More from the Junior Achievement adminstration

When will the media types get that this guys give incompetence a bad name.............

The CIA’s top officer in Kabul was exposed Saturday by the White House when his name was inadvertently included on a list provided to news organizations of senior U.S. officials participating in President Obama’s surprise visit with U.S. troops.

The White House recognized the mistake and quickly issued a revised list that did not include the individual, who had been identified on the initial release as the “Chief of Station” in Kabul, a designation used by the CIA for its highest-ranking spy in a country.

The disclosure marked a rare instance in which a CIA officer working overseas had his cover — the secrecy meant to protect his actual identity — pierced by his own government. The only other recent case came under significantly different circumstances, when former CIA operative Valerie Plame was exposed as officials of the George W. Bush administration sought to discredit her husband, a former ambassador and fierce critic of the decision to invade Iraq.

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Of course, this reported dropped the popular meme that Bushies intentionally outed Plame, when we actually know that it was a state department blabbermouth named Richard Armitage who had nothing to do with the Bushies.

But why let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.

No illegal voting here #10

Maybe they were born that way..........

According to a new study, pedophiles’ brains are “abnormally tuned” to find young children attractive.

Lead Researcher Jorge Ponseti from the University of Kiel in Germany says now it may be possible to diagnose pedophiles before they are able to offend.

The researchers found that pedophiles have the same neurological reaction to images of those they find attractive as those of people with ordinary sexual predilections. A pedophile’s relevant cerebral areas become engaged when they see children. When an adult finds someone attractive, their occipital areas become engaged, but this is inverted for pedophiles.

The researchers believe this is proof that there is a neural pattern behind a pedophile’s behavior.

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Instead of gun control how about some parental control

(Warning ......This post is rated NC -17 for foul content)

The more I read about this asshole in Santa Barbara the more I want to beat the hell out of his parents.

Why?

To start with, their ability after the fact to blame the NRA for his ability to purchase guns.

Really?

Let's start with the fact that in all these stories, not one mentions his relationships with his coworkers.

What's the significance of that you might ask?

Because to have co workers you would need to have a fucking job. Has anyone asked how this shit head was able to buy 3 - 9mm pistols? Where did he get the money?  In Ohio, these guns would cost at least $400 a piece. I'm thinking that in California the cost would exceed $1500. Did either of his parents look at a credit card bill and say "shit Junior what did you buy at Bob's Gun Shop for $1500?".

The cops found 41 magazines in his possession. I just bought 2 magazines for my Ruger .380 LCP and they cost about $38 a piece. 40-10 round clips I would think would be $40; $1600 all together.

The ammo probably cost an extra $200.00

So this kid had the ability to purchase $3200.00 of guns and ammo with what? His charming good looks and rants about sorority girls?

Let's not forget the BMW and Armani sunglasses he was tooling around in to deliver his death sentences.

This kid was a hot mess and you let him have carte blanche purchasing power?

Fortunately, gun advocates have been able to switch the debate from one of guns to one of mental health. But this kid, like many of the others, had a lot of access to mental health services. I'd be willing to bet nearly all of them have been on psychotropic drugs. All of them had access to guns, not because there was a market to buy them but because, the people closest to these douche bags paid for them.

This punk needed less mental health treatment and more ass beatings in his life. Less gun control and more emotional impulse training. More parental involvement and less free time to pursue jerk off activities like hours playing videos games.

Let's face it. Had this punk actually had to get a job and work for those guns he might have slipped into a more productive use for his time and money.

The bottom line is this putrid piece of shit was delivered to the public from his parent in a kick ass BMW. If they made him get a job, he at least would have use some of that money for gas instead of another magazine.

Can I get an Amen?

Democrats.............

Protecting people who kill veterans.............

And Senate Democrats have been slow to embrace House-passed legislation that would give Shinseki the authority to fire senior executives.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) questioned whether legislation could address the VA’s problems, noting “most of it has to be done administratively.”

Senate leaders also expressed support for the Cabinet member on Thursday.

“I think he’s doing a thorough review, as he should, of VA medical centers on the scheduling issue,” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.).

Richard Griffin, the VA’s acting inspector general, plans to release his own report on allegations that VA facilities concealed the wait times for veterans seeking medical treatment. Critics say that dozens of veterans may have died while waiting for treatment.

I mean let's face it. Veterans are more prone to vote republican. Inept and/or corrupt employees vote for democrats. Killing two birds with one stone.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/207041-senate-dems-close-ranks-on-va#ixzz32Yb3rFif
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Life in "Progress" Country - France edition

France’s state-owned rail network RFF just ordered 2,000 brand new trains as part of an effort to modernize the country’s transit network. There’s just one problem: the new trains are too wide for most of the country’s train platforms.

How did this happen? EU rules required France to split ownership of its railways and the trains that use them. Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) owns and operates the country’s rail infrastructure, while Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) operates the actual trains.

Unfortunately, the two separate state-owned firms don’t seem to know how to talk to one another. SNCF was in charge of ordering the new trains, but it relied on RFF for specs of the stations the trains would be servicing. RFF supplied dimensions for new stations, though most of France’s stations are older and, therefore, a different size. The upshot of all of this: those new trains won’t fit in more than half of the country’s stations, so France is now working to widen old platforms to accommodate the ordering error—repairs which have already cost more than $100 million.

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Life in "Progress" City - Detroit edition

When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon at a far more threatening concern: carjackers.

The armed auto thieves have become so common here that parts of the bankrupt metropolis are referred to as "Carjack City," and many motorists fear getting out of their vehicles even for a few moments to fill a tank.

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Maybe it's me

A few years ago, I read a great Greg Allman quote where he said "after my sixth divorce, I started to wonder if it might be me".

Maybe our commander in chief will come up with the same reflection some day.

Why don't McDonald's employees unionize?

Yesterday, a pack of thugs rushed some McDonald's stores in protest of minimum wage.

I've got a question for these thugs. If working conditions are so horrible there, why doesn't the SEIU set up a union in these shops?

I'll tell you why. They can't.

See, for the SEIU to unionize a McDonald's store they would have to have a number of employees with the longevity to organize the workers and they don't.

Why?

Because freakin' McDonalds is not a destination job. The average tenure of a McDonald's employee is probably less than six months.

