An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
The Murder of America
Ok, let’s face a few facts here. The first being….that clown in the White House has NO idea what goes on in the REAL world. He’s never lived out here with us peons, and contrary to what his fake ‘biography’ says, he was NOT an under privileged kid! Upper middle class isn’t exactly deprived…I should know! Yep…spoiled rotten I was! Then, reality stepped in. UGH! I learned a LOT, and fast. If I hadn’t, I would be one of those who was dependent on the gubmint…..pretty much like D’Bama has turned out to be. The difference is….he’ll never have to work. Not that he has for the last 3 years, or any year prior. Oh, wait a minute…didn’t he work at Baskin-Robbins for a short time one summer. Yeah…like that’s real life experience. 
He’ll never know how to run a business, balance a check book, which obviously isn’t one of those skills he gained while organizing communities to suck off the taxpayer teat.
Now, once again, he’s thinking that punishing the earners, those who actually CREATE jobs, is going to give him a boost in the polls. What a total maroon! When those who drool over him, realize he’s lost them their jobs, they MIGHT snap out of their stupor, but I kind of doubt it. It’s like some weird Jim Jones/David Koresch cult thing. Extremely spooky! They’ll decide that’s ok…Obama will ‘put gas in their cars, and pay their mortgage’. Sorry, folks, but D’Bama doesn’t, and won’t be, crapping gold bricks for y’all!
If there is anyway possible, this clown MUST be stopped before he totally destroys what few private sector jobs are left. Oh, there’s plenty of gubmint jobs, but once you lose those private sector jobs, and business, there will be no one to pay the taxes that pay for those overpaid gumbint jobs! And then what? No more welfare checks either, because there will be no money. Oh, I’m sure someone will think printing more money will ‘help’. *snicker* It’s a shame those idjits haven’t learned from history. Check out what happened when Confederate money became worthless…pretty much like that paper crap we got stuck with, and nothing to back it. It’s just paper. For a visual closer to our own timeline, think Zimbabwe:
And THIS is what Obama wants for our nation. Total destruction, a complete remake, and something totally alien to liberty loving Americans!
Obama’s Tax Hike on Job Creators
The Foundry
“The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, because that would just suck up—take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.”
That was President Obama in 2009, trying to reassure Americans that he was going to wait until after the recession to raise taxes. Yesterday, he began pushing again for higher taxes on the “wealthy“—which would actually hit 1.2 million of the country’s most successful job creators.
As if the Obamacare tax hike and the rest of Taxmageddon weren’t enough.
The tax increase du jour is a recycled one: The President’s long-held plan to raise taxes on incomes over $200,000 ($250,000 for families). Interestingly, President Obama is to the left of his liberal allies in Congress such as Senator Charles Schumer (D–NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) on the definition of the “rich.” Schumer and Pelosi set the mark at as those making more than $1 million annually. That is five times higher than President Obama’s $200,000 mark. Apparently even they recognize the President’s plan would be too punitive on job creators (although they are still willing to stick it to the most successful job creators for the sake of class warfare).
Told Ya!
The REALITY of ObamaCare
Too Many Broken Promises in Obamacare
The Foundry
Yesterday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) almost called Obamacare’s individual mandate a tax, stopping mid-word to call it a “penalty”. White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew and other spokespersons echoed this talking point. This is in spite of last week’s Supreme Court ruling that deemed the mandate unconstitutional under both the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause, but ruled that it could stand as part of Congress’s authority to “lay and collect taxes.”
Dubbing the individual mandate a tax saved the President’s health care law, but it’s a concept that President Obama himself has strongly denied. In a 2009 interview, President Obama argued that his individual mandate was not a tax increase, stating, “I absolutely reject that notion.”
But after last week, President Obama must now admit it’s a tax or admit the mandate is unconstitutional. It’s can only be one or the other.
Having Fun With OUR Money
Yep! The infamous Pork Report from the Beacon Center is out! Now, I gotta tell ya, I am more than disappointed to find that even though the “Rs” are now the majority in the state house for the first time since…what… Reconstruction?…. there is absolutely no difference in the spending issues. Seriously…none. The Rs are as bad as the Ds when it comes to spending other people’s money on crap. And yep…that’s what it is….C-R-A-P!
