge radicals such as Van Jones, an admitted communist, or any of the advocates for the progressive cause. As usual, the courts strike down these blatant attempts to stifle free speech. Still it is no wonder that more and more people are wondering if the process is one of education or if it is more akin to indoctrination.
To make matters worse, citizens can no longer rely on the media to keep them informed. It has been said that freedom of the press exists only if you own one. The watchdog status they enjoy resembles a pit bull during a Republican administration but is nothing more than a whimpering puppy wetting itself in the corner during the Obama administration. Every gaffe is minimized. Every mistake is forgiven. Every flip flop and reversal is ignored. Every hideous policy failure is glossed over while every tone deaf word, speech, or action is beatified! He carpetbags around the country at taxpayers’ expense raising money for his reelection but then complains about CEO’s using corporate jets. First, maybe you should set the example by cutting back on your lavish entourage that was so cuttingly mocked by the Brits on your recent trip to England. Secondly, maybe you shouldn’t have signed the bill that authorized this tax deduction last year! I suppose you can always blame it on a conspiracy between your teleprompter and your autopen. You’ve already blamed everyone else.
Though he invited Paul Ryan to his speech, sat him in the front row, and then churlishly and publicly berated him, he is still portrayed as a “nice guy.” When he lied about the Ryan plan preventing children with asthma or Down Syndrome from getting medical treatment, he was not challenged. When he said Republicans wanted to “pull the plug on grandma,” no one asked him to explain why the Independent Medical Advisory Board he created under ObamaCare was going to do the same thing. Approaching criminal neglect, the press failed to ask if cutting $500 billion from Medicare to finance ObamaCare wouldn’t of necessity also do exactly the same thing. Methinks the President doth protest too much and accomplish too little!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Lengthy Lapses in Liberal Logic
By William L. Garvin
It is hard to determine if all the holes in what passes as liberal logic are because of selective amnesia, two-faced hypocrisy, or bald-faced lying. Evidence seems to support the latter. Lately, libs are spouting that Republicans are deliberately sabotaging the economy for political reasons. This flies in the face of the ubiquitous democrat propaganda piece that the GOP is controlled by Big Business, specifically Big Oil. It also conveniently ignores the 60-70 “fat cat” Big Business donors that spent $38,000 apiece to have dinner with the Prez. It ignores all the contributions that Goldman Sachs made to Dems and more to President Obama than any other individual. Many other Big Businesses have been equally supportive of this President…can I have an amen, General Electric and other Wall Street progressives?
If anything has sabotaged the economy, it is the 2,000 pages of ObamaCare and another 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank financial reform (sic) that will result in tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of pages of implementing regulations. Until the private sector finds out how badly they will be damaged by bureaucratic fiat and the President’s promise to raise taxes, they are going to hunker down and keep their powder dry. For example, coal-fired plants produce about fifty percent of America’s electricity. It is estimated that electricity costs will increase about 60% as new regulations force old plants to close and make it prohibitively expensive to open new plants. Cap and trade may not have passed but the cap and destroy bureaucracy is already in place.
When libs complain about “corporate welfare” and outsourcing, they conveniently ignore the fact that the heavily subsidized Government Motors now has four plants in Mexico and has invested over $5 billion in the last five years to employ Mexican workers and expand Mexican manufacturing capacity. At the same time, this union label Administration is doing everything it can to stifle the opening of Boeing’s new billion dollar plant in South Carolina that would employ two thousand American workers! There’s your illogical liberal logic at work.
Liberals also forget about the corporate welfare that is doled out to agribusiness, ethanol, solar and wind industries? What about the continual subsidizing of losing enterprises such as Amtrak and the Postal Service? Let’s not forget Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the real causes of the financial meltdown. The President says they will cost taxpayers another $130 billion but in reality, the tab will be closer to $317 billion! USA Today says the unfunded liability for the federal government is $61.6 trillion…where is the Democrat plan to deal with the shortages in Social Security, Medicare, and their government pensions? They have no plan and they don’t intend to produce one. Even though it’s irresponsible, it’s much easier to lie and distort the Republican positions. Practice has made perfect! It’s easier to ignore the International Monetary Fund’s warning that the U.S. is “flirting with disaster” even though their high-risk tactics may result in economic disaster! We’re one step behind Greece under this Administration with one major difference: no one is big enough to bail America out! The President should have been rolling up his sleeves and getting to work but apparently he has a hard time fitting leadership into his golf and fund raising schedule!
