How do you get us out of recession?

 

Well if your a socialist or Liberal (one in the same) you tax the evillll rich and businesses of course! Problem with that is that sooner or later the so called evil rich are going to shrug and when they do it will be the death of this once great country. (If you don’t know what I mean by statement then you need to read this ASAP and you’ll see where Chairman O is leading us with this class warfare bullshit)

Another problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Perhaps Dr. Adrian Rogers said it best, to-wit:

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

 

As I often do I wandered a bit off point but here are the stats that inspired this post to begin with.

From Jake Tapper:

Obama's Budget: Almost $1 Trillion in New Taxes Over Next 10 yrs, Starting 2011

February 26, 2009 12:00 PM

President Obama's budget proposes $989 billion in new taxes over the course of the next 10 years, starting fiscal year 2011, most of which are tax increases on individuals.

1) On people making more than $250,000.

$338 billion - Bush tax cuts expire
$179 billion - eliminate itemized deduction
$118 billion - capital gains tax hike

Total: $636 billion/10 years

2) Businesses:

$17 billion - Reinstate Superfund taxes
$24 billion - tax carried-interest as income
$5 billion - codify "economic substance doctrine"
$61 billion - repeal LIFO
$210 billion - international enforcement, reform deferral, other tax reform
$4 billion - information reporting for rental payments
$5.3 billion - excise tax on Gulf of Mexico oil and gas
$3.4 billion - repeal expensing of tangible drilling costs
$62 million - repeal deduction for tertiary injectants
$49 million - repeal passive loss exception for working interests in oil and natural gas properties
$13 billion - repeal manufacturing tax deduction for oil and natural gas companies
$1 billion - increase to 7 years geological and geophysical amortization period for independent producers
$882 million - eliminate advanced earned income tax credit

Total: $353 billion/10 years

10 facts on the Admin's 2010 Budget

 

Just un-fucking-believable spending. Brain hurts even attempting to wrap my meager mind around this mass of splattered feces they call a budget. Read it and WEEP or tilt the bottle. However you maybe inclined:

1.  The Administration’s projected budget deficit of $1.75 trillion is higher than the last five years of deficits combined, and under this plan, we will see three consecutive trillion dollar deficits between now and FY 2012.

2.  While it was purported to cut the budget deficit in half – from $1.75 trillion in 2009 to $533 billion by 2013 – this budget projects higher deficits in 2014 ($570 billion), 2015 ($583 billion), and 2016 ($637 billion).  In 2019, the final year in the budget, the deficit is projected to be $712 billion.

3.  Including the recently-enacted trillion-dollar “stimulus” spending bill, discretionary spending will soar by 24 percent this year under this budget.

4.  The budget projects that the national debt will increase from $8.4 trillion in 2009 to $15.4 trillion in 2019.

5.  The Administration’s budget contains $1.4 trillion in tax increases – tax hikes that will impact everyone, from small businesses, charities, and seniors to everyone who owns a 401(k) and anyone who flips on a light switch. 

If you can stomach it the rest is here:

10 Fast Facts on the Administration's FY 2010 Budget 

Yeah, yeah…I know the pic has nothing to do with the subject matter but that’s on purpose because I’d rather look at a cute kitty than any of the worthless douchbags we’ve elected in congress.

Cap & trade, bad idea when your economy is in the crapper

 

Or anytime for that matter.

The global warming, cap and trade scam rolls on and now it’s getting closer to rolling right over us. Yet another sot to the church of enviro-worshipping  moonbats it will do nothing to lower CO2 emissions while at the same time adding a entirely new tax on businesses that are already vastly over taxed.

As we all know(or should know if your not SLOW) businesses don’t really pay taxes. They pass those along to us so we’ll be paying for this just like everything else.

Cap and trade combined with this should just about finish off our economy all to save the planet from non existent global warming that we aren’t causing!

Grease up comrades, bend over and get ready for another royal reaming from our glorious nanny state let by Chairman O.

Obama Introduces Cap & Trade--- Finally a Solution to Pretend Global Warming

Obama counting on cap-and-trade

Carbon Trading Markets Collapse

KY Rep Introduces State Sovereignty Resolution

Of course this is a great idea:

On 02/24/09, Kentucky State Representative, John Will Stacy (D) introduced House Concurrent Resolution 168, which reads:

“A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION claiming sovereignty over powers not granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution; serving notice to the federal government to cease mandates beyond its authority; and stating Kentucky’s position that federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of loss of federal funding should be prohibited or repealed.”

For those history buffs out there, Kentucky was at the forefront in asserting the principles of State Sovereignty in the early days of the Republic.   The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 took what some consider to be the strongest position on this issue in our history.

