POLITICAL: Public pensions are really robbery!

Sunday, August 30, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/golden-parachutes-sink-us-all.html

Golden Parachutes for Public Retirees Will Sink Us All, Experts Say
by Teri Sforza

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Recently, the chief egghead for the gargantuan California Public Employees Retirement System said the same.

“I don’t want to sugarcoat anything,” said Ron Seeling, the CalPERS chief actuary, according to a story in the Capitol Weekly. “We are facing decades without significant turnarounds in assets, decades of – what I, my personal words, nobody else’s – unsustainable pension costs of between 25 percent of pay for a miscellaneous plan and 40 to 50 percent of pay for a safety plan (police and firefighters) … unsustainable pension costs. We’ve got to find some other solutions.”

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No doubt, while the article studies California, every one shares this problem.

Socialism!

Private industry has long ago switched to the 401K.

Why not the public sector?

Then we wouldn’t care how much they got at retirement. And we wouldn’t be a risk for it.

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POLITICAL: The Worst President in History?

Friday, August 28, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey16.1.html

Baby Bush: The Worst President in History?
by Doug Casey

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Catalog of disasters the Bush regime created.

   * No Child Left Behind.

   * Project Safe Neighborhoods

   * Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

   * Sarbanes-Oxley Act

   * Katrina.

   * Ownership Society

   * Nationalizations and Bailouts

   * Free-Speech Zones

   * The Patriot Act

   * The War on Terror

   * The scope of the War on Drugs

   * Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq

   * Dept. of Homeland Security

   * Guantanamo

   * Abu Ghraib and Torture

   * The No-Fly List

   * The TSA

   * Farm Subsidies

   * Legislative Free Ride

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An impressive list. But Lincoln still holds the title for “worst” with the “Civil” War. No comparison! Hard to top that!

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POLITICS: LBJ as a paragon?

Thursday, August 27, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/lbj-lead-way.html

Saturday, August 22, 2009

LBJ lead the way

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Lyndon Johnson had his faults — arrogance, for instance — and he misread Vietnam. But he committed himself to the war on poverty and civil rights and got a slew of legislation passed that seemed unlikely before he began his push.

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LBJ?

Seriously?

You’re not kidding?

The man who expanded the welfare warfare state. The man who was so bad that even his own party walked away from him about reelection. The man who could mke Chicago politics look honest.

Sorry, but if Obama is looking for inspiration, I wouldn’t urge him to look there. At least Carter was honest. Incompetent, but honest.

We need a true “peace” president. Let’s start closing bases and bringing the boys and girls home. Use the savings to pay down the debt.

We need an entrepreneurial president. Eliminate the capital gains tax; free up capital. Eliminate the corporate income tax; corporations will rush to HQ here in the USA. Besides, corporations don’t pay taxes; people do. Eliminate price supports and payments NOT to grow stuff. Let’s feed the world!

We need a “simple” president. Simplify everything. We need people to focus on “producing”; not “loophole finding”. Tort reform. End the psuedo drug war. Shut down the FDA. Shut down the TSA. Shut down the Department of Education.

We have a lot of work to do.

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POLITICS: The last of the imperial Kennedys?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/08/23/kennedy_should_resign/

Kennedy should resign
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / August 23, 2009
The Boston Globe

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RUNNING for reelection in 1982, Senator Ted Kennedy aired a series of sentimental television ads in which longtime supporters spoke of him as an empathetic human being who was no stranger to suffering and sorrow. One of those supporters was 83-year-old Frank Manning, founder of the Massachusetts Association of Older Americans. “He’s not a plaster saint, he’s not without his faults,’’ Manning said in the ad. “But we wouldn’t want a plaster saint.’’

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They say speak no ill of the dead.

Sorry, but even now we can call them as we see them.

Kennedy’s conduct was an insult to anyone with a shred of human decency. Mary Jo was whitewashed. Any one else would have spent time in jail. What else has been covered over to keep him in office? Disgraceful. More disgraceful to the “liberal leftist” press who failed their sacred trust.

Further, he was a CINO. The classic example of a Catholic In Name Only. He gave public scandal by voting for abortion and everyone gives him a free pass.