Speaking of fund raising, the Associated Press notes that President Obama has raised patronage to a new level. They reported that 80 percent of the “bundlers” who raised $500,000 or more for the Obama election ended up in “key administrative posts.” Take Donald Gips for example. After his successful fund raising, he took charge of hiring in the Obama White House. Subsequently, he was named Ambassador to South Africa. That part is marginally okay but then Level 3 Communications, Mr. Gips’ company, received $13.8 million in stimulus money from the taxpayer pocket. That definitely fails the smell test! Yes, Candidate Obama promised to eliminate special interest influence in the White House but he also promised to reduce the deficit by one-half in his first term. Say one thing and do the opposite…that’s liberal logic and it’s the only plan they have.
It is hard to determine if all the holes in what passes as liberal logic are because of selective amnesia, two-faced hypocrisy, or bald-faced lying. Evidence seems to support the latter. Lately, libs are spouting that Republicans are deliberately sabotaging the economy for political reasons. This flies in the face of the ubiquitous democrat propaganda piece that the GOP is controlled by Big Business, specifically Big Oil. It also conveniently ignores the 60-70 “fat cat” Big Business donors that spent $38,000 apiece to have dinner with the Prez. It ignores all the contributions that Goldman Sachs made to Dems and more to President Obama than any other individual. Many other Big Businesses have been equally supportive of this President…can I have an amen, General Electric and other Wall Street progressives?
If anything has sabotaged the economy, it is the 2,000 pages of ObamaCare and another 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank financial reform (sic) that will result in tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of pages of implementing regulations. Until the private sector finds out how badly they will be damaged by bureaucratic fiat and the President’s promise to raise taxes, they are going to hunker down and keep their powder dry. For example, coal-fired plants produce about fifty percent of America’s electricity. It is estimated that electricity costs will increase about 60% as new regulations force old plants to close and make it prohibitively expensive to open new plants. Cap and trade may not have passed but the cap and destroy bureaucracy is already in place.
When libs complain about “corporate welfare” and outsourcing, they conveniently ignore the fact that the heavily subsidized Government Motors now has four plants in Mexico and has invested over $5 billion in the last five years to employ Mexican workers and expand Mexican manufacturing capacity. At the same time, this union label Administration is doing everything it can to stifle the opening of Boeing’s new billion dollar plant in South Carolina that would employ two thousand American workers! There’s your illogical liberal logic at work.
Liberals also forget about the corporate welfare that is doled out to agribusiness, ethanol, solar and wind industries? What about the continual subsidizing of losing enterprises such as Amtrak and the Postal Service? Let’s not forget Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the real causes of the financial meltdown. The President says they will cost taxpayers another $130 billion but in reality, the tab will be closer to $317 billion! USA Today says the unfunded liability for the federal government is $61.6 trillion…where is the Democrat plan to deal with the shortages in Social Security, Medicare, and their government pensions? They have no plan and they don’t intend to produce one. Even though it’s irresponsible, it’s much easier to lie and distort the Republican positions. Practice has made perfect! It’s easier to ignore the International Monetary Fund’s warning that the U.S. is “flirting with disaster” even though their high-risk tactics may result in economic disaster! We’re one step behind Greece under this Administration with one major difference: no one is big enough to bail America out! The President should have been rolling up his sleeves and getting to work but apparently he has a hard time fitting leadership into his golf and fund raising schedule!
Speaking of fund raising, the Associated Press notes that President Obama has raised patronage to a new level. They reported that 80 percent of the “bundlers” who raised $500,000 or more for the Obama election ended up in “key administrative posts.” Take Donald Gips for example. After his successful fund raising, he took charge of hiring in the Obama White House. Subsequently, he was named Ambassador to South Africa. That part is marginally okay but then Level 3 Communications, Mr. Gips’ company, received $13.8 million in stimulus money from the taxpayer pocket. That definitely fails the smell test! Yes, Candidate Obama promised to eliminate special interest influence in the White House but he also promised to reduce the deficit by one-half in his first term. Say one thing and do the opposite…that’s liberal logic and it’s the only plan they have.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sarah Palin and the Piranha Press
By William L. Garvin
Back in 1986, the media took a massive clown pratfall. After much ballyhoo and hype, Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone’s safe and found…NOTHING! Recently, the main stream media exacerbated this ineptitude. The New York Times and the Washington Post managed to get the state of Alaska to release 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s emails. Yes, this is the same Sarah Palin that these “august” press icons had declared to be “irrelevant” and whose “political career was finished.” So exactly why was there a school of thirty-strong press piranha in Alaska and what did they find? Given that volume of information, with their flesh-eating press corps, with their enlisted army of “citizen readers”, surely the piranha feeding frenzy would find a smoking gun, a sinister cover-up, a shadow government, evidence of malfeasance and hopefully, criminal wrongdoing. In fact they found…NOTHING!