But most likely nothing will come if it and even if it did you can bet your arse that our Governor will still greedily take our slice of the porkulas bill won’t he while at the same time raising taxes on our 2 largest industries, tobacco and alcohol? uhhh-hmmm.

Check it out here and here.

See also Stimulus watch: Projects in Kentucky

Ann shooting straight on the teachers unions

 

Wow this is brutal but brilliant. In other words typical Ann.

He was suspiciously verbose about saving the jobs of public schoolteachers. Because nothing says "economic stimulus" better than saving the jobs of lethargic incompetents who kick off at 2 p.m. every day and get summers off. Actually, that's not fair: Some teachers spend long hours after school having sex with their students.
As with the Clintons, Obama so earnestly believes in public school education that he sends his girls to ... an expensive private school. He demands that taxpayers support the very public schoolteachers he won't trust with his own children.
It is one thing to tell voters that school choice is wrong, because, you know, the public schools won't get better unless Americans sacrifice their children to the teachers' union's maw. But it is quite another for Democrats to feed their own kids to the union incinerator.
Consequently, no Democrat since Jimmy Carter has been stupid enough to send his own children to a public school.

If I could be that big of a smart ass I’d write full time

Read it all: THE CAL RIPKEN PRESIDENT

It’s really easy to cut the deficit…

when you have increased the deficit by over a trillion in only 1 month of being in office! Hell, all he has to do is not spend that much next year and he can claim he’s cut the deficit which in DC speak would technically be true.

We didn’t get in the mess because we spend to little so stop the spending! Let the free market work and let bad businesses fail. If the MSM were doing their job they would question the Chairman O administration on this obvious double talking out of both sides of his ass. But they won’t because they are all too busy kissing and slobbering all over his ass.

From Newsmax: WASHINGTON – Urging strict future restraint even as current spending soars, President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to dramatically slash the skyrocketing annual budget deficit as he started to dole out the record $787 billion economic stimulus package he signed last week.

"If we confront this crisis without also confronting the deficits that helped cause it, we risk sinking into another crisis down the road," the president warned, promising to cut the yearly deficit in half by the end of his four-year term. "We cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences."

Obama Pledges Decrease in Deficit — After Increase

Chairman O's EPA to regulate our breath

Despite the fact humans are NOT causing global warming and despite the increase in carbon emissions the earth has actually been cooling since 1998 the EPA will most likely start regulating Carbon Dioxide. Why you ask? Easy, as with most moves that the imperial federal Gov. has taken lately it's designed to take your money and freedom away.

This shill to the enviro-commies should kill what's left of our economy and finish off what's left of our freedom as well. Might seem like a doomsday conclusion but it's very easy make. To wit:

On average each human exhales about 2 pounds of Carbon Dioxide or CO2 everyday and once the Gov. controls your breath it controls your LIFE even more so that socialized medicine.

Most everything we do daily emits some sort of CO2 this means virtually all your activities will now be regulated by the central planners in DC and the cost of everything you do will increase as businesses are forced to pay more for their carbon emissions.

Oh almost forgot, power generation. Chairman O's hatred and desired abolishment of coal is about to be realized BIG TIME. This will either trigger the shutdown of the entire coal industry or greatly increase the cost of every coal fired power plant across the nation. Not such a great idea when over 50% of America's power comes from coal and in states like Kentucky (where I live) over 90% of our power comes from coal.

Hope you enjoy being dead broke setting in a house with no power because that's where we are headed, unless your one of the upper crust self appointed governing elite like AlGore then those rules don't apply.

Welcome to hopey-changey-smiley face socialism and we are just getting started. Regretting that vote yet?

E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide and Other Heat-Trapping Gases - NYTimes.com

EPA Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide for First Time - Foxnews.com

EPA to Start Regulating All Human Activity

Government spending WAY outta control

   I bagged me a liberal

Ted Nugent’s last few columns have been stellar and he keeps the streak going here. Just bloody brilliant. He needs to run for office like right NOW.

How about, for starters:

• Have the IRS to conduct an audit of overt tax cheats such as Treasury Secretary Geithner, former U.S. Senator Daschle, and Rep. Rangel.

• Force our Congress critters to actually read the 800 billion dollar Fedzilla Spending Bill before voting on the most expensive piece of legislation in our nation's history. The Heritage Foundation has calculated this mess will cost us over three trillion dollars over the next ten years.

• Have some member of the press (at least one of them who can actually get close enough) ask President Obama if he is willing to borrow and spend another trillion of taxpayer dollars on another Porkosarus Spending bill if the current Porkosarus Spending bill fails to do much of anything.