Most come in, do their work, earn some skills, get paid, and move on to a more lucrative job. That's the way it works.

I worked at McDonald's as a kid. I started at 5 cents above minimum wage. After a month, I got a raise of 10 cents an hour. Within six weeks, I was promoted to crew leader and made another 10 cents an hour.

It was rough boy, All I did was show up to work on time, clean and ready to go.

Had I chosen to stay I probably would have made more money over time. Instead, I took a more lucrative job at a CPA firm making considerably more than what I could have ever made at McDonald's.

That's the way it works and anyone who doesn't get that really doesn't deserve more than minimum wage because they can't get the concept that they have to provide a service above and beyond their pay to their employer.

Democrats for the little man my butt..........

At what point do we, as a public, finally come to terms that democrats couldn't give a rip about
working people.

Take energy policy. Here's a piece from the AP on the future hikes in electricity rates.

Electricity prices are probably on their way up across much of the US as coal-fired plants, the dominant source of cheap power, shut down in response to environmental regulations and economic forces.

New and tighter pollution rules and tough competition from cleaner sources such as natural gas, wind and solar will lead to the closings of dozens of coal-burning plants across 20 states over the next three years. And many of those that stay open will need expensive retrofits.

Because of these and other factors, the Energy Department predicts retail power prices will rise 4 percent on average this year, the biggest increase since 2008. By 2020, prices are expected to climb an additional 13 percent, a forecast that does not include the costs of coming environmental rules.

Now ask yourself the question. Who gets hit hardest by these energy rate hikes?

1) George Soros
2) A mechnical engineer
3) a fixed income retiree

4) Lebron James.
5) An auto worker

But heating and cooling costs are just part of the economic hurt being inflicted upon our working folks. There's a residual impact of higher production costs for manufacturers.

It's here in the same article.........

As Indiana has reduced its reliance on coal to 84 percent from 97 percent over the last decade, its power prices rose far faster than those of its neighbors and the rest of the country.

That makes things tough on customers, especially big power users like Rochester Metal Products Corp., in Rochester, Indiana. The hulking furnaces it uses to melt scrap iron consume enough electricity to power 7,000 households.

“As Indiana’s price of electricity becomes less and less competitive, so do we,” says Doug Smith, the company’s maintenance and engineering manager.

That same principle applies not just between states but between countries. If our production costs go up, that simply means that production get shifted to countries who provide cheaper labor and cheaper energy costs.

Now ask yourself who that hurts more.

1) The Koch Brothers
2) A mechanical engineer
3) A fixed income retiree
4) Kobe Bryant
5) an auto worker


So welcome the next time you drive through Gary, Indiana and see all those mothballed steel plants along the lakefront that used to provide nice jobs to working folks, you can thank the Obamunists.

O better be careful

King Obama better be careful these next couple of months because he's about to be the one tossed under the bus for a change.

Why?

Consider this. He offers democrats nothing but a few campaign bucks for this coming election. Yet, there are no amount of campaign dollars that can compensate for the albatross he's hung on the democrats with his Obamacare and now the VA scandals.

If the democrats lose the Senate, who's going to take the heat? Hilary Clinton? Since the One has no ability to run for reelection, those who will be running for president are going to come out distancing themselves from this clown.

The media will also be complicit in featuring the contrasting styles with the new democratic nominees with the competence of the One.

Once the latest, EPA and Obamacare regs come out killing more jobs, there will be hell to pay.

Given how his administration has treated democratic members of congress and members of the media, he won't have a scintilla of political capital to use in his defense.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Coincidence?

The Swiss shot down a minimum wage increase...........

Unions argued that the measure was necessary because of the high living costs in big Swiss cities such as Geneva and Zurich.

The unions are angry that Switzerland - one of the richest countries in the world - does not have a minimum pay level while neighbouring France and Germany do.

They argue that surviving on less than 4,000 francs a month is not possible because rents, health insurance and food are all prohibitively expensive.

The minimum wage in Germany will be 8.5 euros an hour from 2017. 

I've got some questions about this passage.........

The Swiss have no minimum wage yet the standard of living is higher than France and Germany who do? Is that a coincidence?

The unions say that it's impossible to live on 4000 francs a month and yet I haven't seen a one article about abject poverty and homelessness in Switzerland. In fact, from my understanding, Geneva and Zurich are considered beautiful, clean cities without a tremendous amount of crime. So wouldn't the parks in these cities be filled with loads of homeless bums if this statement were accurate?

Maybe Germany and France should be following the Swiss's lead and not vice versa.

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Bad Choices

Yabba dabba dooo

Last year, Mrs. Gekko and I went to a Southside Johnny concert. Between bad acoustics and Southside's age, neither Mrs. Gekko or I could understand what the hell the guy was saying between songs.

At one point, Mrs. Gekko asked me what he said I responded " I think it was yabba dabba doo, yabba dabba doo".

Since then, it has become the catch all phrase for us when someone, like Michelle Nunn, speaks like a crackhead.

who did she vote for? #910

Meet Danielle Shea.

Why is Dani in the news?

A drop-out from Quinnipiac University called in bomb threats to the school to try to cancel a graduation ceremony her family expected her to participate in.

According to NBC Connecticut, Danielle Shea, 22, dropped out of school but still collected tuition money from her family. They were at the school to see Shea, who had even bought her cap and gown, graduate.

Shea’s family didn’t see her name on the list of graduates, and she panicked, according to a police news release.

That’s when she called in the first bomb threat to Quinnipiac University Public Safety, saying there was a “bomb in the library,” according to police.

I bet ole Danny here has lots of opinions on politics. So who did she vote for in the last presidential election?

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/20/college-drop-out-delayed-graduation-with-bomb-threat/#ixzz32I2kyqEd

Obama learns about a lot of his scandals from the news

voting present

"Redvilles" v "Progress" Cities

Since the inception of this blog, I have preached the word about the quality of life in our "Red" (conservative) areas v the quality of life in our "Blue" (progressive) areas.

Below is a map of the 2012 election results by county.

As you know, Obama won handily against Romney. Yet, when you look electoral map by county, you can see that most of the country is red except for our large urban areas.