That is to say, they found nothing of substance to support their preconceived biases and further their vindictive assassination of all things Palin. What they did find was evidence of a very hands-on and knowledgeable Governor in Alaskan oil and gas policy and its relationship to United States energy independence. They found someone who was very interested in conservation and fish and game issues. They also found a hard working Governor who not only pursued ethics reform but took on a wide range of corruption in Alaskan politics including some in her own party. She was a tireless advocate for smaller, more efficient government and for second amendment rights despite a plethora of death threats against her. Of course this does not fit the destructive yarn they choose to fabricate so the piranhas were called home and the story was killed.
If Sarah Palin is truly irrelevant as the supposed intelligentsia and ruling class claim, why are they still suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome and why are they addicted to “every move she makes and every breath she takes”? Wasn’t it rather unseemly for the piranha press to act like predatory paparazzi as they followed her every step on her family’s bus tour along the east coast historical sites? Apparently they are incurably addicted and are nothing more than malevolent Palin-hating junkies of the worst order.
If she was a candidate for public office that would be one thing but it is hard to imagine that there is anything more to be learned about this totally transparent life given the last three years of microscopic analysis. Of course there is always the truth but don’t expect to find that in the main stream media.
Is it a question of priorities? The press could have covered the latest developments from the Strategic Arms Treaty that shows Russia has only 521 strategic launchers but START allows them 700; they have 1,537 warheads but START allows them 1,550. They have stated their intentions to build up to the limits while the United States must reduce its launchers by 25%. Who negotiated that bonehead deal? The press is either cowardly or complicit.
Since the President says the “rich” should pay more taxes and since the Vice-President says it is “patriotic” to pay taxes, why did they both claim all available charitable deductions? These two rich guys could have foregone those deductions and voluntarily showed their patriotism. The press could have pointed this out but they are either cowardly or complicit.
When the President said “Shovel ready was not as…uh…shovel ready as we expected” there was virtually no press follow up. The President and his Council of Economic Advisors (most who fled back to academia) failed in their problem analysis, failed in their data collection, and failed in selecting an effective economic solution. Since the Great Depression, recessions have lasted an average of ten months with the longest being sixteen months. As of May, thanks to the disastrous economic policies of this President and his egghead advisors, this recession is at 41 months and counting. One thing is certain: this is the WORST RECOVERY since the Great Depression! The media doesn’t cover this because they are either cowardly or complicit.
Wait…breaking news…Sarah Palin misspelled a word on Twitter. Let’s get our ace reporters right on it!
Back in 1986, the media took a massive clown pratfall. After much ballyhoo and hype, Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone’s safe and found…NOTHING! Recently, the main stream media exacerbated this ineptitude. The New York Times and the Washington Post managed to get the state of Alaska to release 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s emails. Yes, this is the same Sarah Palin that these “august” press icons had declared to be “irrelevant” and whose “political career was finished.” So exactly why was there a school of thirty-strong press piranha in Alaska and what did they find? Given that volume of information, with their flesh-eating press corps, with their enlisted army of “citizen readers”, surely the piranha feeding frenzy would find a smoking gun, a sinister cover-up, a shadow government, evidence of malfeasance and hopefully, criminal wrongdoing. In fact they found…NOTHING!
That is to say, they found nothing of substance to support their preconceived biases and further their vindictive assassination of all things Palin. What they did find was evidence of a very hands-on and knowledgeable Governor in Alaskan oil and gas policy and its relationship to United States energy independence. They found someone who was very interested in conservation and fish and game issues. They also found a hard working Governor who not only pursued ethics reform but took on a wide range of corruption in Alaskan politics including some in her own party. She was a tireless advocate for smaller, more efficient government and for second amendment rights despite a plethora of death threats against her. Of course this does not fit the destructive yarn they choose to fabricate so the piranhas were called home and the story was killed.