• For the entire Republican delegation on Capital Hill to demand the Three Stooges (Republican Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins) leave the Republican Party and shun them altogether until they do.

• Have the Fedzillacrats provide the most fundamental oversight and control of the financial institutions who were given $350 billion of our tax dollars in TARP funds.

Entire article: Stop Fedzilla

Global warming hysteria reaching new heights of scare mongering

Polls are typically worthless but every GW related one I see shows less and less of the public buying into the global warm swindle so those I'd like to beleive! People like Hanson and Gore realize they are running out of time to get their economy and frankly life destroying polices enacted so they are ratcheting up the scare and fear tactics almost daily to the point it's laughable. Apparently God isn't a fan of AlGore either because everywhere he shows up they have record cold and snow.

Hansen's latest off the rails apeshit crazy diatribe is just stunningly stupid:

In a wild rant in Sunday's Guardian responding to British Prime Minster Gordon Brown's green-lighting of the controversial Kingsnorth power plant, the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies managed to outdo even his own sophomoric guilt trips and fear-mongering.  Repeating last year's call for a moratorium on British coal-fired plants, which he has since extended to Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd and others, Hansen branded coal as "the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet." 

He insisted "that the coal source must be cut off" as "a cap only slows the use of a fuel - it does not leave it in the ground."  Calling for a "phase-out of coal," Hansen even restated references to the plants as "factories of death," and trains carrying the black rocks to them as "death trains," the latter a toned-down adaptation of these outrageously offensive words he laid on the Iowa Utilities Board back in October of 2007: "If we cannot stop the building of more coal-fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains - no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species."

Just farking wow and that guy works at NASA! They must have really lowered their standards to let Forrest through the front door.

Entire article here: Has NASA's Hansen Finally Lost His Mind?
Alan Caruba here: Governement by Crazy People

Ronald Reagan - A Time for Choosing

Must watch video of a speech from Ronnie back in 1964 that might be the best political speech I've ever heard. Most of what he says here can be applied to today which really does enforce the old adage about history repeating itself.

Happy Valentines day!

Got my wife of almost 7 years 2 dozen tulips and she got me of all things a singing greeting that came yesterday. Will put up the video on youtube today hopefully. We are going to the olive garden a bit later and should have a nice quiet night at home and with any luck some hanky-panky will ensue! :-)

Margaret Thatcher Quotes

The ‘iron lady’ was President Regan’s sister in arms throughout the 80’s and thank god for that! I ran across a quote from Prime Minister Thatcher and thought ok, I did Reagan yesterday, let’s do Maggie today. So here we go. 1st is my favorite.

• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money
• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
• Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
• Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
• I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
• I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
• I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
• I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
• I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
• I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
• If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
• If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
• If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
• If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
• It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
• It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
• It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
• Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
• Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
• Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
• There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
• There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
• To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

More Quotes from Ronaldus Maximus

A few months back I posted some quotes from my favorite President and this morning I ran across more.

Regan’s quotes always make me smile and recall the good old days of his administration when America was strong and far less dependent.

• Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. Ronald Reagan
• All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald Reagan
• Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. Ronald Reagan
• Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Ronald Reagan
• Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. Ronald Reagan
• Don't be afraid to see what you see. Ronald Reagan
• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan
• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. Ronald Reagan
• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan
• I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan
• I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. Ronald Reagan
• I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life. Ronald Reagan
• I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. Ronald Reagan
• I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. Ronald Reagan
• Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. Ronald Reagan
• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. Ronald Reagan
• It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan
• It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. Ronald Reagan
• Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. Ronald Reagan
• Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan
• Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. Ronald Reagan
• Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. Ronald Reagan
• Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. Ronald Reagan
• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan
• To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. Ronald Reagan

We are being force fed a crap filled pork sandwich

 

h/t to Yid with lid and All American Blogger for this list of PORK in the road to socialism bill or crap sandwich as Michelle Malkin calls it. This turkey should be scrapped and totally forgotten.

Apparently no one in the Gov. learned the lessons of the great depression because they are repeating the exact same mistakes.  Best thing thing the imperial federal government can do is NOTHING.

But that’s not really what it’s about is it? It’s about running us so far down the road to socialism & communism that we’ll never be able to pull out of it. I understood that’s who Obama was from the beginning, too bad enough of the glassy eyed Obmaton worshippers didn’t.

