Liberal Wants To Starve The Red States
Jun 9, 2011 Political
A liberal talk show host named Thom Hartmann wants the federal government to starve red states of federal dollars in order to force their leaders to raise the debt ceiling. Citing a letter from a past debt ceiling battle, Hartmann reveals that the Treasury Secretary has the authority to decide who gets paid when the federal government cannot borrow money (as is the case right now).
Hartmann said that Secretary Geithner, on orders from Obama, should tell Republicans from red states that their states will be cut off from federal dollars and the blue states will get paid and that he should carry that out until the red state politicians capitulate and raise the debt ceiling. His thought is, no more highway funds or anything else that the federal government pays for until they roll over and take it from Obama.
Well, how would this work out? Since the states collect gas taxes and send them to the feds perhaps the states would stop sending the money. Don’t pay us, we don’t send in the money. Perhaps the states would stop sending any money to the federal government and people in those states would stop paying their taxes. Why be forced to pay if your money is not spent on you or your state?
Perhaps the red states, where most of our agriculture is, would tell the feds; fine, you want to starve us financially, we will starve you literally. Then those states could pass laws saying they will only allow their food goods to be sold to other red states. Once the blue states (and all of DC) have starved to death, we could just take over.
Then again, perhaps all the gun toting, Bible loving, flyover, backwoods hicks Obama and his ilk hate so much would form up and go to DC and TAKE the money. While they would have little resistance to begin with if we starve them first it would be a cake walk.
I know this liberal was spouting off without thinking (shock there) and was probably trying to get some attention (I mean, who has ever heard of him) so I doubt his idea has much merit and would never be implemented. Imagine all the Constitutional challenges this would entail. Imagine how upset a lot of people would be and imagine how Democrats would be routed in the next election.
No more blue states, no more liberals.
Yeah liberal moron, bring it on.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: blue state, federal funds, lies, moron, red state
Maryland Democrats Want Us To Pay For Their Malfeasance
May 1, 2011 Political
Maryland has a transportation trust fund that taxes collected from the sale of gasoline (and other items) go in to and the money is supposed to cover the cost of repairing bridges and roads. Unfortunately, this trust fund has become a slush fund for the Democrats in Maryland. This fund has been raided for years to cover budget shortfalls. Instead of actually doing things in a responsible manner, the Democrats insist on adding more and more programs that give taxpayer money to one social welfare program or another and then use money from other sources (like the transportation fund) to pay for them.
The state is in a financial mess and the Democrats used billions of dollars from the trust fund to pay for stupidity and mismanagement. Now that they have completely screwed up our finances and mismanaged the money they already collected from us, they have a plan on how to make up the trust fund shortfall.
They are Democrats so you know what it is. They want to raise taxes. Maryland imposes a 23.5 cent per gallon tax on gasoline and Democrats want to add 12 more cents to that increasing it to 35.5 cents a gallon. As if Obama’s energy policies driving gasoline up to the $4.00 a gallon mark are not bad enough, Maryland wants to add more pain at the pump.
This gas tax increase was introduced during the legislative session but it went nowhere, in large part because of rising gas prices. But now, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is looking at a special session in order to raise the gas taxes. He promised he would not raise taxes but it looks like that is a promise that will be broken and this broken promise will hurt all the folks who voted for him. The poor folks who live off the taxpayer are still going to have to fork over more money to fill their gas tanks. Hope it feels good folks.
As for the transportation trust fund, it seems to me that it is the height of arrogance for politicians to take our money and direct it to a fund for a specific purpose and then use that money for everything except what it was intended for and then claim it needs to raise taxes to make up for the malfeasance. We paid you once and you had the money. Why should we have to pay more to make up for your mismanagement?
O’Malley says that people generally oppose a tax increase on gasoline but when the roads are bad enough they might not mind paying. I don’t care how bad the roads get, I don’t want them to raise taxes on gasoline. Get rid of all the programs that the state has to pay our money to illegal aliens and we might have enough to fix the roads.
The legislators are promising that they will not use the new money for anything else. That is what they were supposed to do the last time.
They can change the rules anytime they want and they will do whatever they want regardless of the rules.
