You either pay attention or pay through the nose. I would rather pay attention.
Watch this video. No this is not a bunch of “tea baggers” (i.e. Tea Party members). This is a rally held by left wing group Code Pink whose slogan is “women for peace”. They don’t sound so peaceful.
But for some reason the perception is that it is the right of the political spectrum calling for violence.
WARNING: This is truly offensive video.
I just have to say that if this group ever gets traction, we are all OfficiallyScrewed.
Stuart Varney used this graphic today. (I cellphone snapped a photo of the screen to produce the image below). It compares two presidents, Reagan and Obama, both of whom inherited recessions and high unemployment. The blue line indicates unemployment rates under Reagan’s presidency and the red line under Obama’s.
Varney was clear that the difference between the two is that Reagan focussed on private sector revitalization and Obama has been focussed on public sector stimulus.
Very interesting. (click image to view larger version)
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In an unprecedented successful stimulus story, the glorious city of angels has created or retained a whopping 55 jobs!
“I’m disappointed that we’ve only created or retained 55 jobs after receiving $111 million,” said Wendy Greuel, the city’s controller.
For you math buffs out there, that’s just a little over $2,000,000 per job created.
So why do I feel that this is a success and not a complete and utter failure?
Because L.A. is full of movie stars and musicians. Even Forbes states that from 2008 to 2009 the top 15 celebrities earned a combined and astronomical $1.6 BILLION, thus averaging almost $107 Million per person. So $2 Million per job seems like a bargain doesn’t it? Well doesn’t it??
Now the next time you see a famous star slamming the politics of the right and promoting the politics of the left, pay attention. They make a sick amount of dough compared to you and they know better than you.
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Could they not have just paid each of these 55 bozos $100,000 each and saved $105.5 Million?
American Tax Payers … OfficiallyScrewed … again.
Missouri held a referendum on Proposition C, which challenges the federal law making it illegal to not have health insurance and to penalize people who do not. The referendum wasn’t even close. 71.1% of people voted for Prop C which sets up a legal challenge from Missouri to Obamacare.
This must be pretty alarming for the Obama Administration as we head into the last 90 days before the fall midterms.
Virginia’s fight against health care reform to go to court.
They also seem to be supporting Arizona’s stance on enforcing immigration laws.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is having quite a day. As Todd Gaziano explains, a federal district court denied the U.S. Justice Department’s request that the court dismiss the lawsuit Cuccinelli filed on behalf of the citizens of Virginia against the unconstitutional mandates in Obamacare.
News also broke today that Cuccinelli issued an official advisory opinion on July 30 that was another shot across the bow of the Obama Administration in the ongoing fight over enforcement of federal immigration laws.
In response to an inquiry from a state representative, Cuccinelli advised all Virginia law enforcement officers that, just like Arizona police officers, they can “inquire into the immigration status of persons stopped or arrested.” Moreover, local officers can arrest any individual who has “violated a criminal law of the United States, including a criminal violation of the immigration laws.”
Bravo Ken Cuccinelli!!
Two reasons.
1) They are so short on cash that now they have mandatory unpaid furloughs of 3 days per month for most government positions.
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2) At least Ontario got off easy saying “Rae Days”. Californians now have to say “Schwarzenegger Days”.
White House reports it borrows 37 cents of every dollar it spends.
(Note, I first heard the number 41 cents and after a few searches this is the smallest number I could find.)
The term OfficiallyScrewed doesn’t do this one justice. Nor would a write up.
From the department of the completely ridiculous and asinine, U.S. Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi actually says that the fastest way to get an unemployed person a job is to give them an unemployment insurace cheque.
You can’t make this stuff up. My working American friends and family are getting OfficiallyScrewed.
When I was a young man still in University I was offered my first credit card. It was a GM VISA with a $500 spending limit. Considering I didn’t have $500 to my name and summer was coming I was ecstatic that I would be able to load up my tackle box and pick up a carton or two of smokes. Although not necessities to the average person, they seemed like they were necessities to me.
So I cautiously ran up a bit of a tab on the card. Then the inevitable bill came. Sure it showed me a minimum payment which was a bit of reassurance. I wouldn’t have to pay the whole thing off at once. But little did I realize that that small monthly payment was coming right off the top of my income. Why? Because I chose to spend something I didn’t have.
Well governments around the world are doing it now. Forget extreme hyperbole such as “spending like drunken sailors”. Expressions like this make it sound like we are just exaggerating. Well the truth is they are spending like unsure, unaware teenagers with their first credit cards. They don’t realize that pulling more out of the taxpayers is like that teenager trying to find a job in a down economy. The potential to pay back that debt is there, but the economic conditions to allow that to happen are just not there. And the more we run up the debt the harder it will be to dig ourselves out.
That’s it. I don’t have any links on this. Just the anology and the request that everyone out there contact the politicians representing them at all levels of government and simply ask them to spend within their means. Do NOT extend their means to accommodate how much they want to spend.
Sir Paul McCartney, the man who has more money than brains (just ask his ex-wife Heather Mills), made this remark the other night.
McCartney thanked the audience and noted how nice it was to receive the award from the Library of Congress, and “in fact, after the last eight years it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is.”
Let’s compare.
Elementary School
George W. Bush – Yes
Paul McCartney – Yes
Secondary School
George W. Bush – Yes
Paul McCartney – Yes
College/University
George W. Bush – Yes (Yale)
Paul McCartney – No
Business School
George W. Bush – Yes (Harvard no less and the ONLY U.S. President to have earned an MBA)
Paul McCartney – No
Marriage classes?
George W. Bush (not sure but he’s still married to his sweetheart and probably treats her like gold)
Paul McCartney – Probably not but he sure knows how to pay through the nose for a divorce.
Sir Paul should be a bit more careful with his wise cracks.