Free kibbles

FASCISM:

The US is following about five years behind Argentina on the Road to Serfdom. The similarities to Argentina 2003 and US 2008 are stunning and the implications terrifying.

Indiana Treasurer angrily describes the abuses of power the Obama Administration used to strong-arm through the Chrysler bankruptcy.

TAX AND SPEND:

Democrats to increase spending by 12 percent next year. I hope anybody who ever thought that anybody in either party was putting our best interest ahead of his or her best interest is finally over that.

"For a laugh-out-loud moment on all of this, we recommend yesterday's performance by New York Senator Chuck Schumer on NBC's "Meet the Press." Mr. Schumer declared that "Barack Obama and we Democrats—this is counterintuitive but true—are really trying to get a handle on balancing the budget and we're making real efforts to do it." Counterintiutive? He said this four days after Senate Democrats lost a vote to add $250 billion to the deficit for doctor payments without any compensating spending cuts."

If and when Republicans get back power, they'll slow growth to seven percent or so and act like they did us a favor.

ECONOMY:

Growth in unproductive government sector jobs is hiding the unprecedented loss of productive, private sector jobs.

Of course Obama has declared war on Wall Street. All those idiots who thought Obama was a friend of Wall Street because he bailed them out can't see the forest for the trees. Obama bailed them out to help crush our economic system. Now he's attacking the executives on pay to drive the best and brightest out of that industry, causing those companies to fail. He plans to blame the failure of these companies on the market, not his assault on them. Finally, he plans to seize control of the entire financial segment of our economy and nationalize the Wall Street firms. The Fed is carrying out a parallel attack on banks. This is all part of a bigger, orchestrated plan to bring about Marxism in America.

"Moral of the story: Wall Streeters are greedy when they try to earn money for their families, shareholders and the taxpayers to whom they’re now indebted — but not when they’re forking over cash to Democratic pols."

Yep.

HEALTH CARE:

Senate health care bill coming to the floor today or tomorrow.

Contrary to what leftists have been proclaiming, many industries are more profitable than health insurance and health care.

Democrats want us to believe they can lower health care prices by taxing it. You don't have to be Milton Friedman to understand the consequences of this. Prices will go up, so demand will go down. Profits will fall as demand drops. In response, supply will drop until profits stabilize. The end result is worse health care at a higher price, a reduction in quality of life, with all the negative economic consequences that follow that, and a reduction in life expectancy. This is the attack on profits I've been warning about that threatens to drag the entire world into a new health care dark ages.

This opt-out option for the states is a red herring. As soon as the legislation passes, Obama will threaten to cut off funding to any state that opts out. Cato explains that since government will take money from the people of the states by force to fund the public option, state citizens won't allow state governments to opt out.

Health insurance industry ranks 86th highest in profitability.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Obama not going to Copenhagen global warming fraud conference in December, but he is going to Oslo during that time. None of the excuses listed here make sense. Why would the Narcissist-in-Chief pass up a chance to grandstand with his commie buddies in the global warming scam? This article doesn't mention a very likely possibility - he's not going because tax and trade legislation won't be passed here. Easier to blame the failure on China and India, but the American people aren't the fools Obama takes us for.

EDUCATION:

Indoctrinating school kids into government love with the census. What else would you expect?

More evidence of the worthlessness of a bachelor's degree - lack of professionalism keeps grads from getting jobs.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Another bad aspect of the war on drugs is that domestic federal agencies like the DEA now routinely operate outside the US. Not only do we use our military to play policeman of the world, we use our policemen to play policeman of the world as the deaths of DEA agents in Afghanistan highlights. The hubris of this can only hurt America.

WAR:

It costs about $1 billion a year for every 1,000 troops in Afghanistan. It's nice to know that Obama cares about cost of troops. Too bad he doesn't care about the tremendously higher cost of his domestic programs.

POLITICS:

Some are speculating that Obama is delaying his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, which you know is the decision he's going to make since he's not going to admit he was wrong, until after the gubernatorial elections in November. He doesn't want to alienate liberals right before those elections. That sounds par for the course for Obama - playing politics with the lives of Americans.

Obama and Democrats continue to alienate the American people at a record pace. They've earned our antipathy, and we shouldn't hesitate to make that clear. And Republicans still refuse to capitalize on this, choosing not to change a thing and just say, "No matter how terrible we were and will be again, Democrats are worse, so vote for us again."

Government officials receiving more threats than ever. Like I said, they're earning them. It's all part of Obama's plan to foment a revolution.

Apparently Obama doesn't have enough czars so John Kerry is stepping up. Does that mean my TV will have that guy on it more often too?

MISC:

History of printing.

So what should happen when a police officer pulls over a driver who doesn't speak English? It's not the officer's responsibility to know any language other than English. I guess the officer should just ticket them and give them the ticket and the same explanation as anybody else. If the person fails to take care of the ticket, that's his or her own responsibility.

Maybe the Palestinians should develop their own economy instead of living in squalor and depending on the Israelis and others for necessities like water.