I've been at this blog for 8 years now. And in all this time, not one liberal has been able to refute this assertion on my part. In every single quality of life measure (unemployment, crime, schools, cost of government, etc.), the red areas are better. Really, it's not even close.

There's one quality of life measure that I have failed to consider, income inequality.

Guess what, the red areas reign supreme on that one as well........................

There’s just one problem: the districts where Democrats have the best shot to win Republican-held seats show some of the smallest gaps between rich and poor in the U.S., an indication of just how hard it will be for their message to take hold with voters.

Of the 100 congressional districts ranked as having the greatest gap between rich and poor, not one is held by a Republican whose seat is considered up for grabs this November, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Again, how does a liberal with any conscience see the evidence right in front of them and believe that liberal policies work?

I guess it's the same blind faith that has them believe in the global warming/climate change/chaos.

Maybe if these "progressives" understood this concept, they would understand why conservatives are fighting so hard to keep their safe, clean and productive enclaves from turning into Detroit.

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What a genius

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a response to the liberals demands for an increased minimum wage.

So, for a people who like to portray themselves as Mensa members when they compare themselves to conservatives, they seem to lack an understanding of the law of supple and demand.

So let's do a refresher for all these "progressive" liberal arts majors.

See when the price of something goes up, demand for the product goes down. So when artificially increase the price of labor, employers will seek alternatives to the price increase.

But hey, I must be a honking Nostradamus, for seeing into the future and what?

 

…job prospects in Europe for those so inclined to work in the fast food industry are looking pretty grim right about now. That’s because the fast food giant is poised to add touchscreen kiosks in more than 7,000 of its restaurants in Europe in effort to replace actual, human cashiers.

Who would have thunk it?

Life in "Progress" City - Indianapolis edition

In typical "progressive" fashion, the response to this video isn't to simply fix the potholes, but to use city resources to arrest the dissenter and still not fix the potholes.

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Trey Gowdy Demands Answers On Benghazi

Krauthammer: Global Warming Junk Science Is Like Indian Rain Dance

From the party of smart people

Has she actually read the book?

Tommy Vietor on Benghazi: 'Dude...That Was Two Years Ago'

What does it say about an administration who allows this "dude" to be in the situation room for anything more than cleaning it?

Why it matters

The typical media response the Benghazi scandal is to yawn and proclaim it as a republican attempt to sabotage Obama.

In reality, it matters. Why? Let's boil off the fat and get to the meat.

It matters because a UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR WAS FUCKING ASSASSINATED!!!!!!!

Frankly, I'm ashamed that the media and democrats have just let Craig Stevens become diplomatic chum for the Obama administration. He was one of their own and they have left his death become the price politics........ like a ream of copy paper.

This has happened only six times in US history. To date, no one has been brought to justice outside of some ding dong in LA who produced a video that had nothing to do with the planned attack on our consulate.

No one has asked the president "When one of your employees was being attacked, where were you, what information was being relayed on the attack, why didn't you even attempt a rescue if for no more reason than to secure the area?"

It's disgusting that only one reporter (Sharyl Attkison) outside of Fox News has even given the time of day to this story.

This story is an indictment of the entire media complex. Do you think they'll attempt to make amends by hitting these guys hard?

I won't hold my breath.

minimum wage idiocy

Over the weekend, the Gekko's hit downtown Cincinnati to celebrate my birthday.

Now if you're not familiar with the politics of Cincinnati, PG Sittenfeld, a councilman, is working to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 for businesses within the city.

I thought about that as we walked to the city owned Fountain Square garage and used the automated payment system to pay for our parking.

Do idiots like PG ever wonder what happened to those people who used to get paid to take your money when exiting the garage? I guess they just magically disappeared.

Not exactly. I'm just going to guess that it is a hell of lot cheaper to put a machine in to do the work that you're paying a low skilled worker to do the job. Of course, raising the price on those workers only makes it more likely their jobs will be filled by a machine at some point in time.

When I was a small kid, one of the local grocery stores actually had tags on the grocery carts. When your cart was filled with the groceries, the bagger would hand you the tag. He would take the cart outside and when you pulled up to the curb, he would load the groceries into your car.

What do you think happened to those jobs?

They went the way of pterodactyls and gas station attendants who actually pumped your gas and checked your oil.

It the same economic forces that cause you to not only bag your own groceries but you now get to scan them as well.

So go for it PG and the senate. It's much better to have zero 10.10 jobs than people actually working and getting on to the economic ladder so they can climb their way up.

How liberal policies kill liberals

Eric Holder wants to grant clemency to certain drug dealers.

Let me ask a question to you liberals. When these people get out of prison, will they go back to to the nice conservative enclaves out here in Redville where I reside or will they go back to "Progress" City when they can victimize their residents?

Dem Rep. on Obamacare: The Worst Is Yet to Come, ?It?s Going to Hit the ...

77 cents on the dollar

So let me make sure I have this right.

Those big, fat, awful corporations love profits so much, they're willing to pay workers less than a living wage so they can stuff their big, fat wallets with cash.

If you believe that, then why would there be any job market for men at all if those same big, fat, awful corporations can pay a woman 77% of what they would pay a man to do the same job?

Talk about adding to the bottom line.

Do these people understand supply/demand curves at all?

I've watched that show already

Years ago, while dating my fabulously liberal girlfriend, she turned on one of the Sunday morning news shows and was surprised that I wasn't interested in watching.

"As political as you are, I'm surprised you don't watch all of these."

I replied, "I've already seen them all."

"Uuh?"

"Yeah, this is the show where the moderator has a liberal and a milquetoast conservative answer questions about an issue, and the liberal gives the standard liberal talking point and the milquetoast conservative does the same."

If you never want to learn anything new, keep watching these shows and you'll end up dumber for having done so.

So should anyone be surprised that we now hear this...............

The Sunday morning shows once occupied a sacred space in American politics.

Today, many influential Washington players can’t even remember the last time they watched.

