Archive for June 10, 2009


Disney/Pixar’s take on Obamanomics

Political Cartoon by Gary Varvel
Spending goes up, employment goes down. Spending goes up,
employment goes down down down. As spending goes up,
employment goes down. All together now…

with credit to:Gary Varvel

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Dems Pro-choice Except for a child’s Education

Once again it is obvious that when it comes to improving the blight of inner city youth, the democrats who decry the conditions fight against anything that actually helps better that condition.

They may dress like sheep but inwardly they are ravenous wolves, prying on our children every chance they get.

clipped from www.onenewsnow.com
school choice
According to The Wall Street Journal, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program currently provides vouchers to roughly 20,000 low-income students in order for them to attend better-performing schools — public or private. The extremely popular program has been in existence for 20 years, but now — thanks to Democratic lawmakers in the state — the program is in jeopardy.

 
Lawmakers recently voted to cut payments to private schools by over $150 per student and increase public school funding by $400 per student. The Wall Street Journal also reports that taxpayer funding for the low-income minority students that attend private school through the voucher program is less than half the cost taxpayers spend on public school.

Whose Running Things? The Executives or the Judges?

Apparently the judges are at least in South Carolina. The Governor of the State was fighting stimulus money from Washington because of all the strings that were attached to the money which would effect the state adversely in later years. However his authority was overturned by court order of the State Supremes.

Take a lessons folks. If you don’t like your boss take him to court and gain control of his company then you can run it yourself.

Do not like the way the Governor of your state operates then sue him and take over control of the states affairs.

Do not like your life well then SUE GOD! Good luck with that one.

clipped from www.foxnews.com

South Carolina’s high court has ordered Republican Gov. Mark Sanford to request $700 million in federal stimulus money,
which would head primarily to cash-strapped schools over the next two years.

The state Supreme Court issued its ruling
Thursday, a day after hearing arguments in Sanford’s legal fight to reject the money. The anti-bailout governor refused to
take the cash even after legislators passed a budget requiring him to do so.

The arguments involved lawsuits filed by
students and school administrators. Sanford had tried to get those cases merged in federal court with his own lawsuit to block
the money, but he lost that fight Monday.

Obama’s “Get Out of Jail Free Plan”

This makes absolutely no sense to me. Why in heaven’s name would we want to bring the enemy into our own camp. Transfer from one prison to another prison. Why not just keep him in PRISON IN GITMO and try him there?

This is ridiculous but then Obama is a big joke unfortunately the joke is on the good citizens of the United States.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com
FILE -- An undated file photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney's office shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Ghailani arrived in New York early Tuesday June 9, 2009, and is the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the United States. (AP Photo/File)
FILE — An undated file photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney’s office shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Ghailani arrived in New York early Tuesday June 9, 2009, and is the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the United States. (AP Photo/File)

(Ho – AP)

The transfer of Ahmed Ghailani to face capital charges in the 1998 East Africa bombings marked the first time a detainee who is not an American citizen has been brought from the prison in Cuba to the United States. Ghailani, appearing briefly in U.S. District Court in Manhattan yesterday, pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in connection with the blasts at the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Those attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

A former Islamic cleric, Ghailani was captured after a 10-hour shootout in the Pakistani city of Gujrat in July 2004. He was taken to a secret CIA prison before he and 13 other “high-value” detainees

While America Suffers Capital Hill Prospers

congress salary

A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.

Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it.

However, at 2.8 percent, the automatic raise that lawmakers receive is only half as large as the 2009 cost of living adjustment of Social Security recipients. thehill.com

The 2009 annual salary for rank-and-file senators and representatives is $174,000, up from last year’s $169,300.

The legislative pay hike comes as major U.S. employers shed jobs by the tens of thousands. Many worker salaries have been frozen or cut. Their benefits often have been slashed.

Families are pinching pennies and watching retirement accounts evaporate.In this decade, Congress has allowed the pay increase to go through for every year except 2007. The percentage increase is tied to private-sector wages and cannot be more than increases granted to general federal employees.

This follows the news from this weekend that Congress approved $93,000 more in petty cash for each member. Gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

I am all for people getting periodic MERIT raises but this automatic increase no matter what kind of job a person is doing has bankrupted this country. Capital Hill constantly pontificates on the sacrifices AMERICA has to make and then they turn around and pad their salaries and increase their benefits packages all at the expense of the taxpayer.

As the average American family is trying to survive this government induced economic recession, Capital Hill continues to spend OUR MONEY without any regard to the hardships they are placing upon their constituents. I am proposing a spending cut starting with all federal and public employees. I propose that all federal and public employees should have their wages and benefits reduced by the same percentage as the GDP index reduces. In other words the economy has shrunk by almost 6% since Obama took office so therefore the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT and all public employees and offices must reduce all spending and wages by at least 6%.

Once they have done all that then they can start to eliminate all PORK and earmark spending by at least 6%. I propose that all federal, and public employees who live off of TAXPAYER money must have their wages  froze at the MEDIUM wage of all workers in their states. In other words all State Senators and Representatives can not earn more than the AVERAGE of all other state residents. They should not be earning huge wages while the people they represent are struggling to manage their households. Perhaps if all Federal, and Public employees would suffer along with their constituents then perhaps they will listen a little more intently when we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. What say you?

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