Dumb and Dumber

Just when you thought liberals couldn't get any dumber comes this from Obama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: "Well, obviously, it's putting people to work. Which is why we're going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we're going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that's never happened in this country -- something that we think is exciting in terms of job growth.

Yes...this really is Obama's Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack...amazing

I should point out, when you talk about the SNAP program or the food stamp program, you have to recognize that it's also an economic stimulus. Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times."

Can Anyone Really Be This Stupid?

At the daily press gaggle at the White House, Obama’s mouth piece Jay Carney got into it with a Wall Street Journal reporter and had this to say about unemployment checks
“It is one of the most direct ways to infuse money directly into the economy because people who are unemployed and obviously aren’t running a paycheck are going to spend the money that they get. They’re not going to save it, they’re going to spend it. And with unemployment insurance, that way, the money goes directly back into the economy, dollar for dollar virtually.”

Following this twisted logic; given all of the people who have been collecting unemployment checks during the Obama presidency, if unemployment checks really did create jobs, then wouldn’t our unemployment rate be below 5% rather than hanging where it’s been for months, above 9%?!

Can anyone really be this stupid?

Oh…wait a minute…then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said this of unemployment benefits back in July of 2010… “It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”

I guess the short answer is…yes…Democrats really can be that stupid!

If unemployment checks really created jobs…then why work? Don’t you want to help the economy?

Real Hope, For a Change…

While I’m certainly not holding my breath for much to come of the so-called “super-committee” that is tasked with hashing out a debt deal, at least there is some good news as Sen. Mitch McConnell has named Pennsylvania’s junior senator, Pat Toomey to the Republican team.

Toomey is a real deal, small government, conservative with solid credentials on the finance side of things including a stint as the president of the Club for Growth. Toomey is joined in the Republican senate contingent by relatively reliable Arizona Sen. John Kyl and Rob Portman of Ohio. Portman is a guy who cut his teeth on economic issues as a member of the House of Representatives, then moving to the Bush 43 White House. Portman was a close ally of former Erie Congressman Phil English.

The Democrat contingent from the senate is comprised of usual suspect, lightweights including; John Kerry, who “fought” in Viet Nam and has made it his life’s practice to spend other people’s money, Max Baucus of Montana, and Patty “Empty Suit” Murray of Washington. Intellectual firepower is not a term I would use to describe the Democrat lineup.

Rounding out the Republican team is House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp of Michigan and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton of Michigan. Upton was the genius responsible for putting out the legislation banning the incandescent light bulb, so I can’t say I have high hopes for him to hold the line on tax increases and slashing spending.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi….sorry…I still like the sound of that so much I need to say it again…House minority leader Nancy Pelosi apparently has some pressing Botox treatments she needs to get taken care of before announcing her choices, she has until August 16 to make her picks. Wonder if they will include a member of the Congressional Black Caucus?

Baltimore Mayoral Candidate Proposes Increase in Crime

It’s is an age old political practice for candidates for office to talk about their plan to deal with violent crime, but a Baltimore, Democrat, Mayoral candidate has a visionary plan that amounts to proposing an increase in crime!

Otis Rolley has rolled out The Rolley Plan to Make Every Neighborhood in Baltimore Safer, an eight page manifesto that includes the cornerstone plan “to impose a $1 per bullet tax (or about $50 per pack).” The genius of Mr. Rolley’s plan reasons that the tax “will increase substantially the financial cost of committing a crime and, unlike guns, bullets cannot be shared after their initial use.” Pretty tough to argue the reuse point…even with Rolley’s habit of referring to himself in the third person throughout the document!

Like most mind-numbed gun control types, Mr. Rolley deludes himself into thinking that average dirt bag criminals all head down to their local gun shop or sporting goods store and fill out all of the government forms and get the necessary clearances and permits to purchase a gun and therefore would head to said weapons purveyor to dutifully pay the buck a bullet tax before committing a crime spree. Since the pack of bullets now features an excessive government tax, the crime problem is solved! Much like the delusional democrats who think you can tax your way to prosperity, this nitwit thinks you can tax your way to safety!

In reality, what this moronic plan will do is make it more expensive for actual law abiding, gun owners to purchase ammunition that they can use to defend themselves from scumbags who want to do them harm! The result will be an increase in violent crime, because the criminals, who more often than not steal their guns and ammunition, will realize that it’s less likely that the potential victim will be less likely to be able to defend themselves!

The problem with Liberal thinking often ends up being the unintended consequences of the actions they take. Eco-geniuses had us ban DDT use in 1972 to allegedly protect endangered species; and the unintended consquences include by some estimates tens of thousands of deaths do to malaria.

Hopefully Mr. Rolley’s political career will amount to a failed run for Mayor, so we don’t have to start a countdown on the unintended deaths caused by his ridiculous plan.

Common Sense Vs. Politi-speak

I love politi-speak. More often than not politi-speak comes about when liberal politicians need to use words to fashion a more voter friendly message. As the debate over raising the debate ceiling continues to rage we have been inundated by calls from President Obama and what passes as leadership of the Democrat party for a solution that includes;“an increase in revenues.”