You can check out the entire report here, but my favorite is the Pork of the Year. Starting on page 6, we have….drum roll please….. LIVING THE DREAM ON YOUR DIME.
Whitney Askins, the executive director of the Upper Cumberland Development District (UCDD), had launched a project called “living the Dream” with $300,000 in seed funding from the development district. She also received million of dollars in various government grants. The funding went to purchase an elaborate mansion designed to provide housing for needy seniors. They weren’t the only ones living the dream.
What Williams (Nashville’s News Channel 5 reporter) and his team found was that Askins herself promptly moved into the mansion, filling it with her own furniture after paying herself from the “Living the Dream” coffers. She reimbursed herself nearly $10,000 for furniture and then went on a spending spree. Among her purchases:
- a $1,500 high-definition TV;
- a custom-made $25,000 staircase;
- a steam shower and sauna costing $3,000; and
- two massive fountains totaling nearly $9,000
Askins also relocated her horses and dogs to the mansion, or as she called it, a “therapeutic petting zoo” for the seniors. She also put numerous family members on the payroll, including her mother, father, sister, brother, and daughter. Each of the family members received his or her own car and gas cards.
In all, Askins blew more than $1.5 million on the project. After New Channel 5 released its findings, the development district board placed Askins on administrative leave, while state and local officials launched criminal and civil investigations into her actions. As if pouring salt in the wound, Askins applied for unemployment benefits, but fortunately, her claim was denied.
I should freakin’ hope so! While there are people desperate for work, some broad is taking your money, and having a high ol’ time with it, and then expects us to pay even more in unemployment benefits? Jiminy crickets…talk about ballsy! But I must ask…was NO ONE paying attention? Who approved the purchases? I would think with such a project, someone would have to have been doing a bit of oversight…wouldn’t you?
Were there actually any ‘needy seniors’ in the house, or was this just one big ol’ party for Askins and clan? While I’m sure the mansion (pictured in the report) would be quite pleasant for the needy seniors, I would think their needs would be more akin to food, clothing, shelter, and someone who actually CARES about THEM, and not their own comfort and desires.
People like this make me want to smack the crap out of them! Literally!
The numerous examples of how our state and local governments WASTE our money is absolutely mind boggling! At a time when everyone is strapped for cash, little luxuries have to go by the wayside, yet government carries on without a care in the world. How about some incentives for the youth…more Job Corps facilities so kids can learn a skill? Nope….gotta blow money on an industry that makes billions! Maybe using that money they blew for a $1.5 million sign for Volkswagon, who can buy it’s own sign to be seen from the air, to hire more state police that just might stop the drug trafficking through our state? How about equipping the volunteer fire departments in the small towns around the state? Just a couple of suggestions. Heaven knows, they could sure use some help in making wiser decisions!
Regressing
The headline in The Washington Times:
Obama hails ruling as win for ‘middle class’; justices hand tax issue to GOP
Ummm… how would this be a win for the middle class, which the majority…well, what WAS the majority…of people fall? Now, apparently, we’re all going to be below the poverty level, joining the others that Obama has put there by the failed economic policies which has resulted in the creation in a LARGE number of government jobs, paid for by us peons, but not a whole lot in the private sector, where most of us live our day to day lives.
And let’s not forget that this overblown piece of crap that was foisted on the American people also violates the 1st Amendment. Forcing faith based organization to pay for murder is beyond the pale! Forcing people to buy something they don’t want, and then taxing them if they don’t, is also a violation.
This administration, and all who support their Marxist plans, MUST GO! I don’t give a damn where they go….just GO! Any STATE government that just follows along blindly will also need to be replaced.
I really don’t think they understand the TRUE American spirit! Too bad for them!
But….But….FACTS Don’t Matter!
If you were planning on doing ANYTHING…buy a car, a house, a TV….next year, I really hope you’ve saved up your money and will be paying cash, cuz your income is going to shrink! Not necessarily because of a pay cut, but because the government believes it is entitled to YOUR money. It’s that simple.