If they followed the rules the transportation trust fund would not be out of money.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Hoyer Laments The Hole He Helped Dig
Mar 9, 2011 Political
House Minority Whip (and moron from Maryland) Steny Hoyer said that we might not get the budget balanced for twenty years because we have dug ourselves a deep hole. The article quotes Hoyer as saying we went from a 5.6 trillion dollar surplus into a 5 trillion dollar hole. The article inserted the appropriate word after surplus, “projected”.
The alleged budget surplus never existed. It was a projection based on a number of gimmicks and based upon Congress doing certain things and taking certain actions, none of which they did. Even in the years where it is claimed that we had a budget surplus we had billions in debt so we were not out of any hole. To be clear, there was no Bill Clinton budget surplus but if you want to believe there was a surplus please be sure to credit it to the Republican Congress because they were in the majority.
Regardless, Hoyer has never met a spending bill that he did not like (or a tax he did not hike). He has been in office for a very long time and he has voted for all the spending that contributed to the problems we have but he is just now realizing that a problem exists.
It is amazing how Democrats become budget hawks when they are not in power but spend and spend and spend when they are in control. In any event, we can balance the budget in fewer than twenty years (or even ten) if the people in Congress will sit down and CUT the unnecessary spending and the waste. They also need to reform Social Security and Medicare which, along with unemployment insurance account for 35% of what we spend.
Younger people need to be allowed to invest their own money and gradually stop paying into Social Security and people who are closer to retirement need to be able to choose to either stay in it or get their money back and invest on their own (or some combination of these). Social Security needs to eventually go away and be replaced by a system where people have their money go to accounts that belong to them, cannot EVER be touched by government and can be passed on to their heirs when they die.
There are plenty of cuts that can be made and plenty of programs (many of which exist in multiples) that can be downsized, combined or eliminated to get our fiscal house in order.
If Hoyer is concerned about the hole that Congress (and that means people of all parties) have dug then he needs to get on board with the Republicans and push for the cuts so that we can get back to sanity.
We cannot spend our way to prosperity. If spending made us solvent we would be having high times because government has done nothing but spend.
The people in Hoyer’s District should have elected Charles Lollar. They were too busy suckling at the teat…
Cave Canem!
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Tags: balanced budget, lies, Maryland, moron, spending, steny hoyer
Bring It On Farrakhan
Feb 28, 2011 Political
Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, has predicted that America will have uprisings like those happening in the Middle East. Farrakhan said that we had better prepare because it is coming to our door. Then the racist leader went on to spew racial hatred toward white people:
… L. Ron Hubbard himself was and is trying to civilize white people and make them better human beings and take away from them their reactive minds … Mr. Hubbard recognized that his people have to be civilized,” Farrakhan said to a cheering crowd. Chicago Breaking News
The statement followed his admiration for L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the so called religion of Scientology.
Imagine if a white guy claimed that some person in the black community was doing whatever in order to civilize black people.
I think that white people are civilized and given the crime statistics involving blacks perhaps Farrakhan should be looking for someone to call on them to be more civil. As for civility, how civil are those who participate in the kind of uprising that Farrakhan predicts will come to our door?
As for those uprisings, Farrakhan had better hope he is wrong. We are very different than the Middle Eastern countries and a lot of armed citizens will put an end to a violent uprising.
And there will be a lot fewer people to stage an “uprising” in the future.
That will be the civil thing to do.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: cicility, louis farrakhan, moron, nation of islam, racism, scientology, uprising
Come On Michigan, Get Rid Of Socialist Conyers
Oct 18, 2010 Political
John Conyers met with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to discuss one world order. In the meeting Conyers says that it is his job and the job of the DSA to push Obama to their agenda and specifically says it is his job to get Obama reelected:
“I see that us making him more cooperative with our plans is going to strengthen him and not weaken him,” Conyers says to applause from the DSA activists.
“Whose job do you think it is to get him straightened out and get him on the right track? Ours! Ours!” Conyers exclaimed to more applause.
~snip~
Promoting the concept of a one-world government, Conyers told those assembled, “We know that when unions, political ideology, clergy, labor, civil rights come together and just people who are progressive enough to see in this one-world concept that we’re all in this together, it makes certain things pretty easy to understand where we are coming from.” WND
There is video of his appearance at the linked article.
This should surprise no one as Conyers has a long history with the DSA. The people of Michigan owe it to the country to bounce this Socialist moron.
Cave Canem!
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Tags: dsa, john conyers, moron, socialist