 

The public affairs shows — “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation” and “This Week” — used to set the agenda for the nation’s capital with their news-making interviews and immensely influential audience. Now the buzz around the shows is more likely to center on gossipy criticism about the hosts, notably “Meet the Press’s” David Gregory, whose fate has become an incessant subject of conversation, most recently in a Washington Post story on Monday. Meanwhile, fans complain about the recurrence of familiar guests — Sen. John McCain again? — who simply relay party talking points that often go unchallenged.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/the-sunday-shows-105876.html#ixzz2zcRE4NeR

Obama To Latinos: "Punish Our Enemies"

Disarming the Warriors

Why I hate our government

Because the government has no problem shitting all over  law abiding citizens.............. without due process.

Some 400,000 Americans may see their tax refund checks grabbed by the government after Congress quietly lifted the 10-year statute of limitations in 2011 on money owed to Uncle Sam.

Now, debts going back decades are considered fair game for the IRS, and the government is coming after the children and grandchildren of the original debtors for the repayment. 

In some cases, debts of parents from the early 1960s and 70s are being collected from children. 

In many cases, the IRS doesn't even possess the original records of the debts.

But lets cheating, piles of shit, scumbags keep doing their thing.............

  An Internet connection and a bunch of stolen identities are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in bogus federal tax refunds. And the scam is proving too pervasive to stop.

A government report in November said the IRS issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds over the previous year to criminals who were using other people's personal information. Attorney General Eric Holder said this week that the "scale, scope and execution of these fraud schemes" has grown substantially and the Justice Department in the past year has charged 880 people.

Who's involved? In a video message released ahead of the April 15 tax filing deadline, Holder said the scams "are carried out by a variety of actors, from greedy tax return preparers to identity brokers who profit from the sale of personal information to gangs and drug rings looking for easy access to cash."

I've had a client who had their refund whacked without notice for a debt from 1975,

Due process doesn't exist for the little guy.

Jay Carney Gets Testy With W.H. Reporter Over Gender Gap Statistics

CBS: White House Getting "Roughed Up" Over Its Own Gender Gap

Hillary Struggles To List Accomplishments At State

Swimming upstream?

Obama Open Mic Audio With Russian President Medvedev

How's all that Olga Korbut style flexibility working for you.

Jon Ralston: Optics Of Harry Reid Paying Granddaughter With Campaign Fun...

Democrats are for the little guy

I keep hearing about how democrats are for the little guys.

Really?

Consider this. When municipal pensions go belly up, who gets hurt the most?

1) Sean Penn
2) a retired fire fighter
3) Warren Buffett
4) a Boeing engineer
5) a disabled vet


A really good read on the financial dysfunction within state and municipal pensions.

Money Quote...........

  It is interesting, normally you think of liberals and Democrats as being people who really want to regulate, and particularly they want to regulate the financial markets, in order, as they say, to protect the “little guy.” Well here’s a case in which cities and states are not held to the same standards for their pension funds that any private employer is held to. If in fact, employers did what routinely a lot of cities and states do, they would go to jail.
 

Frankly, when these pensions go bust, I won't give a damn. It's like feeling sorry for an idiot who builds their house in an area susceptible to mudslides.

More........

 

Unionize these guys?

So a regional NLRB has given the thumbs up for scholarship Nortwestern footballs players to unionize.

This topic gets under my skin because most people don't have a clue about the money these guys are already paid.

Consider this......

Tuition and fees By NCAA rules a football player is only allowed to practice 20hr.s/wk. If your son or daughter were given the opportunity to "work" 20 hrs/week, and walk out of Northwestern without a student loan, would you dive on it? the tuition at Northwestern is $15,000 a quarter, you do the math.

Room and board How much does a 300 lb. tackle eat? I guarantee you couldn't buy all that food with a part time job.

Free medical care. I ran track on a partial scholarship and I still got my contacts and eye care free because it was tied to my athletic performance. I also received free treatment for mono that had nothing to do with my athletics. Think about all what all that free medical would cost in real life.

Meal Money When a team goes on a road trip, they get meal money. When they go to Bowl games or other tournaments, the hosts usually provide a buffet for the coaches, players and staffs to accommodate their schedules. Often these guys can pocket a couple of hundred dollars on road trip by eating at the buffet.

Free Tutoring Having trouble with that calculus class? Don't worry. The school will give you a tutor free of charge.

Extra Cash Many schools allow at need kids to keep their Pell Grant money and/or other government need based scholarships. I get sick of hearing about how a guy can't take a girl out for a movie when they have a thousand dollars in tattoos on their arms. I have also heard that players get small stipends to cover their laundry and incidentals.

Swag One of the guys I ran track with also played basketball for the University of Cincinnati. He showed me the watch all the guys got from the hosts of a holiday tournament they played in. That didn't even count all the other shit these guys pocket at these games. In addition, the team swag, warm ups, shoes, tickets etc. counts for a boat load of money if you had to buy it out of pocket.

Tax Free Wrap your mind around the total income you would have to earn as a private citizen to cover the costs of all this? AFTER TAXES.

This would take a parent a couple hundred thousand dollars a year, after tax, to cover the tab.

I was telling a friend last night, these guys better be careful what they wish for. This ruling only applies to football scholarship athletes. 

Football already gives AD's Title IX shit fits. Don't be surprised if schools don't just drop football scholarships all together.

My next audit defense

"What they want is something that's going to take years to produce,"

Who did he vote for?

So do you think the guy who thinks it's OK to pepper spray a professor is a democrat or a republican? Did he vote for Obama or Romney? Who is the party that is inciting violence against citizens? Ask the Koch brothers.

Braley Scoffs: Grassley Just An Iowa Farmer Who Never Went To Law School

Rep. Gowdy Questions IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about IRS Targeting ...

Democrats 3...... Republicans -0-

Charlotte Mayor indicted for corruption

NY assemblyman's office raided by the feds

CA state senator charged with wire fraud...........

Want to take a guess on what political party these folks are from.

You'll almost have to guess because the articles barely mention them.

Who's going to pay for my rights

So let me make sure I have this correct.

If Hobby Lobby wants doesn't want to pay for Sandra Fluke's birth control, they are denying her a right.

So does that mean if Sandra Fluke refuses to buy me a gun, is she denying me a right?

The only difference between the two is that one is actually in the US Constitution, the other isn't.

Obamacare Promises: Then vs. Now

The 2nd Amendment

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Rep. Gowdy's Defense of the ENFORCE the Law Act

Econ 101

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So let me make sure I have this right. Before Obamacare, young people didn't want to by insurance because they didn't see the risks involved with getting sick.