In reality, the government doesn’t have any money. They don’t create anything. They don’t produce products or goods to EARN any money. No, what they do is take YOUR money, and spend it on mostly crap. Giving it to those who don’t earn it. That’s called theft. There is a real important rule…a commandment…from a MUCH higher authority… THOU SHALT NOT STEAL! Since the majority of those that are sent to Washington, D.C. to represent our interests have completely forgotten such simple, common sense rules, we now have a government made up of thieves. Yep…that’s what they are….thieves. And the largest theft in history is getting ready to smack us all upside the head in a very short time. Get ready!
How Taxmageddon Will Impact You
The Foundry
“I’ve said that this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and I believe it,” President Obama told an Ohio crowd yesterday. Indeed it is—because in a sluggish economy, American taxpayers are about to be clobbered by the largest tax increase in history.
Starting January 1, 2013, Americans will face a $494 billion tax increase, the highest ever in one year. According to The Washington Post, congressional aides started calling it “Taxmageddon”—a chilling reference fit for an apocalyptic nightmare. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that it will be a “massive fiscal cliff” for the economy.
How will this affect you? Heritage has a new Taxmageddon page that shows the impact of these tax hikes on individuals. It includes an interactive map where you can click on your state to see what the average tax increase will be, based on the average income of taxpayers in your state.
YOUR Money For THEIR Benefits!
Please….tell us something we didn’t already know! At least, those of us who were actually paying attention!
Auto Bailout Was Really Just a UAW Bailout
The Foundry
President Obama told the United Auto Workers (UAW) in February not to listen to critics of the auto bailout who said union members “made out like bandits—that saving the auto industry was just about paying back the unions.” “Really?” Obama said. “I mean, even by the standards of this town [Washington], that’s a load of you-know-what.”
New research from Heritage labor economist James Sherk proves that it was, in fact, a load of truth.
The Treasury Department estimates that taxpayers will lose $23 billion on the auto bailout. Sherk and co-author Todd Zywicki find that none of these losses came from saving jobs, but instead went to prop up the compensation of some of the most highly paid workers in America. They write:
We estimate that the Administration redistributed $26.5 billion more to the UAW than it would have received had it been treated as it usually would in bankruptcy proceedings. Taxpayers lost between $20 billion and $23 billion on the auto programs. Thus, the entire loss to the taxpayers from the auto bailout comes from the funds diverted to the UAW.
The Obama campaign is touting the bailout in Michigan this week, crowing about saved-or-created jobs. What the bailout actually saved was the UAW’s heavily padded compensation packages; what it created was a massive taxpayer loss.
Remember…It’s YOUR Money
$90 Billion in Green Energy Stimulus => 16,100 Jobs
The green energy sales pitch is basic to President Obama’s President Obama’s re-election campaign. Environmentalists favor it.
The justification is more jobs. But here is reality: only about 16,000 new jobs have been created. That is $5.6 million per job.
This is not highlighted in his campaign literature.
The bankruptcy of Solyndra got a lot of unexpected negative publicity. But it was soon swept under the rug.
In 2008, he said: “We can invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy … to create 5 million new jobs, new energy jobs, all across [the] country, jobs that pay well, jobs that can’t be outsourced.”
The number of new jobs is not impressive.
Then there is the decline in wind energy jobs. One estimate is 10,000 jobs lost since 2009. Of course, without government subsidies and tax breaks, the industry would be unblowin’ in the wind.
There were supposed to be 200,000 new energy-related jobs from the $90 billion invested (squandered). That would have been $400,000 per job. Still too expensive, in my view.
If you want to see a 44-page piece of puffery from the White House on the benefits of this expenditure, click here.
From day one, Obama talked a big game. Problem is, he’s never had the walk to back it up. Then he discovered, what he considered an unlimited amount of funds. The problem? It wasn’t HIS pile of cash. That cash belonged to us, but that’s ok, since he was risking nothing. He’s all about OPP….or in this case….OPM!
Since the Obama campaign isn’t pointing out his massive failures, it’s up to us, you and me, to make sure people are aware of his major short comings. One of which, is a total lack of common sense. On the other hand, I’m fairly sure he knew exactly what he was doing, he just doesn’t care that he has sunk this country into an unprecedented amount of debt, more than the past five presidents….combined…including the man who apparently is his nemesis, George W. Bush. You remember him? He’s the one Obama blames for EVERYTHING, including natural disasters and hangnails.
