Common Sense Government Views

Get the Hell Out of My Life!

A close friend of mine told me the Republican candidates are not strong enough. I asked him what he meant by "strong enough." 

"Well," he said, "no one, except for the ocassional Newt outburst to a debate host, is stating our case strongly enough."

I said, "Are you saying there's not enough emotion behind the words?" 

"Yes, that's part of it."

I went on, "Do you want someone to be more forceful about the damage being done to our country by the radical left?"

"Yes, yes, absolutely. Our candidates are making good points here and there but most of the time they are being made intellectually. 'Well, there's X number more people in poverty now, more folks using food stamps, more unemployed,' and that's good stuff, but it doesn't really impinge."

When I asked him what he meant by "impinge," he said "we need to make a much stronger impact with our message. We're making progress getting our message out there, but we need to increase the intensity. We need to increase the impact."

I thought about our conversation and today, I realized EXACTLY what we should be saying to make that impact. It's short, sweet AND yes, it has impact. Without a drum roll, it's simply:

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE!

I called my friend and told him this and he said, "yeh, get the hell out of my wallet!"

I said, "sure, sure, it's definitely a wallet thing, but this is much deeper, much more pervasive. They've invaded so many areas of our life, it's time we simply told them:

"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE!" 

Picture thousands of Tea Party members, having a very peaceful rally somewhere. Washington D.C. perhaps, or even Springfield, Illinois. Mind you, they'll get a permit to conduct a very peaceful rally. They won't commit a litany of crimes against each other and the local area. They won't blather on about class warfare and they won't beg for handouts. And they'll more than likely clean up after themselves. 

But I digress.

Picture a few thousand Tea Party members having their peaceful gathering and then, all at once, they break into a chant:

"Get the hell out of my life!"

"Get the hell out of my life!"

Tea Party aside, folks, there are millions...MILLIONS of Americans who want the progressive, left-wing, radical, liberal world OUT OF THEIR LIFE! 

We don't mind government. We want it to carry out the purpose our Founders put in place. 

We want it limited.

We don't want them spending our children and grandchildren into oblivion.

We want the power pushed DOWN to the states and local municipalities. 

We don't want teachers indoctrinating our kids with liberal think. We do NOT want liberal bias in the classroom! Frankly, we don't want any bias in the classroom.

We do not want our newspapers giving us tainted news. We want them to deliver...wait for it...ACTUAL journalism. 

We don't want to be told what to eat. What light bulbs to use. What cars to buy. 

We don't want to be fined if we don't buy what the government insists we buy.

We don't want radicals governing us. ANYWHERE.

May I say as a personal note regarding the massive government, the massive bureaucracy, and to the people who work daily on increasing the government's size and power, may I simply say:

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE! 

It's not just about government.

I want you out of my schools.

I want you out of my judicial system.

I want you out of my health care.

I want you out of the workplace. Let me rephrase that: get the hell out of the workplace.

Get out of the energy business. You're actually making it HARDER to come up with alternative fuels by forcing the market place to do your bidding.

Oh, I forgot to mention: people genuinely DETEST when you use fear as a political weapon. We know you believe 'the ends justify the means.' History has proven over and over and over again that your end game is brutal. Well, not brutal for those in charge, just brutal on the rest of those who gave up one liberty after another.

All in all, I want you off of the power grid in every way that power manifests. You siphon power from the individual to the state, your programs reduce personal responsibility, your carrots end up with less able people.

Simply stated, I want you to...

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE! 

And this November, voters from every nook and cranny for many, many, MANY different elected positions are going to say:

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE!  

Netanyahu On Israel and Iran

Calm, sane, rational, reasoning, articulate, convincing, discerning, compassionate...I run out of adjectives for this man.

 

The Biggest Enemy of Green is The Left

Let me repeat that subject header:

The biggest enemy of green is The Left.

Progressives, liberals, the left—whatever you choose to call this crowd—have produced the most harm to the subject of alternative fuels and to the entire subject of "green."

Let me explain how I came to this conclusion.

President Obama made it very clear what his plan was with Cap and Trade. You actually have to hear him say it to believe it. It's so far off the charts of what you would expect from the leader of the free world, but here it is, in his own words.

 

 

What are the views of President Obama's Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, on the subject of rising gas prices. Well, let's hear it straight from Mr. Chu in an interview with the Wall Street Journal in September of 2008:

“Somehow,” Chu said, “we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled into green efforts by the left, spearheaded cheerfully by our Presdient. What happened to five hundred million of those taxpayer dollars? I know it's irritating when I do this, but let me repeat that: FIVE HUNDRED MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS. This video is a bit old but it gives you a good idea:

 

 

President Obama shows up at a Chevy Volt factory and praises the vehicle. You could almost see him drooling over it. A week later, GM suspends production...

 

 

How about global warming? I could go on and on about the history of this scam, but here's a video (first in a series) that states the truth the left is really hoping America does not find about:

 

 

There are so many other examples I could and should give here. Many of these green "projects" that Obama and the left funnelled billions of taxpayer dollars into—that have now either gone bankrupt or proven ineffective—many of these outfits were either run by folks who donated heavily to the Prez' campaign or had direct connections to the Prez's buddies.

What's that expression?

Follow the money.

Croney capitalism is so rampant in the Obama administration, it's almost a full-time job to keep up with it. The left has virtually given up trying to hide it. It's now a full bore in-your-face "we're gonna get our green agenda accomplished if it's the last thing we do! And we don't care what you think, we don't care if we make boo boos on a few billion dollars here and there. We bloody well know better than you, so get out of our way while we save this planet."

Here's my point. Out of all of this bottomless corruption, the Left gives "green" more and more a bad name. The association with helping the environment gets more and more tainted with the hideous way the Left tries to get things done.