But by increasing the price for young people, they will see that they need health insurance and therefore more likely to buy a product that more expensive.

Did anyone ever vet this douchebag's econ grades if he even took a course in it?

In 2012, Clinton Attacked Romney's Russia Comments, Called Russia "Ally"

Life in "Progress" City - Detroit edition

Authorities are investigating after a woman’s body was found inside her vehicle in metro Detroit, and neighbors are saying she might have been there for several years.

The reportedly mummified body of a woman in her 40s was found in the back of a Jeep Liberty, parked in the garage of her home on Savanna Drive, near Walton Boulevard and Silver Lake Road in Pontiac.

A contractor made the discovery Wednesday while working at the home, which is going through foreclosure.

more......

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Obama violated his own rules with Yemen drone strike

Life in "Progress" City - Austin edition

When hitting up jaywalkers is your most important crime.

The truth about minimum wage

So the Obamunists want to increase the minimum  wage to $10.10 an hour.

My question is what makes $10.10 the magic number? Why not 10.08? or 10.14? or $28.00/hr? or 60.00?

If raising the minimum wage doesn't increase unemployment, let's raise it to where everyone is rich.


Regardless, let's assume that you are a single mom slinging hash at a local diner for minimum wage (for the record most states minimums are higher than the 7.25/hr).

Let's do the wage calculation.

If she works 2000 hours a year earning 7.25/hr. That puts her at 15,000 a year. Hardly enough to feed a family. None the less, outside of FICA and medicare, that income is tax free.

As a result of her earnings and family size, when Jane Doe files her tax return, she'll get a refund of $7,184. None of which she paid into, and it's all tax free.

This is a result of the Earned Income Credit and refundable child credit

Divide that earned income credit and refundable child credit income by her 2000 hours of work and her hourly wage now becomes $10.84/an hour. Again, mostly tax free.

Now add to that number, subsidized housing, free school breakfasts and lunches, Medicaid, free Obama phones, food stamps, etc. and a truly working person can essentially net $20/hour after tax. All of which she would qualify for because of her diminished earnings.

Who wants to move up the food chain when you would essentially take a pay cut?

We don't need a minimum wage increase, we need to educate the public on the money people already get.

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How to not "manage" the homeless

Believe it or not San Francisco has a homeless problem.......

Last week Supervisor Mark Farrell held a hearing to evaluate the city's 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness in San Francisco. I wasn't able to attend, but I watched the hearing on the SFGov TV channel. (And I'd like my two hours and 47 minutes back, thank you.)

The idea was to see if the plan is working. Spoiler alert - it isn't.

It's not from lack of effort. The city has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past 10 years - this year the Department of Human Services budget alone is $102 million for homelessness. San Francisco has created 2,700 supportive housing units, with 340 more on the way in the next two years. And, since 2004, homeless outreach workers have placed over 9,600 homeless single adults in housing. Obviously, not all of them stay housed, but that's the 10-year total.

The result? In 2005 a city-sponsored count found that there were 6,248 homeless individuals in the city. This year the census found 6,436.

You know how my village in Redville manages our homeless problem? They don't.

Isn't it kind of weird that we don't seem to have one?

But I can guarantee that if our village officials announced a 10 year plan to deal with the homeless, we'd have a homeless problem the very next day.

The cold hard fact is that for many of the homeless, rock bottom isn't too much a bottom when planning enablers prevent them from hitting it. It's more like the fifth floor than the basement.

Maybe we San Francisco needs to ship in our municipal representatives to their city to show them how it's done.... er.... not done.

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Meet an idiot

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How about we don't give a crap

Some writer in The Nation is wondering why conservatives are not weighing in on Michael Sam's announcement that he's gay.

Here's a thought. How about we don't give a shit.

Somewhere along the line liberals have held this belief that because your anti gay marriage, you're somehow anti gay.

The truth of the matter most conservatives don't give a shit what happens in your bedroom anymore than you care about what happens in mine. Does Dave Zirin, the writer of this piece, want to hear about how I'm attracted to short, Asian girls with giant fake boobs, partial to the reverse cowgirl position, maybe a golden shower here or there, or even an occasional Cincinnati steamer? (For the record....maybe none or all of these really apply)

My guess.......... he isn't.

I couldn't care less who Michael Sams has sex with.

Just to satisfy Mr. Zirin curiosity, here's partial list of people who I don't care to know about their sex lives.

Billy Joel
Mitch McConnell
Bristol Palin
Hillary Clinton
Joan Jett
Buzz Aldren
Apollo Ono (actually, you can add the whole Subway endorsement crew)
Dan Marino
Richie Sambora
Bruce Dern
Laura Dern
Dave Zirin


The list goes on and on.................

Just because I'm against gay marriage doesn't mean I have some infatuation with whom people are doing the dirty with. I DON'T CARE.

But for some reason, Michael Sams and Dave Zirin feel that it's real important to push it my face and demand that I approve. Again, the dirty little secret I'll let Dave in on is that most people are indifferent. They don't care because it's not in their personal version of Housewives of Redville.

THEY DON'T CARE.

Since gay marriage seems to be the issue that brings this up. Let me ask a couple of questions.

Exactly, what value does the state actually add to the marital contract that can't be handled between two adults? I've been writing about this for over three years and no one can give me a coherent answer yet.

When the lovely Mrs. Gekko and I got married. We waited in a Warren County bullpen along with every other juvenile delinquent and criminal waiting for someone to call our number so we could record our marriage license.

The whole time we sat there, I couldn't help but wonder why we needed to do that. What freakin' business is it of anyone but ourselves how we want to handle our marital contract?

Oh, it's now a public document which means we get shit loads of junk mail looking to target a couple of newlyweds. That's pretty important.

Now my stalker ex-wife can track me down via those same public records to find out where I live. That's freakin' real important.
 
Or when/if we decide to divorce in a no fault divorce state I guess we need something of record to dissolve something that had no value to the state in the first place (hence why make it dissolving it no fault). That's pretty important.

If you are going to allow gays to marry, what justification do you not allow polygamists to marry?

Why shouldn't cousins be able to marry? Siblings for that matter?