Haslam – Big Spender?
According to TN Campaign For Liberty, one of these things is not like the other (Sesame Street reference, in case ya didn’t catch it). Now, I watched both videos, and unless I’m just dense, which is always a possibility, or haven’t had enough coffee, I honestly can’t tell the difference in content. The only difference I caught…him messing with his hair and people going up the steps. If there was something else, I missed it.
So, what does this tell me? One, the governor, who I did not support, wants to spend more money on a program that, contrary to what he says, isn’t all that productive. Small children need to be at home with their moms, not being indoctrinated by a failing school system. IF this state ever has a surplus, it should NOT be spent!
No, the state should do what most smart people would do, and be prepared, financially, for any disaster, and use said surplus to help those affected. Anyone remember the floods in 2010? We sure do! Said surplus could have helped in the clean up, and getting businesses back on their feet, without the aid of the federal government. We should take care of our own. Just one thought. It’s called, by folks back in my dad’s day, a rainy day fund….saved for emergencies, not spent the minute it comes in. Just a thought.
Must Be An Election Year
Sen. Bob Corker says tax reform is gaining traction in Congress
“I really do think that the sweet spot for our country is pro-growth tax reform,” Corker told reporters after addressing the Tennessee Business Roundtable. “That’s lowering marginal rates but doing away with loopholes (in order to) generate more revenues — and certainly economic growth — linked to long-term entitlement reform.
“I do feel consensus building around that concept on both sides of the aisle, and our first best opportunity to deal with that is going to be during the lame-duck session. I am convinced that over the next couple of years, this issue is going to be addressed.”
Oh yeah…it’s an election year alright! Excuse me Senator, but what have you been doing the last 5 1/2 years? Twiddling your thumbs and collecting a paycheck? The country has been DEMANDING tax reform for years, and just now, y’all are ‘gaining traction’ on one of the very issues the American people, YOUR bosses by the way, have been calling, emailing, and writing letters about? Seriously?
A wee bit of advice…. Leaders lead. Followers go along to get along. We don’t want any more of the ‘getting along’ nonsense. We want strong leaders who will stand up FOR We, The People, not ‘work with’ those who are to destroy us.
Another piece of advice… SCRAP THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM! What we have now is MUCH longer than the Holy Bible, and that Book is filled with a lot of common sense rules. The tax code is nothing more than plain ol’ horse manure, unfair to anyone, complete gobbledygook, that even those who ‘wrote it’ don’t understand. Flat or Fair, either one would make more sense, and likely generate more revenue for the country. Second, stop freakin’ spending our money on crap. We honestly don’t care why salmon swim upstream, or any thing about the sex lives of fruit flies! Our money is meant for the common defense of our people, not some moron’s pet project to see what a shrimp, which should be eaten, will do on a treadmill. Spending millions to find out why American vote? Seriously?
If you yahoos up in D.C. are serious, start taking a good hard look at the garbage you spend our money on, to make yourselves feel good, but does NOTHING to improve life in these “United” States. Use our money to secure the border, kick out criminals, shoot to kill if necessary, and shred every single page of the absurd ‘tax code’, and start from scratch. Y’all don’t need our money, all of you are a LOT better off than the average American, so cut your paychecks to what the lowest rank military man or woman earns. Kill the perks! Like I said, y’all don’t need our money, you did just fine before y’all got into office, and started raiding OUR piggy bank.
Common sense would tell MOST people, if you don’t have the money, you don’t spend it. Not D.C.! I mean, after all, it’s not their own money they are spending, and sucking out of the pockets of hard working Americans. It doesn’t bother them one bit when a company has to move its operations overseas, or go bankrupt due to all the regulations, taxes, and, let’s throw this one in there….union demands. But then, common sense hasn’t been a requirement for our capital since George Washington was president.
P.S. You may rank higher in the ‘conservative’ category than Lamar Alexander, but I honestly don’t think that being in the 60% range is anything to brag about!
It’s Not YOUR Money!