If Sarah Palin is truly irrelevant as the supposed intelligentsia and ruling class claim, why are they still suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome and why are they addicted to “every move she makes and every breath she takes”? Wasn’t it rather unseemly for the piranha press to act like predatory paparazzi as they followed her every step on her family’s bus tour along the east coast historical sites? Apparently they are incurably addicted and are nothing more than malevolent Palin-hating junkies of the worst order.
If she was a candidate for public office that would be one thing but it is hard to imagine that there is anything more to be learned about this totally transparent life given the last three years of microscopic analysis. Of course there is always the truth but don’t expect to find that in the main stream media.
Is it a question of priorities? The press could have covered the latest developments from the Strategic Arms Treaty that shows Russia has only 521 strategic launchers but START allows them 700; they have 1,537 warheads but START allows them 1,550. They have stated their intentions to build up to the limits while the United States must reduce its launchers by 25%. Who negotiated that bonehead deal? The press is either cowardly or complicit.
Since the President says the “rich” should pay more taxes and since the Vice-President says it is “patriotic” to pay taxes, why did they both claim all available charitable deductions? These two rich guys could have foregone those deductions and voluntarily showed their patriotism. The press could have pointed this out but they are either cowardly or complicit.
When the President said “Shovel ready was not as…uh…shovel ready as we expected” there was virtually no press follow up. The President and his Council of Economic Advisors (most who fled back to academia) failed in their problem analysis, failed in their data collection, and failed in selecting an effective economic solution. Since the Great Depression, recessions have lasted an average of ten months with the longest being sixteen months. As of May, thanks to the disastrous economic policies of this President and his egghead advisors, this recession is at 41 months and counting. One thing is certain: this is the WORST RECOVERY since the Great Depression! The media doesn’t cover this because they are either cowardly or complicit.
Wait…breaking news…Sarah Palin misspelled a word on Twitter. Let’s get our ace reporters right on it!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Donkeys Fiddle While Medicare Burns!
By William L. Garvin
By all estimates, the Medicare trust fund will be exhausted within ten years. Given the huge numbers of retiring Baby Boomers, it is likely that the end will come sooner than estimated. Despite the political risk, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) submitted a budget proposal that addressed this problem. What did we get from the Donkey Party? A commercial!
Rather than addressing the impending demise of Medicare, the Donkeys brayed their usual ad hominem attack, misstated the Ryan proposals, and made a commercial. In it, they had a Ryan look-alike pushing a struggling grandma in a wheelchair up a mountain where he predictably threw her over the cliff. That’s what passes for intelligent political discourse in the corrals of the Donkey Party.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the Dems don’t have any substantive solutions to the Medicare dilemma. After nearly 800 days, they still haven’t submitted a budget proposal and Harry Reid does not seem inclined to do so. The President’s feeble offering was rejected by a 97-0 vote; he couldn’t even get a single Donkey vote! Also keep in mind that ObamaCare was funded by the Obama-Reid-Pelosi combine by cutting Medicare by $500 billion in “waste and fraud.” Why didn’t we see commercials of Pelosi and Reid throwing Grandma off the cliff? Maybe it’s because it boggles the imagination to even consider the diminutive Nevada waif pushing an empty wheel chair up a hill, let alone one containing a struggling senior citizen.
Another of their ad hominem attacks is to mock the “death panel” phrase that was popularized by Sarah Palin. When will you Donkeys explain exactly how the Independent Payment Advisory Board is a) constitutional and b) not a potential death panel? You passed it so explain it. This atrocity of ObamaCare is specifically chartered to contain costs by promoting “efficiencies.” Given the presidential appointees’ predilection for “comparative lives systems” (rationing) and their charter to determine which procedures will be authorized, how much physicians will be compensated, and whether or not hospitals can continue to participate by having “reduced spending,” expect the current exodus of physicians from Medicare and Medicaid to become a flood of Biblical proportions!
Donkeys will attack the Ryan budget proposal. They will not offer one of their own. Donkeys will attack the Ryan Medicare proposal. They will not offer one of their own. Donkeys will say they have “saved or created” 2.5 million jobs; the Bureau of Labor Statistics says this Administration has lost 2.5 million jobs. Donkeys will tout the economic recovery when there is no such thing. Donkeys will ignore the fact that nearly 15% of the country is on food stamps. Donkeys will ignore the fact that there is over 9% unemployment. Donkeys will lie about the success of Government Motors and the pathetic Volt.