How do you tell a 14 year old girl she can't marry her 40 year old Spanish teacher? After all, nature says she's ready to bear children so shouldn't she be allowed to marry.

If any of those scenarios creep you out, aren't you every bit as guilty of prejudice that you accuse gay marriage opponents of?

Once again, I want to be a proponent of "Don't ask, Don't tell".  I won't ask Phyliss Schlafly who she's into, and I'm pretty sure she won't ask me. Michael Sams has the same status.

Dr. Jonathan Turley

Out of curiosity, let's assume the next president is a republican who hates Obamacare. Do you think democrats are going to have a shit fit when that president unilaterally suspends Obamacare forever?

Who are the racists?

The conventional wisdom is that those conservative, southern, republican, hillbillies are racist.

Maybe you should take the words of a black man to tell you different.........

“The worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, [were] by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia,”

The words of one Clarence Thomas.

Growing up, I vividly remember watching the evening news to witness the violence in one U.S. city when forced busing was thrust upon the community.

Guess what? That city wasn't Birmingham. It wasn't Atlanta. It wasn't Memphis. It was Boston, where the population is about 90% democratic and about a gazillion miles north of the Mason Dixon line.

Watch this video and you tell me how open minded your average liberal is.

DOE's Julio Friedmann on cost of CCS technologies

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The Battle to Raise the Minimum Wage Explained by Obama

The 80-20 principle - Crime edition

Most cops will tell you that the spend 80 percent of their time dealing with 20 percent of criminals.

We could lighten their burden if we kept most of these clowns behind bars in the first place.....
 

One week before police say he took part in a deadly carjacking at the Short Hills mall, Hanif Thompson was spotted breaking into property in Newark, getting into an Audi and trying to drive away, Essex County prosecutors say.

Newark police caught Thompson near the Weequahic Avenue property on Dec. 7 and charged him with burglary and resisting arrest, prosecutors say.

He remained locked up at the Essex County Jail through Dec. 11 when, prosecutors say, the ex-con was released after a Newark Municipal Court judge reduced his bail from $50,000 to $20,000 with the option of paying $2,000 or 10 percent of the total, court records show.

Four days later, Hoboken lawyer Dustin Friedland was dead, the victim of an attack Essex County prosecutors say was carried out by Thompson and three other Newark men with lengthy criminal records — Kevin Roberts, 35; Basim Henry, 32; and Karif Ford, 31.

It was not the first time Thompson, 29, found himself back in trouble after being locked up.

Prosecutors say Thompson has tallied seven felony convictions as an adult and twice jumped bail by missing court appearances. He’s served two multi-year stints in state prisons over the past decade, the first a four-year hitch for drugs, the second a three-year term for stealing a Subaru Impreza from a Livingston home in 2009, court records show. And he was sent back to prison for eight months in 2010 after he violated his parole, records show.

SEVEN FREAKIN FELONIES BEFORE THE AGE OF 29! Not even counting his latest resume enhancer.

Now ask yourself the question. Is it the repressive policies of the republicans that kept these derelicts on the streets?

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How government programs increase income disparity

Because it allows businesses to overcharge where it wouldn't a truly free market system. And who owns businesses. Hint... It ain't poor guys....................

But don't take my word for it. Read the headline.....

Wal-Mart Stores warned Friday that cuts to the nation's food stamps program late last year will hurt its bottom line.

The cut in food stamps went into effect Nov. 1. Food stamps had been increased during the height of the recession, but that expansion expired without Congressional action.

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Who did she vote for? #812

Meet Amy Glass.

There's no visual but after reading this you'll get a pretty good picture of her.......

Do people really think that a stay at home mom is really on equal footing with a woman who works and takes care of herself? There’s no way those two things are the same. It’s hard for me to believe it’s not just verbally placating these people so they don’t get in trouble with the mommy bloggers.
Having kids and getting married are considered life milestones. We have baby showers and wedding parties as if it’s a huge accomplishment and cause for celebration to be able to get knocked up or find someone to walk down the aisle with. These aren’t accomplishments, they are actually super easy tasks, literally anyone can do them. They are the most common thing, ever, in the history of the world. They are, by definition, average. And here’s the thing, why on earth are we settling for average?

If women can do anything, why are we still content with applauding them for doing nothing?
I want to have a shower for a woman when she backpacks on her own through Asia, gets a promotion, or lands a dream job not when she stays inside the box and does the house and kids thing which is the path of least resistance. The dominate cultural voice will tell you these are things you can do with a husband and kids, but as I’ve written before, that’s a lie. It’s just not reality.
You will never have the time, energy, freedom or mobility to be exceptional if you have a husband and kids.

So in the last election did this sweetie vote for Obama or Romney.

Where's the real war on women coming from?

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Are we surprised?

You can call me a paranoid crank. But seriously, should we be surprised by these brown shirt attacks on Christians when clowns like Governor Cuomo makes a public statement that anti abortion foes are not welcome in their state? When the IRS attacks conservative groups? When prosecutors in Wisconsin storm trooper their way into people's homes and confiscate computers? This is the side benefit of our elected official's actions...... link here A long time ago I heard Dennis Prager state that the world is in a three way struggle for power. One of those factions is Islamic, fascist, dictatorships. Another faction are Humanist, Euro socialist, democracies and the last are Judeo-Christian, free market, republics. People in the Judeo Christian faiths have been passive about pushing their beliefs on others. We we all better wake up because these others are working hard to extinguish us off the face of the earth. It's not like Andrew Cuomo kept the secret.

Where was she?

Most of us already know this

But how about the White House press pool exposing it.............

He has no famous chums in Congress. He has few relationships of any sort with lawmakers. Really what he wants to do is make his decisions in the Oval Office, have a few meetings, give some speeches on college campuses and at high schools, and play golf. And then send Jay Carney out to talk about how Republicans are intransigent, politically motivated hacks who don’t even wear deodorant.

Well, yes, the Congress was in fact designed to include people committed to principles and also worried about getting reelected. The trick is to use various carrots and sticks to get them to do you bidding.

The grunt work of legislating is not for him. That’s why he passed through the Illinois legislature and the United States Senate leaving not a trace of evidence he was ever there.

