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SOCIALISM:

Obama allows TSA to unionize. You know they will. Overcoming them after that will be that much harder. We can only hope they strike so airports and airlines will kick them out.

ECONOMY:

It's a sad fact of life that it's far easier to find a job when you have a job than when you don't.

"But Forte, a 55-year-old from Cleveland, says a recruiter for an employment agency told her she would not be considered for the job because she had been out of work too long. She had lost her job driving a bus."

Hiring managers definitely discriminate against the unemployed. But government isn't the solution. The solution is to get the government out of our economy because in a robust economy, workers are in the drivers seat.

TAX AND SPEND:

Cato's Michael Tanner blasts Republicans for budget cowardice.

"Entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare are off the table, as is defense spending. Homeland security and veterans’ programs would also be spared any cuts. Removing those categories, along with interest on the debt, exempts 83 percent of the budget from any serious cuts. Rolling back the remaining spending to 2008 levels would save barely $100 billion, 2.8 percent of federal spending. That’s a drop in the bucket compared with our $1.3 trillion deficit."

I doubt they'll cut that much. These are Republicans we're talking about.

Obama continues to pretend the stimulus boondoggle helped the economy.

"Speaking at the National Press Club in September, outgoing Council of Economic Advisors Chair Christina Romer crowed that “the Recovery Act has played a large role in the turnaround in GDP and employment,” citing as evidence an estimate she prepared before Obama’s inauguration that a stimulus package “would raise real GDP by about 3.5 percent and employment by about 3.5 million jobs, relative to what would otherwise have occurred.”"

What else is he going to do? Say it failed? Is he going to admit everything he did since he entered office make our lives worse? Of course not.

Federal employees owe $3.3 billion in back taxes. This is why they support higher taxes. They don't pay them, but they get paid by them.

Dumb*** Americans reject plans to tinker around the edges of government abuse.

"Groups representing seniors and working-class Americans, such as the Campaign for America's Future, criticized the latest deficit-reduction plan in the nation's capital — this one by the independent Bipartisan Policy Center — because it would reduce future Social Security benefits and turn Medicare into a voucher program.

Anti-tax groups, including Americans for Tax Reform, lambasted the plan out Wednesday because it would slash tax breaks for millions of Americans and create a new, 6.5% national sales tax similar to those in most European nations."

That's like humanitarian groups opposing plans to use sharper knives to cut Americans' throats. Big, unconstitutional government has made our government and the special interests which power it insane. We're the stupidest people the world has ever known for throwing away our heritage of freedom, and our children will spit on our graves unless they're even stupider than we are.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Ron Paul on the welcome public scrutiny of the Fed.

HEALTH CARE:

Remember when Democrats and Obama told us there wouldn't be any death panels?

"A liver-disease patient missed his opportunity for an organ transplant Tuesday, becoming the most dire example yet of an Arizonan denied life-saving medical care because of budget cuts to the state's health-care system for the poor."

Some bureaucrat just sentenced this man to death. Sounds like a death panel to me. But I wouldn't be surprised to see a private sector actor save his life, or try to, because that's what people free from government do. Like this:

"Last month, Goodyear, Ariz., leukemia patient Mark Price became a poster child for the impact of the budget cuts after his doctor found donors who matched his bone marrow a day after Price lost coverage. Price's story gained attention nationally and an anonymous donor later covered all costs for his surgery."

Government is an impersonal killer. Free individuals are sympathetic and work with their fellow men to solve their problems. Freedom is the solution to our care system problems, and all our other systemic problems as well.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Good satire of the global warming movement.

Solar cycle 24 continues to be a dud.

Canadian Senate votes down climate change bill.

WAR ON DRUGS:

FDA to ban alcoholic energy drinks.

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will effectively ban the sale of beverages that combine caffeine and alcohol, including Four Loko and Joose, by ruling that caffeine is an unsafe food additive, according to Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)."

Caffeine is an unsafe food additive? Remember when government acknowledged it had to pass a constitutional amendment to ban something? Not anymore.

"First they came for raw milk and I didn’t speak up because I only drink pasteurized.

Then they came for trans fats and I didn’t speak up because I don’t eat trans fats.

Then they came for added salt in restaurants and I didn’t speak up because I don’t eat out.

Then they came for the four lokos and everyone was too amped up to speak up."

Our children will spit on our graves because empowered government to destroy the greatest country the world has ever known.

POLICE STATE:

Good question:

"Mr. President: Would you send Michelle/Sasha/Malia through TSA screening? Naked photos or invasive genital groping, you choose."

Of course not. The ruling class need not submit. Only the little people must submit.

Remember when I said the TSA is violating the Fourth Amendment? Guess what they think about that:

"Listen to this statement from former assistant TSA administration Mo McGowan. He says it, point blank. He says, "Nobody likes the 4th amendment being violated when going through the security line, but the truth of the matter is we are going to have to do it.""

Remember when government admitted it had to change the Constitution to do stuff like this? About 100 years ago? We have nobody to blame for these abuses but ourselves. We still have ultimate power over our government, probably not for much longer, but we have it today, and we empowered our government to do this to us.

"Question ... have any American airlines spoken out about these procedures? As of right now, the only complaints that I can find actually come from Europe - a British Airways chairman - who complained that US security measures (demanded of by the US government, by the way) were "completely redundant." He may have even said that before our new TSA requirements went into effect. Maybe some U.S. Airlines will step forward and go on the record about these TSA abuses when their ridership starts being affected."

Unfortunately government is god to corporations. Government can destroy a corporation with a stroke of pen like from a lightning bolt. Corporations fear speaking out against the government. But you can bet the airlines are talking to the government behind the scenes. Here's another reason the airlines and airports might keep quiet: liability. With TSA in charge of security, they can't be held liable for an attack. That's why we need to hitting them in the pocketbook to get them to change their outlook.

One of the original authors of the TSA law says TSA was never supposed to grow this big and impersonal. Baloney. Every government bureaucracy does this. This guy's just reading the political winds and jumping on board. It was politically expedient to create the TSA at the time, so he did. Now it's politically expedient to trash them, so he is.

Petition for the TSA to stop enhanced screening fails to mention the Fourth Amendment.

Do you still think that government is our servant? Do you think government exists to protect our rights? Do you think government works for us? Maybe this will finally set you straight:

""If you are asking me, am I going to change my policies? No," Pistole told the committee."

There you go. Imagine of a company in a competitive marketplace took this attitude. It would be bankrupt in no time.

I've often said that ridicule is the best way to overcome oppression, so God bless Steven Colbert.

WAR:

How about these twisted headlines about a Guantanamo detainee? 1.

"Man Convicted in '98 Attacks"

and 2.

"Gitmo detainee acquitted of 280 counts dating to 1998 African bombings"

Can they be any more opposite? This kind of baloney is why the newspaper industry is dying. Why would anybody pick up a paper for news when the news is this random?

POLITICS:

Democrats easily elect Nancy Pelosi as minority leader. Apparently they like getting wiped out at the polls so much, they want to do it again.

Leftist pot is calling the Palin kettle black. This is nuts. The fruitcakes can attack the Palins from all sides, but if one of them is politically incorrect in response, the press kills the Palins.

MISC:

It's long be said that as California goes, so goes the nation. But after 2010, when California voted to commit suicide, will Texas become the model the US follows? Let's hope so, but don't count on it.