They lie, they spend money that shouldn't be spent, they lie, they scare people about what will happen if they don't get their way, they lie, they scratch the backs of those scratching their backs, and did I mention: they lie!

So what's the net effect?

Our environment needs a TON of help. There are many things we can and should do to help our environment. The Left has made such a dog's breakfast out of this, that public attention wanes with regards to good and positive AND honest things that can and should be done.

Thank you President Obama and your far left cronies for making it harder to take care of our envirnoment.  

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Subsidiarity...Big Word — Great Meaning!

I'm reading Imprimus, a publication of Hillsdale Collge. The article is about whether we need the Department of Education or not. The article mentions the word "subsidiarity." The info given is:

On a more philosophical level, the framers of America’s limited government had a broad allegiance to what Catholics call the principle of subsidiarity. In the secular world, the principle of subsidiarity means that local government should do only those things that individuals cannot do for themselves, state government should do only those things that local governments cannot do, and the federal government should do only those things that the individual states cannot do. 

This is a great concept.

Our Founders were so ON their game when they put together our founding documents.

The liberal idea of looking to government to solve problems that we can and should solve on our own or by use of local government, this liberal notion has been slowly but surely decaying our political and social structure. They'll fight tooth and nail to keep that government growing and frankly, it doesn't matter if they have a (D) or an (R) by their name.

I fully embrace the concept and the application of subsidiarity. 

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Fairness

By John Eberhard

Liberals in America, and President Obama in particular, have made a lot of noise in recent years about "fairness," or "social justice." Obama's message is that some people have too much money, and way back in 2008 on the campaign trail, he told Joe the Plumber that everyone benefits when we spread the wealth around.

Since then he has demonized the wealthy, and stated repeatedly that they are not paying their "fair share" in terms of taxes.

Let's take a look at some of these basic, fundamental assumptions. This idea is that a system that allows some people to make lots of money while others have far less, is fundamentally unfair. So to address this, Obama and other liberals seek to implement redistribution of wealth, heavily taxing the wealthy and giving that money to those with less money.

Just in case anyone does not know, redistribution of wealth is an idea that originated with Karl Marx in "The Communist Manifesto." I recommend reading it if you have not. Many liberals today scoff at and try to misdirect us from this fact, but it is true that redistribution of wealth is a socialist/communist idea, that has been gaining more and more traction in the United States for the last 80 years.

Redistribution of wealth is already in existence in America in many different forms, from progressive taxation (where those with higher incomes pay higher percentages of taxes), to welfare, to food stamps.

But let's take a look at another issue related to this that I have never seen discussed anywhere else. Let's examine the issue of "fairness." What is fairness really?

Liberals believe that fairness exists when you take money from the wealthy and give it to the poor, so that the amount of money everyone has tends to even out. This is the egalitarian model or concept. Everyone is supposed to have the same or similar amounts, or "equal outcomes." This supposedly eliminates the "unfair" situation of some having more money than others.

But who is that concept of "fairness" fair to? What group does it emphasize? What group does it put all of our attention on? And what group are the liberals mainly thinking about in their equations?

The poor of course. All of liberals' concentration is on the poor. They put all of their attention onto the least productive members of society. All of their systems and policies and regulations are built around helping the least productive members of society and flowing more money to them.

What about the most productive members of society, entrepreneurs and business owners? They are routinely demonized, and taxed at higher and higher levels. Is this system fair to them? Not only is the redistribution model not fair to the most productive members of society, it doesn't ever even worry about what's fair to them. It does its best to penalize them.

There are certain individuals who make society function. Not only are these people not being rewarded for their efforts, they are being stamped upon.

The top 1% in terms of taxable income paid 37% of all taxes in American in 2009. The top 10% in terms of taxable income paid 70% of all taxes. See here. Yet Obama says they are not paying their fair share and need to pay more.

By viewing the graph on this page, you can see that the percentage of overall taxes paid by the top 1% has been rising since 1980, from 19.05% in 1980 to 38.02% in 2008. That’s nearly doubling in 28 years, for the math challenged.

And the percentage of overall taxes paid by the bottom 50% has fallen during that time, from 7.05% in 1980 to 2.7% in 2008. And 49% of all US households paid no taxes at all in 2008.

Beyond that, we could look at the idea of incentives. There is an old saying that if you want to get rid of something - tax it. And if you want to get more of something - subsidize it. So as far as incentives go, we are encouraging people to produce less, by heavily taxing those who produce and giving handouts to those who don't work.

And beyond that, what liberals are creating is a large dependent class, people who are losing the ability to fend for themselves and who without that government handout, would fall flat. Is that "fair" to those people? Is it "fair" to the poor to make them dependent on the government?

I will take it out of the realm of a rhetorical question by answering it. NO! It is not fair. It is not fair to the poor to make them more dependent. It is not fair to the country to create a huge dependent class. It is certainly not fair to those who actually create all the wealth and jobs and prosperity in this country to demonize and tax them to death.

Demonizing those who own businesses and create wealth is another major point directly out of the "Communist Manifesto" (written by a man who barely worked a day in his life). Today we call it "class warfare" and Obama is one of its biggest proponents.

What is Fair?

True fairness is for people to be able to keep the fruits of their labors. True fairness is for people to have a chance to provide for themselves and be truly independent. True fairness is allowing those who are ambitious to work harder than others and make more money, and to be able to keep the lion's share of that money. And true fairness is where everyone would pay taxes for the government services that they receive, at the same percentage of their income.

Guess Who?

Guess who said the following:

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work."

Was it Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove? Mark Levin? Newt Gingrich?

Not even close.

It was Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of FDR's closest advisers.

He added, "after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. . . And an enormous debt to boot!"

Don't ever confuse liberals with the facts of what happened under FDR.