Free kibbles

FREE SPEECH:

Hugo Chavez isn't as smart as Barack Obama. If he was, he'd just say he shut down this TV station for national security reasons. Then instead of resisting on free speech grounds, the people would just shut up and nod their heads or support the decision like they do in the US.

ECONOMY:

White House advisor says Obama turned the economy around. I guess she means made it worse, which was his goal.

Peter Schiff slams Obama over his new Wall Street regulation proposal.

"Once again, President Obama completely missed the mark on the causes of and solutions to the financial crisis. In his speech this morning, the President outlined a major initiative to increase regulation of banks. He claims the financial crisis was caused by reckless speculation by greedy bankers in search of quick profits. What he fails to acknowledge is that this behavior was the direct result of the cheap credit supplied by the Federal Reserve and the moral hazard supplied by government regulations and subsidies.

In his efforts to prevent the next financial crisis, the President is focused on the symptoms rather than the disease. Therefore, his attempt to prevent future financial crises is doomed to failure, as the misguided policies that led to the last crisis are preserved while even more damaging policies are added. Current Fed policy is more reckless than before; continued subsidies to the mortgage market and the bailouts for banks are creating even bigger moral hazards; and, as a result, the economy is even more leveraged and more vulnerable to rising interest rates than ever.

The only way to prevent another financial crisis would be to reverse the fiscal and monetary policies that lead to the last crisis, and which now threaten to bring on an ever larger one. However, this Administration seems to lack the brains or the guts to do it."

Neither. They're doing exactly what they want in order to collapse the US economy. Obama's economic team is telling him that his policies are bad for the economy. Obama sees the rapidly growing secessionist movement out there. He's crashing our economy and trying to start a revolution while empowering his socialist and communist buddies in hopes they'll win the revolution. He told us he wants a presidency like Lincoln. Only evil or insane men would want to have a presidency like Lincoln. He wants to spark a revolution, turn the military on the American people, crush the revolution like Lincoln did and implement a Marxist government in America. Whenever you wonder about Obama's policies, just ask yourself, what would Lenin do?

EDUCATION:

How Obama's "Race to the Top" central planning education initiative is as damaging as Bush's "No Child Left Behind".

"When the federal government decides it’s too risky to usurp the powers reserved to the states respectively, or to the people with outright force or fraud, it often employs a softer approach involving bribery. It should surprise no one that the Department of Education (DOE), under President Obama, is at it again."

Central planning is always doomed to fail.

POLITICS:

Knowing full well that the people don't want him to, Obama vows to continue to collapse America. He knew all along the people would reject his agenda. Nobody wants America to collapse around their ears (but apparently Americans are too dumb to stop voting for the aristocrats who are collapsing it around our ears). That's why he tried to ram it all through Congress ultra-fast before the people turned on him. Fortunately, Republicans managed to slow the process as the people woke up to what Obama was forcing on us.

Obama looks to Bill Clinton for answers. Thank goodness. I was afraid he'd look to Chairman Mao.

LOCAL:

John Kasich plans to abolish Ohio's income tax. Naturally Democrats hate this idea. They prefer Ohio to die a lingering painful death like California. The problem with phasing it out over 10 years is the benefits won't been seen right away but the costs will. That will make it pretty much impossible to sustain the policy over 10 years. We'd be better off abolishing it all at once so the economy could start growing again in a year. Then voters would have pictures of economic growth to offset pictures of closed down services. Kasich knows this, so I'm skeptical he really intends to carry out this policy. More likely it's a political ploy. It's easy to say you want to abolish income taxes 10 years after you take office in order to get elected while setting up the circumstances to insure it can never happen. I don't trust the news, the Republicans or the Democrats.

MISC:

The outrageous sex lives of teens. Government domination of our lives corrodes and corrupts society in far reaching ways.

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