Wednesday, October 15, 2014

100% Failure Rate - Part III

Back in 2009, I published my first blog proving 100% failure rate of the federal government. In it I highlighted such things as:

  • Social Security
  • The United States Post Office
  • Amtrak
  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
  • The War on Poverty
  • The Stimulus Bill
  • Cash for Clunkers
In 2010, I published 100% Failure Rate - Part II which highlighted the latest news about the insolvency of Social Security. 

Now, with almost six years of the Obama Administration under our belt, I thought it was time to update the federal governments absolutely heinous record of doing anything right. How about these?
  • Veteran's Affairs
  • Obamacare
  • The Secret Service
  • Fast and Furious
  • The Ebola outbreak
  • ISIS
  • Benghazi
  • The economy
  • The national debt
  • The IRS scandal
  • Welfare
  • The Obamacare website
  • Enforcing our borders

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Question for Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt, Google's Chairman, had this to say yesterday: 
“Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people—they’re just, they’re just literally lying.”
Dear Mr. Schmidt,

NO ONE DENIES THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS OCCURRING. One need only be a observer of nature to know that the climate does, indeed, change! For example, we have these things called seasons - Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring. 

With that cleared up, why don't you articulate to all of us liars and deniers your economy-killing solutions to stop nature from "changing"? Please explain what your nature-altering solutions will do to the standard of living of our "children and our grandchildren" and how your solutions will actually make "the world a much worse place".

Saturday, September 20, 2014

State Sucession

Short of a Convention of the States that institutes real reform and real limitations on the federal government's power, secession is the only other recourse we, the people, have from the overreaching federal, now national, government.

The findings of this Reuters/Ipsos poll are not surprising. The growth of Washington's power and wealth is easy to see. It grows regardless of which party is in power. We sit breathlessly each June waiting to hear what 9 lawyers deem constitutional. We allow 20% of our economy to be turned over to the feds despite the fact that socialized medicine produces worse results than our current system. Our national debt is approaching $18 trillion. Bush was "irresponsible and unpatriotic" for taking it from $5 trillion to $9 trillion. Our education system is a disaster. The list of federal failures and corruption is as long as the list of federal agencies: Postal Service, Fannie Mae, Social Security,  Medicare, Medicaid, Freddie Mac, Amtrak, Veteran's Affairs, the IRS, Obamacare, etc.

BEFORE A STATE CAN SERIOUSLY CONSIDER SECESSION, IT MUST WEAN ITSELF FROM DEPENDENCE ON THE FUNDS IT RECEIVES FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT and, of course, its citizens must wake up and demand change. Until then, we will get more of the same and worse.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/19/us-usa-secession-exclusive-idUSKBN0HE19U20140919

How the Liberal Mind Works: Divide, Disparage, and Maintain Dependency on Government

In an op-ed in the Buffalo News, New York Assemblyman Karim Camar was able to demonstrate the destructiveness of the theology of liberalism better in 750 words than Alan Colmes could on one of his three-hour daily radio shows.

Quote: "The major accomplishments of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 are being dismantled today by a dangerous and growing trend of income and wage inequalities."

A Pritical Thinker might pose the questions - What the hell is income and wage inequality? Does that mean it is wrong for some people to make more than others? Should everyone make the same amount of money Mr. Camar?

Perhaps some people make more money because they are deemed more valuable to employers than others due to their education, training, and experience. This may also occur, Mr. Camar, when individuals risk their own money and start businesses, work an ungodly number of hours each week (many times at low or no pay) in order to reap the potential benefits someday if their business is successful. All the while we have an embarrassingly large segment of our citizens being encouraged by the government to sit on their asses for years on end taking money from them with no expectation being set that the benefits are temporary.

Quote: "Aug. 31 marked 50 years since the federal government passed the Food Stamp Act, which established a national food assistance program. Today, the food stamp (SNAP) program is caught up in a political chess game that leaves millions of families to survive on about $70 per week. In a nation where soup kitchens now abound, where food pantries run near empty and where millions of our children rely on school meals, it is clear that this decades-old War on Poverty must be renewed with diligence and conviction."

A Pritical Thinker might ask Mr. Camar, what political chess match are you referring to? The one where the food stamp program has doubled since Barack Obama took office? I'd think you would call that CHECKMATE!

A Pritical Thinker would never allow Mr. Camar to make unsubstantiated claims about the abounding soup kitchens and empty food pantries without requiring some evidence.

Finally, how do you explain the fact that we have pumped some $20 trillion into the War on Poverty and poverty continues to stay the same or grow yet you want to renew the FAILED "decades-old War on Poverty". You sir must be insane because, what you are advocating for is the very definition of insanity.

Quote: "Recently, the International Monetary Fund documented that the richest 100 people on earth have as much wealth as 3.5 billion fellow human beings."

A Pritical Thinker knows that hustlers like Mr. Camar must perpetuate division among the people. Race and income are low-hanging fruit and easy to put forth. The question AGAIN for Mr. Camar, should these 100 richest people divide their wealth among the masses? Do you think that these "rich" people employee the rest of us who make their meals, manufacture their cars, build their houses, work at their businesses?

The shallowness of this type of thinking is truly breathtaking.