Back to the keyboard.

The fever and chills are gone. The dry non-productive cough is still an occasional distraction. I just took my final Levaquin tablet and that completes my medicine regimen. The government is still in full out destroy the United States of America mode, and our troops in the middle east languish while the Emperor of Washington D.C. holds his lavish weekly dinner parties. With a few exceptions, the Republican party continues to wimp around and support candidates who are Republicrats.

The White House and it's lap dog, the main stream media, continue to claim they want diversity while at the same time doing all they can to stifle any thought except their own. Be careful of arguments that start with errant logic. If you start with an errant premise, then the conclusion you draw will most likely be wrong.

The modern day Democrat politicians and socialist radicals have no qualms about lying and presenting half truths. They use pseuo-science and structured studies to support their globalist policies, and created crisis. They blame everyone but themselves for the current economic mess and failed foreign policy. We all know who was in control of the law making bodies for the better part of the George W. Bush presidency. They speak of transparency while the president spends millions to keep his history a secret. Can you spell "Hypocrite"? Republicans caved on their mandate to keep government within the bounds manageable financial reality, but the Democrats just continue to lie and spend while telling us that their uncontrolled spending will not affect the deficit. "You lie" Mr. President. We are in trouble.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

A man ahead of his time.

We may think that about Jefferson, but it simply proves that despite increasing technology, we are destined to repeat the mistakes of those who preceded us. We just don't pay enough attention to our history. We don't pay attention to the nations around us who have fallen prey to the notions which attempt to bring the highest down to the level of the lowest. Many are trying to pull themselves out of the morass created by socialistic and fascist governmental policies. Big government cannot take care of the people. Government is at its best when it serves those who supply its wealth. Please pay attention to the quotes of this wise patriot. We would do ourselves a big favor if we returned to the mindset of this great American.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..' If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. - Joe Martin

Let Me Explain

I just thought I would offer this simple flow chart to explain the "Stimulus Package" provisions. 

I really would like to write about something else, but the plethora of stupidity in Washington, D.C. now is beyond monumental.  I will try and ease off as soon as I think you might be overloaded.  I know how tempting it is just to give up and say, "Why am I jousting at windmills?"  We can't give up.  We are being oppressed by a runaway government, and we must continue the counter offensive.  Our media sources should be giving us the information we need, but instead they are giving us the information they are being fed by their comrades in command.  I told you other sexual orientations would receive protected class status if homosexuals were granted rights and privileges.  Many argued that our legislators would not stoop any further than they already have.  I understand that pedophiles were granted protected class status in the new "Hate Crimes" bill.  One of these days you will listen to me.  The people who practice aberrant sexual behaviors are aggressive.  They want to convert others.  They will do whatever is necessary to validate their lifestyles.  Little Susie with two mommies will grow up with a tolerance for the lifestyle at the least and will become homosexual by learning to satisfy her sexual desires just as her parents have.  It is learned behavior.  Other more bizarre behaviors will be added as members of these groups sue for recognition.

Democracy and Majority Rule

by Walter E. Williams

Democracy and majority rule give an aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be deemed tyranny. Think about it. How many decisions in our day-to-day lives would we like to be made through majority rule or the democratic process? How about the decision whether you should watch a football game on television or "Law and Order"? What about whether you drive a Chevrolet or a Ford, or whether your Easter dinner is turkey or ham? Were such decisions made in the political arena, most of us would deem it tyranny. Why isn't it also tyranny for the democratic process to mandate what type of light bulbs we use, how many gallons of water to flush toilets or whether money should be taken out of our paycheck for retirement?

The founders of our nation held a deep abhorrence for democracy and majority rule. In Federalist Paper No. 10, James Madison wrote, "Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority." John Adams predicted, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." Our founders intended for us to have a republican form of limited government where the protection of individual God-given rights was the primary job of government.

This is just a portion of the Op-Ed piece by Walter Williams, but it contains the basis for what I try and convey everyday.  Read it until you understand it.  We must pull up the tracks if we are to stop this runaway train to nowhere. 

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
  - Alexandre Dumas

The Truth About Taxation

Our new socialist leaders would have us believe they are doing great things for the working class Americans in the area of tax relief.  Lets look at the figures.  The chart shows the top 50% of wage earners as opposed to the bottom 50 %.  The guest explainer I use today will further amplify the bar graph.  The graph and the article I am re-publishing today are not from the same source, so some variance in figures may be evident.  Take them as separate entities.  The point is nothing is being done for the majority of those who have always born the tax burden. The only ones to benefit are those who don't contribute anyway.  More freebies for the bottom feeders.  Before you start jumping on me about painting with a broad brush, know that I'm aware of exceptions in any demographic.

By Peter Ferrara
Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy, Institute for Policy Innovation

Yesterday President Obama said that average Americans:

". . . need a government that is working to create jobs and opportunity for them, rather than simply giving more and more to those at the very top in the false hope that wealth trickles down . . .We start from the simple premise that we should reduce the tax burden on working people. . ."