As I’ve mentioned before, I covered both the Clinton and Bush White Houses. Routinely, with each of them, there was line of cars on the West Wing driveway belonging to members of some committee or faction of Congress that had dropped by to meet the president. If they wanted the gathering to remain below the radar, they “snuck in” the side door, and then the camera guys who were always in a position where they could see the entrance there told us about it.

With Obama, almost never. Nothing. No meetings. If you ask around on Capitol Hill, no phone calls either. Obama, expostulating about the uncooperativeness of Republicans, does nothing to get them to cooperate. It’s not in his character. And then he attacks them for his own paucity of results. He’s like a high school football player who never comes to practice and then whines that he’s warming the bench.

What would you expect from a guy who never had a real job?

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President Billary

One of the things that blows me away is our media's incredible loss of short term memory. Even on the stories they cover...........

Time magazine’s cover this week asks, “Can Anyone Stop Hillary?” The answer to that question is yes, but you’d never know it judging by the overwhelming belief among Democratic insiders that the party’s 2016 presidential nomination is simply Hillary Clinton’s for the asking.

Let's flashback to this same election cycle point in 2006. Who exactly was the can't lose candidate back then?

If you can remember that oh so long ago, it was the Billary. In fact, no one had even heard of this empty suit we currently have in the White House.

The only pol that was within a can of hair spray from her was John Edwards.

So what if Cory Booker runs this next cycle. How inevitable will the Billary be?

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The JV president

Kind of funny that a guy who couldn't play varsity basketball for a Hawaii school would make this JV comment.

In his New Yorker interview published over the weekend, President Obama stated that current Al Qaeda was “jayvee” – and said that his analogy was often used around the White House. “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama said. He then added, “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”

Trust me. We know this metaphor all to well. You can place an idiot in the Whitehouse but that doesn't make him a president.

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The education president

If I were to ask the question "which party will do more to make education more affordable for working people?"

What would your answer be?

Check that against Mr. Education himself, Barack Obama...............

As a candidate and for the duration of his administration, President Barack Obama has persistently insisted that affordable higher education is among his top priorities.
Even today at his “grassroots” website, Organizing for Action (Barackobama.com), Obama lists affordable education as the second of six principles for “securing the American dream and strengthening the middle class.” Specifically, the president seeks to provide “a quality education that doesn’t break the bank” and to “rein in the cost of college for families by rewarding quality schools that make higher education affordable.”
So how is it going?

It’s a disastrous failure.
According to the College Board, the average cost for tuition, room and board at four-year colleges and universities has increased 28 percent during Obama’s presidency.
The average cost of tuition, room and board at private four-year colleges and universities has increased 27.89 percent — from $31,993 during the 2008-2009 academic year to $40,917 this year.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/22/obama-fails-miserably-in-quest-to-provide-education-that-doesnt-break-the-bank/#ixzz2rE2mWtDC

Barack O'Christie

Somehow the media will fail to report on this act of retribution by the Obamunists...........

A House Natural Resources Committee investigation has found that President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget ordered that sequestration cuts be applied retroactively to funding for rural schools over the opposition of the Agriculture Department.

The committee’s report released today, “A Less Secure Future for Rural Schools: An Investigation into the Obama Administration’s Questionable Application of the Sequester to the Secure Rural Schools Program,” detailed how last February the USDA had determined 2013 sequestration wouldn’t apply to 2012 funds that had already been distributed in the program. The White House stepped in and overruled the USDA, though both agencies haven’t turned over numerous subpoenaed documents that could reveal more behind the decision.

The Secure Rural Schools program helps provide rural counties with funds for teachers, schools, police officers, emergency services and infrastructure — “necessary because the federal government had failed to uphold its century-old promise to actively manage our national forest to provide a stable revenue stream for rural counties containing national forest land,” Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) said in reference to the timber industry link.

The program dates back to a 2000 bill, which was extended in July 2012 for that fiscal year. The $323 million in funds were doled out to 41 states by the USDA in January 2013. But two months later, after sequestration went into effect, the Obama administration announced it wanted $17.9 million back — prompting bipartisan backlash from governors and congressional representatives of the affected states.

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While we're talking about judging

Hall of Fames have been in the news lately.

Let's start with the rock and roll hall of fame. Linda Ronstadt? Seriously? Linda Ronstadt was a cute karaoke singer. Many of her hits were cover songs. She wrote hardly anything. Exactly how was rock and roll advanced, changed or altered as a result of her career?

Cat Stevens? a couple of top en hits puts you in the hall of fame?

I think it's getting clear that there are way too many people in the rock and roll hall of fame.

Baseball.

In my wildest dreams, I can't imagine how a DH gets into the hall of fame. Seriously, consider that you are considered one of the top players in the history of the game, and you don't have enough talent to play the field on a mediocre baseball team?

My criteria for the baseball hall of fame has always been lifetime stats but also the criteria of were you the best player at your position in your era. I guess Frank Thomas was the preeminent player at a position not even recognized by half the league.

If you judge it, it's not a sport

I have a recurring debate with my bubbas as to what is and is not a sport.

In my mind, any competition where there's an objective, measurable, score, time, height, weight, etc. counts as a sport.

If you have to judge it? Not a sport.

That eliminates nearly every X-game exhibition where reputation makes up 75% of the score.

It also eliminates figure skating, where judging results rival boxing in corrupt scoring.

Seriously, why even have a competition as to who makes the Olympic team, if you're not going to follow the results..........

The names on the U.S. Olympic figure skating team were still supposed to be a secret, so Ashley Wagner slipped under the stands to cry.

Hours after a performance she described as a "tearful little wimp out on the ice," the two-time national champion was picked to go to the Sochi Games. She finished a distant fourth at the U.S. Championships on Saturday night, and only three American women make the Olympics. But this event isn't the only criteria U.S. Figure Skating takes into account.

"If you look at Ashley Wagner's record and performance, she's got the top credentials of any of our female athletes," said the organization's president, Patricia St. Peter.

For those who say, "Gee Gordon, figure skating is hard", I say so is spitting a watermelon seed 50 feet.

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Life in "Progress" City - Cleveland edition

This just never gets old.

Life in "Progress" City - Detroit edition

Christie sets the tone

A number of years ago, one of my clients bought a metal fabricating company and he asked me to train the bookkeeper on the accounting software we set up.