Stopping the Largest Tax Hike in History
The Foundry
The largest tax hike in history is due to strike the United States on January 1, 2013. Known as “Taxmageddon,” it would impose $494 billion in higher taxes on the American people in the first year. So terrible would be its impact that yesterday Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Senate Democrats that the country is headed toward a “fiscal cliff” and that Congress must deal with the impending tax nightmare.
On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that his chamber will take up the issue before the November election. Knowing Washington’s general reluctance to do anything of substance in an election year, Boehner’s announcement was welcome news given the disastrous ramifications the threat of such a massive tax hike is already having on the economy. That’s according to Mohammed El-Erian, CEO of Pimco, the world’s largest bond trading firm. El-Erian argues a “prolonged political inaction is likely to postpone building plants and purchasing equipment and to discourage them from hiring.” And that is only an inkling of the blow that would strike the economy if these tax hikes actually took effect.
Since Some Folks Have Comprehension Issues….
….I thought this graphic found on Heritage from the IRS might assist in their understanding of the issue:
You’ll also notice, that those in the middle ‘class’ bracket pay more than the tier above them. Wonder why that is? Because the government is doing it’s best to kill the “middle class”.
BIG Government – Alive, Well, and SPENDING
The Bloated Government of America
The Foundry
The General Services Administration blew through $820,000 in taxpayers’ money in a lavish ”team building” trip to Las Vegas, and President Barack Obama is “apoplectic” at the news, according to the president’s campaign advisor, David Axelrod. Obama, he says, has devoted his efforts to saving “tens of billions of dollars” in cutting waste, fraud and inefficiency in government. Yet under President Obama’s leadership, government spending keeps growing irresponsibly, and neither he nor his allies in Congress are doing anything about it.
The latest example came last week when Democratic leadership in the Senate again passed the buck on enacting a budget — on April 29, it will have been three years since the Senate last passed a budget resolution. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D–ND),whose job it is to shepherd a budget through the Senate, said of his decision: “This is the wrong time to vote in committee. This is the wrong time to vote on the floor. I don’t think we will be prepared to vote before the election.” Conrad also said that offering a budget would be futile and “would do little to move us closer to a bipartisan agreement that can actually be adopted.”
The Thieves Of DC
What Tax Day Could Feel Like in 2013
The Foundry
In addition to today being Tax Day, it’s also, coincidentally, “Tax Freedom Day” — meaning that it has taken from January 1 until now for Americans to earn enough money to pay this year’s federal, state, and local tax bill — 29.2% of all our income. In other words, for the first 111 days of the year, everything you earned went straight to Uncle Sam. Compare that to back in 1900, when Americans paid only 5.9% of their income in taxes and Tax Freedom Day came on January 22.
The Tax Foundation reports that because of higher federal income and corporate tax collections, Tax Freedom Day came four days later this year than last. And the bad news is that unless Washington takes action, it will take working Americans 11 more days to meet next year’s tax burden.
You Are Suppose To Know The “Buffet Rule” Is Based On Lies
Tax Gimmicks, Tax Doom
The Foundry
The U.S. Senate could vote today on the gimmicky distraction known as the Buffett Rule — President Obama’s plan to raise taxes on wealthy Americans and job creators in order to supposedly bring “fairness” to the tax code and pay down the debt. As the paper-thin justification for the proposal continues to fade away, the American people are staring down Tax Day, continued joblessness, and the prospect of a major tax meltdown coming on January 1, 2013.
The facts of the Buffett Rule are simple. The President wants millionaires (and small businesses taxed as individuals) to pay a minimum tax of 30 percent. For all of his rhetoric that the measure would “stabilize our debt and deficits for the next decade,” the Buffett Rule would bring in only $47 billion in revenue in ten years. To put those numbers in context, President Obama’s budget calls for adding $6.7 trillion to the national debt. So the Buffett Rule would cover just 0.007% of all of Obama’s debt and .001% of Obama’s spending.
None of this even touches on the failure in logic underlying the President’s argument, as we detailed in depth last week. In short, President Obama is employing the Buffett Rule as an election-year class warfare weapon. And he’s aiming it at the highest-earning families and businesses in America who are already shouldering the vast majority of the country’s tax burden. Just one example: The top 1 percent of income earners — those earning more than $380,000 in 2008 — paid more than 38 percent of all federal income taxes while earning 20 percent of all income.