Obama presents here a false caricature of America's tax policy in the time before he became president, with tax cuts supposedly going only to the rich, while working people and the middle class bore the tax burden.

Before Obama became president, the top 1% of income earners already paid 40% of the total federal income taxes.  The top 5% of the population the president is targeting for tax hikes already paid 60% of federal income taxes.

By contrast, the bottom 40% of income earners, who lefties like Obama often refer to as "working people" or the "working class," as a group already paid no income taxes.  Instead, they received net payments from the tax system equal to 3.8% of total income taxes.  In other words, the bottom 40% paid negative 3.8% of total federal income taxes.

In addition, the middle 20% of income earners, the actual middle class, paid just 4.7% of total federal income taxes, before Obama even won the election.

These relative tax burdens were actually the result of Reagan Republican supply side economics that began with Reagan and Jack Kemp in the 1970s and 1980s, continued through Newt Gingrich and his Contract with America, and further played out with the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003.  Reagan and his Republicans in fact had already abolished income taxes on Obama's "working people" or "working class" when Obama came into office, and had almost abolished them for the actual "middle class."


It was, in fact, Ronald Reagan who first proposed in the 1970s the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) that has done so much to reduce income tax liabilities for lower income people. As president, he cut federal income tax rates across the board for all taxpayers by 25%. He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to prevent inflation from pushing workers into higher tax brackets.

In the Tax Reform Act of 1986, he reduced the federal income tax rate for moderate income workers all the way down to 15%. That act also doubled the personal exemption, shielding more income from taxation for everybody.

Newt Gingrich's Contract with America adopted a child tax credit of $500 per child that reduced the tax liabilities of lower income people by a higher percentage than for higher income people.  President Bush doubled that credit to $1,000 per child, and made it refundable so that low-income people who do not even pay $1,000 in federal income taxes could still get the full credit. Bush also adopted a new lower tax bracket for the lowest income workers of 10%, reducing their federal income tax rate by 33%. He cut the top rate for the highest income workers by just 11.6%, from 39.6% to 35%.

These are the tax cuts adopted over the last 30 plus years that brought us to the point where federal income taxes were already abolished for the working poor and what some people term the working class, and almost abolished for the middle class.  Clearly, somebody thought of cutting taxes for working people long before Obama showed up.

What Obama has added to the mix, his tax cut for 95% of Americans, turned out to be a miserable $400 per worker tax credit, less than $8 per week.  That tax credit actually will not reduce taxes at all for the bottom 40% of income earners who were already not paying federal income taxes, because you cannot cut taxes for someone who is not paying taxes.

Obama's people again tried to confuse this issue yesterday, with White House economist Jared Bernstein saying that while it is true that these workers do not pay income taxes, they do pay payroll taxes.  Yes, it is true they pay payroll taxes, but Obama is not cutting anyone's payroll taxes! His tax cut is a $400 per worker income tax credit that does not cut payroll taxes, and cannot and does not reduce income taxes for anyone who does not pay income taxes.

Obama also said yesterday that his $400 per worker tax credit "will save or create over half a million jobs."  But it will actually save or create exactly zero jobs.  That is because borrowing $400 from the private sector to give someone else $400 does not add anything to the economy on net.  Moreover, the tax credit does nothing to change the incentives that govern the economy.  To change the incentives to save, invest, start businesses, expand businesses, create jobs, and produce, you have to reduce tax rates, not send workers $400 checks.  That is what Reagan did, and that is why his economic program created a 25 year economic boom.

Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation, among other posts.  He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan.

I'm Getting There.

Hey, I guess you noticed I missed Wordless Wednesday.  Or Not.  It was totally wordless.  I have been totally wordless as I've watched in amazement as our politicians continue to wreck what has taken hundreds of years to build.  No change here, the Demos are continuing and increasing  the rampant spending of the "big government" Republicans of the past administration. I think it's time for a third party to carry forward a conservative agenda for the majority of Americans who are sick and tired of paying everyone Else's bills.  I have read this before, but I don't recall posting it.  I guess that's one advantage of aging, everything seems new everyday.

The Daily Mail ( UK ) wrote this editorial about Obama on

01/6/2009. (confirmation, Google " London Daily Mail Obama's Victory")

Obama's Victory--A British view
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups.  A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult.  A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.
A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence.  For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.
Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom.  He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of the Fox News Network and Rush Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.  Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.
A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.
A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation.  A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.
Congratulations America!  Your funeral will be sooner than you think!

"Socialists believe in government ownership of the means of production. Fascists believed in government control of privately owned businesses, which is much more the style of this government. That way, politicians can intervene whenever they feel like it and then, when their interventions turn out badly, summon executives from the private sector before Congress and denounce them on nationwide television." --economist Thomas Sowell

Pappy has left the building.