One day, the bookkeeper was opening the mail when she she made the proclamation that one of their customers over paid their invoice by $6,000. She proclaimed that she was going to deposit the money and wait for them to ask for the overpayment back.

My client overheard her and he stop right in his tracks and told her "We will not do business that way. Send them a check for the overpayment today."

In that instance, he set the tone for how he wanted to do business.

The same is true for Christ Christie. He may not have had any knowledge of who did what and when, but what is it about his character that had one of his advisers think that it was totally OK for them to pull that kind of stunt.

Hint, because they know how Christie operates. In the Godfather, did Michael Corleone have to say, "take out my brother"?

The same is true of the FBI, Benghazi and IRS scandals. Obama didn't have to issue the order, his plebs know how he rolls.

Trust me, the aides that took the fall for Christie will inevitably end up in a campaign for one of his buddies and be rolling as if nothing happened.

that's how government rolls........

Jennifer Wexton for State Senate TV Ad "Stand Up"

who did she vote for? #119

Meet Jennifer McCarthy

Why is she in the news?

As detailed in a probable cause statement, Jennifer McCarthy, a 48-year-old artist [clearly -Ed], argued about space aliens with her 53-year-old beau, whose name was redacted from the document released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. When questioned by deputies, McCarthy reportedly acknowledged that she “did have a gun at the time” the couple was yelling at each other.

McCarthy’s boyfriend told investigators that following the argument McCarthy departed her Aventura Road residence. Upon returning to the home, he told deputies, McCarthy went into her bedroom and later emerged “wearing lingerie and a silver handgun in her vagina.” She then proceeded to “have inner course with the gun,” according to the court fling.

While using the gat as a sex toy, McCarthy reportedly asked her boyfriend, “Who is crazy, you or me?”

After removing the gun from her vagina, McCarthy pointed it at her boyfriend’s head, investigators charge. Fearing that he could get shot, the man grabbed the weapon from McCarthy and put it in the toilet.

 

 

 So in the last election, did Ms. McCarthy vote for The One or The Mormon?

 

 

Read more: http://www.uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2014/01/cormac-mccarthys-ex-arrested-brandishing-gun-pulled-vagina-dispute-aliens/#ixzz2pukD8naN

Who will he vote for?

Meet a toddler being educated by his parents.

Warning horrble language



So will Jr. here be a democrat or a republican when reaches the age of majority?

How did the parents vote?

Why I'm pro death penalty - ask the Burke family

I'm often asked my position on the death penalty. I am pro death penalty because I believe that society has an obligation to protect people from certain criminals who are clearly a threat to others.

Now your average anti death penalty citizen would counter with throwing the inmates into jail forever with no possibility of parole.

What they fail to realize is that these people continue to be a threat to others inside and outside of the prison community.  Don't inmates and corrections officers deserve protections from these animals as well as the general population?

And if you believe that these guys don't continue to be a threat to others while in prison let me introduce you to the Burke family.

Who are they?

 A Florida inmate was executed Tuesday for fatally stabbing a prison guard with a sharpened spoon while on death row for abducting and killing a Miami couple.

Askari Abdullah Muhammad, previously known as Thomas Knight, was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, the governor's office said. The execution took place in the same prison where Muhammad killed corrections officer Richard Burke in 1980.

"This is where my dad took his last breath," said the slain guard's daughter, 47-year-old Carolyn Burke Thompson. She was among several family members who witnessed the execution and could be seen crying in the front row as it was carried out.

"The system finally has worked. I am at peace knowing I don't have to wait any longer. I miss my dad a lot," she said.

Muhammad, 62, was initially condemned to die for the 1974 abduction and killings of Sydney and Lillian Gans of Miami. Tuesday's execution was specifically for Burke's killing.

There are few things I know with 100% certainty and one of those is that Askari Muhammad will kill no more.


Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/breaking-news/2014-01-08/story/florida-executes-askari-abdullah-muhammad-thomas-knight-killing-guard#ixzz2pqJZ1lxa

Let's surrender

So how's the war on poverty working out 50 years into the battle?

This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s proclamation of a “war on poverty,” and the progress in this theater has not been encouraging. Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the number of Americans living in poverty is higher today than it was in 1964, while the poverty rate has held steady at just under one in five. That contrasts unpleasantly with the trend before President Johnson declared his war: The poverty rate had been dropping since the end of World War II. That progress came to a halt as President Johnson’s expensive and expansive vision began to be implemented in earnest, which coincided with the tapering of the postwar boom. By the 1970s, the poverty rate was headed upward. It declined a bit during the Reagan years, crested and receded again in the 1990s, and resumed its melancholy ascent around the turn of the century.

To understand the failure of the war on poverty requires understanding its structure, which itself is bound up in the idiosyncrasies of Lyndon Johnson’s politics. President Johnson played many parts in his political career: Southern ballast to John Kennedy’s buoyant Yankee idealism; an enemy of civil-rights reform and anti-lynching laws who reversed himself in 1964; a sometimes reluctant but in the end unshakeable Cold Warrior. But at heart President Johnson was a New Deal man, and his Great Society, of which the war on poverty was a critical component, was his attempt to resuscitate the spirit and the political success of Franklin Roosevelt’s program.

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Life in "Progress" Country- France edition

Since the arrival of Socialist President François Hollande in 2012, income tax and social security contributions in France have skyrocketed. The top tax rate is 75 percent, and a great many pay in excess of 70 percent.

As a result, there has been a frantic bolt for the border by the very people who create economic growth – business leaders, innovators, creative thinkers, and top executives. They are all leaving France to develop their talents elsewhere.

And it’s a tragedy for such a historically rich country. As they say, the problem with the French is they have no word for entrepreneur. Where is the Richard Branson of France? Where is the Bill Gates?

“Do you see that man in the corner? I’m going to kill him. He’s ruined my life!”

This angry outburst came from a lawyer friend who is leaving France to move to Britain to escape the 70 percent tax he pays. He says he is working like a dog for nothing – to hand out money to the profligate state. 

The man he was pointing to, in a swanky Japanese restaurant in the Sixth Arrondissement, is Pierre Moscovici, the much-loathed minister of finance. Moscovici was looking very happy with himself. Does he realize Rome is burning?

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