Washington claims they need more money, so what better way to get more money than to “increase revenue” right? This poltii-speak has become very popular with the media; with members of the drooling moron media from MSNBC, CNBC, CNN and the like latching on and repeating the term with regularity.
The problem is, not one of the drooling set has called this politi-speak what it really is; an increase in taxes! The Democrats know full well that they can’t come out and tell the American people that they want to raise taxes!
Concerned that there might be a handful of folks who can see through the ruse of “revenue increase” the Democrats have also taken to painting this tax increase as “closing loopholes” in the tax law that give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations for private jets.
That sounds good too, right? Stick it to those greedy bastards and their luxury items. Once again the drooling moron media buys into this line of crap too. Hey even “Republicans” like Joke Scarborough from Morning Joke on MSNBC has labeled this idea as “common sense.”
Here’s the problem, you may think it’s absolutely stupid to give corporations and billionaires tax breaks for buying private jets, but think about it this way; not about who buys these planes, who builds these planes? Add to that who sells these planes? Add to that what goes into building those planes?
Think about it? There has to be millions of parts; plastic, metal, fabric, rubber, the list goes on and on that goes into the building of an aircraft. All of those parts and pieces are built by somebody, sold by somebody, engineered by somebody, manufactured by somebody, sold buy somebody. These somebody’s have JOBS! And they pay taxes! Yes they contribute revenue to the Federal Government!
If we follow the “common sense” thinking of Morning Joke, what is the likelihood that billionaires are going to cut back on buying new or additional planes? If this so-called loophole in the tax law encourages them to take advantage of savings and buy a plane, then that loophole is doing something the Obama administration has failed miserably to do; it’s created jobs!
Instead of closing this alleged loophole, maybe we should look at additional ways to encourage billionaires and corporations to spend more money! The same fundamental flaw exists in the Democrats “increase revenue” strategy. The U.S. economy is consumer driven, when you raise taxes, you not only take money out of the system that could be spent on goods and services, you also create an environment of uncertainty so consumers, businesses and even greedy billionaires stop spending.
This isn’t brain surgery! If you don’t buy that widget, then the guy who builds the widget doesn’t need to make more, and the guy who sells it, sells less and the guy who supplies the pieces of the widget sells less, and needs to build less, and the guy who supplies the raw materials for the widget sells less…and so on. In the end if you sell less then you may need less people, which means more unemployment and less revenue to the Federal Government.
So the genius of the Democrat strategy is to actually create more unemployed people during one of the most difficult economic periods in our history. Instead of raising taxes, what we really need Washington to do is to CUT SPENDING! and CUT TAXES!
If you cut taxes, you will increase revenue to the Federal Government! If you just swallowed your tongue: follow the logic. Tax cuts equal more spending which equals more goods needing to be manufactured, equals more people to make the stuff, equals MORE TAX PAYERS! Now look at history; every time tax cuts have been tried, it has resulted in an increase in revenue to the Federal Government. EVERY TIME!
Think about it; would you prefer a system that relies on a small number of people contributing to the tax base of a country or would you prefer to spread the responsibility of funding government over a wider group of people? What is a more stable foundation for anything; something that is an inch wide and a mile deep or something a mile wide and an inch deep? Spreading the responsibility over a wider range is truly COMMON SENSE!

Federal Budget Debate Really Not That Hard…it’s simple stupid!

There has been a seemingly endless debate about the Federal government budget, debt and spending cap that has dominated the news. I hate to think about all of the money that has been wasted on endless studies and “expert” economists to try and come up with an solution to the problem.

Based on all of this chatter, discussion, debate and brain power, you would think that this is an insurmountable problem. Well I am here to tell you…it’s not. Forget about all of the battles and numbers and boil the problem down to two pretty basic numbers and you can see exactly where the problem lies.

In the 50 years between 1960 and 2010 the revenue coming into the federal government is 20 times greater. In other words the dollars we took into the Federal government coffers is 20 times the amount of money that we took in back in 1960.
The other number is based in that same 50 year period…spending by the Federal government in 2010 is 42 times! greater than it was in 1960.
If you can’t figure out what the problem is, based on those two basic numbers, you’re either not trying, you’re lying or you’re stupid. It’s really that simple.

The Death of Common Sense

By now you have likely heard the story of the 95 year old, Florida women; stricken with cancer, who was forced to remove her adult diaper while being searched by the Transportation Security Administration.

The TSA continued to remain common sense free and chose to defend the actions of its security goons, releasing the following statement about the incident: "While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," the federal agency said. "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure."

The fact that these clowns chose to duck behind “procedure” shows exactly how weak minded the leadership of this bunch really is. This really isn’t brain surgery; it boils down to one very easy to answer question: “How many elderly, wheelchair bound women (or men) have attempted to commit a terrorist attack on a U.S. airliner?” We can even go as far as extending the question to include: babies, small children, and tweens.
The answer, if you have been paying even a little attention, is easy. None. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada. So why in the name of common sense do these drooling morons continue to step in soiled adult diapers with an ongoing string of ridiculous, misguided, public relations nightmares? Then rather than seeing and stating that they are wrong, they vainly try to defend their stupidity offering up an empty defense like procedure!
Even more amazing is the media’s willingness to run these stories, but make no ultimate stand and demand that this ridiculousness STOP! Yet if a Muslim cries mistreatment, religious profiling, or the need for religious privacy; for burqa wearing women, the media jumps in with both feet and the TSA is cowed into giving them a free pass at security check points.
It’s time for the American people to step up and demand that this ridiculous abuse of our freedom be stopped in its tracks. In it’s nearly ten year existence, the TSA has not prevented one terrorist attack, it’s long past time to end this bloated government bureaucracy and allow the private sector to take over airport security.