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Reality Check

November 27, 2011

In reference to cutting government spending, President Obama likes to say we should use a "scalpel" instead of a "machete". Obama couldn't be more wrong. We should be using a howitzer instead of a machete on government spending. Using a scalpel just ain't gonna git her done, because we're on an unsustainable fiscal path straight [...]

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Quotable Quotes

November 11, 2011

The Lord Of The Flies movement takes baby steps… All Animals Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others: “We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out to curb the influx of derelicts.” – OWS kitchen volunteer Rafael Moreno All Animals Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others, Part [...]

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Politics As Usual

July 26, 2011

One thing I've learned about President Obama – when he rails against "politics as usual", as he did in his redundant primetime speech to the country last night, you can rest assured that he will engage in politics as usual, relentlessly. The President had nothing new to say on the subject of the debt limit [...]

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Quotes From The Political Circus

July 21, 2011

I found the following current event quotes on The Patriot Post. Insane The New Sane: "The same politicians who spent $1.7 trillion more than they collected, in just this year alone, say the problem is that private citizens are not paying enough. … [B]ecause the political class has made the national debt so high, it [...]

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What Happens If Debt Ceiling Isn't Increased ?

July 12, 2011

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned that not raising the debt ceiling would be "catastrophic". He said it would lead to millions of job losses, a collapse of America's credit rating, huge increases in the interest rate, and a devaluation of the dollar. Geithner may be exaggerating, but he's correct about the negative effects in general. [...]

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Why We Have To Address Entitlements

June 1, 2011

Here's why, by the numbers. Total federal revenue for FY2011 will be about $2.2 trillion. Here are the three biggest federal expenditures YTD: Medicare/Medicaid – $815.1 billion Defense including wars – $698.5 billion Social Security – $711.8 billion Medicare, Defense, and Social Security expenditures YTD comes to $ 2.225 trillion. These three areas are consuming [...]

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Mediscare, Or Pushing Grandma Over The Cliff ?

May 26, 2011

Democrats are mighty happy about the results of a New York special congressional election held on tuesday. In that race, the Democrat candidate, Kathy Hochul, defeated the Republican candidate, Jane Corwin, by a margin of 47-43%. A third candidate, Jack Davis, who ran under the Tea Party banner, got 9% of the vote. There are [...]

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In The Midnight Hour

April 8, 2011

We're over six months into FY2011 (the government's fiscal year runs from October 1-September 30), and Congress has still not passed a budget for FY2011. There will be a government shutdown at midnight unless Congress can pass a budget or another temporary continuing resolution (CR) today. First, I must say…Heckuva job, Congress. Thanks for NOT [...]

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All Aboard The Gravy Train

March 9, 2011

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) has discovered a way to fix the unemployment problem. It involves changing the Constitution and creating a bunch more rights for people. Listen up, y'all, and let Jesse drop some knowledge on ya: They say the nut doesn't fall far from the tree. Seems so, but…. J.J. Jr's idea is [...]

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Shazzam ! Responsibility Gone !

August 11, 2010

Liberals, after 8 years of complaining about President Bush running up the federal debt (as did I), and after 20+ years of complaining about President Reagan running up a relatively minor amount of debt (Obama ran up nearly as much debt in his first year as Reagan did in two full terms), now wholly embrace [...]

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An Idiot, A Shill, And The Road To Serfdom

April 1, 2010

The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard – “Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama Bin Laden and say, ‘listen man,what is it that you’re so angry at me about that you’re willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings.’ That would be [...]

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ObamaWear

March 14, 2010

President Obama made the following groundbreaking announcement at the abandoned Members Only warehouse this morning (the same warehouse where Derek Zoolander and Hansel held their historic male model "walk-off"): "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As I look around this room, I see many well-dressed people. I see members of Congress, lobbyists for powerful special interests, [...]

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