Wasteful and Non-Stimulus Spending Provisions

• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Dept. of Energy defunded last year because the project was inefficient
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film
• $650 million for the digital television (DTV) converter box coupon program
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship)
• $448 million for constructing the Dept. of Homeland Security headquarters
• $248 million for furniture at the new Dept. of Homeland Security headquarters
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees
• $400 million for the CDC to screen and prevent STD’s
• $1.4 billion for a rural waste disposal programs
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion
• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities”
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings
• $500 million for state and local fire stations
• $650 million for wildland fire management on Forest Service lands
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property
• $500 million for building and repairing NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the VA “National Cemetery Administration”
• $850 million for Amtrak
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint
• $75M to construct a new “security training” facility for State Dept Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
• State Medicaid Bailout: $87.7 billion Through 3 different mechanisms, the bill would provide additional federal funds to state Medicaid programs over the next 3 years. This is nearly $70 billion more than the governors asked President Obama for in December, and should be a loan to be repaid by the states.

Much more here on Tom Coburn’s senate page.              Coburn Fights Generational Theft Act, AKA Senate Stimulus Bill

Very cool, I should have been a Archeologist

Couple pic's and nice story on Meresamum the mummy here
Images of 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy revealed by scanner - Telegraph

Wow, talk about serendipity, I just did some research and Meresamum is here in the USA right now! Going to be in the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago from February 10 - October 18, 2009. After I get laid off I just might have to drive up there.

Check it out here: The Life of Meresamun - A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt

Lost your job or hunting for one? Good luck, you’ll need it.

 

Excellent and amusing site Moonbattery brings up a good point here: Lost Your Job? Thank the Government 

Until the economy turns around the government should immediately freeze or totally end the H1B visa program. It just seems counterintuitive and frankly retarded to be importing 1.5 million Indians into America while our unemployment rate keeps rising by the week. Take those that are unemployed, retrain them and both problems are solved. High tech firms get workers and American’s get back to work.

Also we should enforce all immigration laws and deport as many illegal's as possible. As their housing, school and job choices dry up the rest will leave on their own. Yeah, I know the meme that they only take jobs Americans won’t do. I think that’s total shite but lets for the moment assume it’s correct. As the scarcity of jobs and the economy get’s worse and worse I think Americans will start taking anything they can get. To take care of my family I know I would.

February 3, 1959 – The day the music died

 

50 years ago today Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson crashed into a cornfield eight miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa. I wasn’t born until 1968 so no real connection with them but I’ve always liked their music and of course the Don McLean song American Pie.

Read a few interesting stories today and though I would share. Feel like blasting Peggy Sue right now but work kills that fun. Later when I’m at home going to crank up some Buddy.

The 'Day the Music Died' didn't kill music - it lived and grew bigger

The Day the Music Died

Louisville Ice & Snow storm 2009 II

From Ice storm 2009

[Above photo is looking out my moms back door]

Today at work ran across a bunch of stories about how King Obama has abandoned my state Kentucky and left all us white bread, bible clinging, gun toting crackers to die in the ice. It's obvious that these posts are mostly said firmly with tongue-in-cheek and are just proving a point about how the media eviscerated Bush for his handling of Katrina but are giving King O a free pass on this.

Since I'm living the Ice storm right now and busy taking care of my family and friends I hadn't really thought about it. (By the way, I'm typing this post from work. My power is/was out...read on)

But we don't need the help of FEMA or any other abbreviated Gov. agency. All they do is get in the way and gum up the works. We Kentuckians are pretty strong independent folks and are used to taking care of ourselves, our families and each other when needed and that's exactly what we are doing now. I haven't seen nor heard one person asking about when the Fed's are going to rush in and help us. We don't care because we help each other and don't worry about the rest.

Personally I have been pretty lucky. When the storm started my parents lost power almost instantly. Since my mom is on oxygen I packed them up and brought them to my house. Their power came up 24 hours later so I took them back and checked in hourly to make sure they were ok. The power in my neighborhood mostly stayed on until Friday when it(including my house) went dead around 11AM. After spending a brutally cold night at home trying to keep our mini zoo of animals alive I bought a generator on Saturday and we've been doing alright ever since.

Most everyone on my street locked up and left their homes Friday and it's very weird looking out your window at night and the entire neighborhood is pitch black. The only lights are yours and the house next door who had a generator. I've slept with a pistol at the ready every night just in case but so far not needed it thank god. I've heard rumors of punks out stealing generators but I think they are just that rumors.

With any luck our power will come on soon but if not, we'll survive just fine. That's what us redneck, inbred, hilljacks do best.

Links to various articles below:

• Is it racist to let white people freeze to death in Kentucky while Obama parties and FEMA doesn't help?
• Kentucky Still Powerless, Obama Dines on $100 Steak, Doesn't Send In FEMA
• Obama: "Let Them Eat Steak"
• KENTUCKY: No power, no FEMA. “Where is the outrage?”
• Here’s the Beef!
• Helping Kentucky ice storm victims
• ED ANGER SAYS: OBAMA HATES KENTUCKY!