It’s not my job to judge. Above my pay grade. But he’s one I don’t understand. Silver spoon and all. He had it all and squandered it.

Eye of the needle.

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POLITICS: The D’s and the R’s are the WWF of politics!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente12.1.html

That Sinking Feeling
by Achal Mehra
August 19, 2009

Quoting Gerald Celente

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Do you think either political party could have made a difference?

No, it is like watching the World Wrestling Federation. They pretend to be arch-enemies on the stage. After the cameras go off, they do their deals together. There is very little difference between the two parties.

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Chortle! I love the metaphor. The D’s and the R’s are the WWF of politics!

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POLITICAL: Bring on the filibuster!

Monday, August 24, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/koyfng

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Senate Democratic leadership will pass health care reform “by any legislative means necessary”

ABC News

“Amidst questions of whether or not any Senate Republicans will support a health care reform bill, Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., today said that the ‘White House and the Senate Democratic leadership still prefer a bipartisan bill.’ The Reid spokesman said that ‘neither the White House nor the leadership have made a decision to pursue reconciliation,’ the somewhat controversial legislative process by which a bill is introduced in such a manner so that it requires merely 50 votes instead of 60 to proceed to a vote, thus removing the threat of filibuster.” (08/19/09)

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No, if I was the R’s, then I’d force them to bring Teddie and KKK-er Byrd in a force the end of a filibuster. Make it clear that “over dead bodies” does anything pass.

Time to stand up and be counted.

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POLITICAL: Skipping a funeral

Friday, August 21, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107092

Another Obama mistake
Posted: August 17, 2009
Barbara Simpson

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Did anyone in the Washington ruling party, from the president on down, notice that the remains of Navy pilot Capt. Michael “Scott” Speicher were found, positively identified and buried with military honors in Jacksonville last week?

If not, why not?

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Good question?

Seems like everyone has forgotten that we have boys and girls in harm’s way.

The speech at the VFW seemed to ignore that when he talked about only sending them when it was important!

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POLITICAL: Terminate the TSA

Saturday, August 15, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125012447548327753.html

Airlines to Require More Passenger Data
By CAM SIMPSON

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WASHINGTON — Airlines this week will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping boarding passes out of the hands of suspected terrorists, the Transportation Security Administration said.

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I’ve got a novel idea. Let’s nuke the TSA. Make airlines responsible for security. Could they possibly do a worse job than the gooferment?

And, we won’t have to pay salaries and gooferment pensions to all these folks.

Why is the taxpayer in the business of running airport security? Why is the taxpayer in the airport business? Why is the taxpayer in the airline business?

You get the idea!

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POLITICAL: Pay the big gang off first

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

http://www.parojo.com/news/content/DR_DOOLITTLE_CLOSED_08-09-09_ITFAOKI_v45.39864d3.html

Pet store shut over sales-tax nonpayment
01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, August 9, 2009
By Alex Kuffner
Journal Staff Writer

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He went to the Division of Taxation in Providence on July 30 to deliver a check for $4,500 — all the money he had on hand. He asked if he could keep the pet shop on Newport Avenue open long enough to liquidate by selling off the animals. The tax representative said no.

The next day, he returned to file tax forms that were overdue. A representative told him that if he paid another $10,000, he would be allowed to reopen. He said he didn’t have the money. He asked what would happen if he defied the order and was told he could be fined and imprisoned. He left the office in tears, escorted out by a supervisor.

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Make no mistake about it, the gooferment is a criminal gang. Heartless and money hungry. And, dont stand in their way.

In a perverse sort of a way, they are doing the fellow a favor forcing him out of business. A money losing business.

But, force leads to force.

In this case, it’s wasy to see the guns of government.

Aren’t you ashamed at what is done in your name?

I am.

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POLITICS: CA IOUs; CA says “No”

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

California Won’t Accept Its Own IOUs

By MARIA DINZEO

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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Small businesses that received $682 million in IOUs from the state say California expects them to pay taxes on the worthless scraps of paper, but refuses to accept its own IOUs to pay debts or taxes.

via Courthouse News Service.

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Don’t you find this ironic? I do. On so many levels. Why should any one take their paper? Is it even legal? Really legal; not what the gooferment’s own courts say. Seems not!

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