Don’t expect any substantive problem solving from the Donkey Party because they think this is a winning strategy. Their template was made clear in the New York 26 race. Republican Chris Lee resigned after posting a shirtless photo and sexy message on Craigslist (take a lesson Anthony Weiner!). Then the deep pockets Democrat Kathy Hochul mercilessly misrepresented the Ryan plan and lied about Republicans ending Medicare with no replacement. Furthermore, Jack Davis (who had run for the office three times as a Democrat!) spent $3 million of his “own” money to pretend to run as a Tea Party candidate. It is clear that the Ruling Class has no sense of decency or fair play in their ruthless quest to retain power at any cost. Davis, a big government, big spending liberal, pulled enough votes away from the Republican candidate to toss the election to the Donkey. Now they have a national game plan. If they have enough voters who are too ignorant to look at the facts or the history of the candidates, they can elect even a radical politician who intends to fundamentally transform America and who thinks government has all the answers. It happened in 2008 and it can happen again.
By all estimates, the Medicare trust fund will be exhausted within ten years. Given the huge numbers of retiring Baby Boomers, it is likely that the end will come sooner than estimated. Despite the political risk, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) submitted a budget proposal that addressed this problem. What did we get from the Donkey Party? A commercial!
Rather than addressing the impending demise of Medicare, the Donkeys brayed their usual ad hominem attack, misstated the Ryan proposals, and made a commercial. In it, they had a Ryan look-alike pushing a struggling grandma in a wheelchair up a mountain where he predictably threw her over the cliff. That’s what passes for intelligent political discourse in the corrals of the Donkey Party.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the Dems don’t have any substantive solutions to the Medicare dilemma. After nearly 800 days, they still haven’t submitted a budget proposal and Harry Reid does not seem inclined to do so. The President’s feeble offering was rejected by a 97-0 vote; he couldn’t even get a single Donkey vote! Also keep in mind that ObamaCare was funded by the Obama-Reid-Pelosi combine by cutting Medicare by $500 billion in “waste and fraud.” Why didn’t we see commercials of Pelosi and Reid throwing Grandma off the cliff? Maybe it’s because it boggles the imagination to even consider the diminutive Nevada waif pushing an empty wheel chair up a hill, let alone one containing a struggling senior citizen.
Another of their ad hominem attacks is to mock the “death panel” phrase that was popularized by Sarah Palin. When will you Donkeys explain exactly how the Independent Payment Advisory Board is a) constitutional and b) not a potential death panel? You passed it so explain it. This atrocity of ObamaCare is specifically chartered to contain costs by promoting “efficiencies.” Given the presidential appointees’ predilection for “comparative lives systems” (rationing) and their charter to determine which procedures will be authorized, how much physicians will be compensated, and whether or not hospitals can continue to participate by having “reduced spending,” expect the current exodus of physicians from Medicare and Medicaid to become a flood of Biblical proportions!
Donkeys will attack the Ryan budget proposal. They will not offer one of their own. Donkeys will attack the Ryan Medicare proposal. They will not offer one of their own. Donkeys will say they have “saved or created” 2.5 million jobs; the Bureau of Labor Statistics says this Administration has lost 2.5 million jobs. Donkeys will tout the economic recovery when there is no such thing. Donkeys will ignore the fact that nearly 15% of the country is on food stamps. Donkeys will ignore the fact that there is over 9% unemployment. Donkeys will lie about the success of Government Motors and the pathetic Volt.
Don’t expect any substantive problem solving from the Donkey Party because they think this is a winning strategy. Their template was made clear in the New York 26 race. Republican Chris Lee resigned after posting a shirtless photo and sexy message on Craigslist (take a lesson Anthony Weiner!). Then the deep pockets Democrat Kathy Hochul mercilessly misrepresented the Ryan plan and lied about Republicans ending Medicare with no replacement. Furthermore, Jack Davis (who had run for the office three times as a Democrat!) spent $3 million of his “own” money to pretend to run as a Tea Party candidate. It is clear that the Ruling Class has no sense of decency or fair play in their ruthless quest to retain power at any cost. Davis, a big government, big spending liberal, pulled enough votes away from the Republican candidate to toss the election to the Donkey. Now they have a national game plan. If they have enough voters who are too ignorant to look at the facts or the history of the candidates, they can elect even a radical politician who intends to fundamentally transform America and who thinks government has all the answers. It happened in 2008 and it can happen again.
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