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SOCIALISM:

Since GM can't sell any of the crappy electric cars Obama forced it to make, it wants the government to give anybody who buys one a $7,500, taxpayer funded, rebate. Stop the looting.

ECONOMY:

One of the most visible effects of government's looting of the people is housing prices. They're down everywhere in the country but Washington D.C. and San Diego. If you've been to San Diego, you know why they haven't dropped there. They haven't dropped in D.C. because government is stealing money from us and enriching the aristocrats and bureaucrats.

TAX AND SPEND:

Eric Cantor splits with Boehner over budget compromises. Democrats love this, but the Boehner's the problem, not Cantor. Democrats think they'll win the political battle if Congress shuts down the government, but I don't think so. This isn't 1995. Though so far, no Republican has made the case that cutting spending will be good for the economy.

If you accept the idea of government looting people then handing the money out to others to buy votes, then making them work for it instead of looting the people more to pay workers makes sense. Better to stop the looting.

The cost of the devastation in Japan is inconceivable, but here's an attempt to compare it to the cost of the US federal government, which is far greater.

"Japan's Cabinet Office on Wednesday estimated the catastrophe...could cause losses between 16 trillion yen ($198 billion) and 25 trillion yen ($309 billion). That figure compares with estimates from the World Bank and Goldman Sachs for losses of $235 billion and $200 billion, respectively."
"CBO estimates that the deficit in February 2011 was $223 billion, which is very similar to the deficit recorded in February 2010."

So the tsunami in Japan about as much damage than one month of the federal deficit. That doesn't count the much greater damage that was done by federal spending that was paid for.

REGULATION:

Government regulation, especially by the FTC which nobody seems to know about, is so sick that Google agrees to 20 years of privacy monitoring.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The establishment is hiding food inflation by pretending that smaller products are the result of environmentalism, portability or health concerns. Bulls***.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Charts show that the US would have been reducing CO2 emissions since the 1970s if we had built the nuclear power plants we had planned. Once again the environmentalists are shown to be frauds because they blocked so many plants that CO2 emissions rose.

Government blocks America's untapped energy resources.

"An Interior Department report to be released Tuesday says more than two-thirds of offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico are sitting idle.According to the report, obtained by The Associated Press, those inactive swaths of the Gulf could potentially hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The report also shows that 45 percent of all onshore oil and gas leases are inactive.
President Barack Obama ordered the Interior Department review earlier this month amid pressure to curb rising gas prices. The White House says Obama will address his plans for the country's energy security during a speech in Washington Wednesday."

The solution to our energy problems is easy: take away government's unconstitutional control over them. The idea that government leases sites for oil and natural gas drilling is an abomination.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Lew Rockwell get it exactly right on the Barry Bonds witch-hunt.

"Government operatives–with the help of journalistic snitches for the regime–are still persecuting baseball great Barry Bonds for allegedly improving his performance via steroids. How many millions have they spent? Not that they care, since it is not their money, and they can use it to enhance their careers of oppression. It is the typical case of social parasites using the government gun to attack a man who has actually benefited society. Was Barry fooled? Did he knowingly improve his already great baseball skills in this way? What decent person thinks he should be caged like an animal if he did? And if he violated his contract with the San Francisco Giants, let them sue him."

Absolutely.

WAR:

The American Thinker is scared that Obama is scared of projecting American power. Maybe the author missed the escalation of the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and the launch of the new war in Libya. If that's being scared of American power, I'm scared of anybody who isn't. I wonder if this is part of a huge conspiracy to deluding the American people or if this guy really believes that rhetoric, not actions, are reality.

"Despite his amazing rise to power, Barack Obama clings to beliefs that are rare and, frankly, shocking for an American president to hold: namely, that America is a deeply flawed nation that lacks the moral authority to wield disproportionate global influence."

What a joke. First he confuses America's criminal government with the American people. Second he pretends that Obama isn't comfortable with wielding power himself, which is absurd given the two years of destruction he brought down on us and foreigners.

Confirmation that American forces are working with rebels in Libya. I don't consent.

Obama calls on Bill Krystal and other neocons to build support for his war on Libya.

POLITICS:

I always enjoy it when some politician is accidentally honest. In this case, somebody left Chuck Schumer's microphone on:

"Label the GOP spending cuts as extreme. I always use extreme. That is what the caucus instructed me to use."

As entertaining as the political gamesmanship is, what I find more interesting is that Schumer takes his marching orders from "the caucus". That might mean the Democrat caucus, but not necessarily.

MEDIA:

I can't help but laugh at this headline:

"Obama Adds New Luster to Old Calls for Energy Independence"

With that kind of praise for Obama, you might be surprised to find this paragraph at the beginning of the article:

"President Obama's speech at Georgetown University on Wednesday echoed four decades of U.S. energy policy-making, which--since the 1973 Arab oil embargo--has been unable to avert periodic oil shocks. This isn't the first time that Obama has banged the energy drum, either. The issue was a staple of his election campaign, which coincided with record oil prices above $145 a barrel."

Of course. Repeating the false and absurd rhetoric of the past and combining that with the destructive policies of the past "adds new luster" to the failure of government to allow people to develop efficient energy sources. Remember how we keep hearing the WSJ is a conservative organ? Not so much.

LOCAL:

Beavercreek city council demands new studies from RTA.

"Watched by a group of protesters with signs saying, “Let the People Ride,” council members brought up a host of concerns for city staff to study, including police cost, security, surveillance cameras, trash pickup, graffiti cleanup, pedestrian crosswalks, the size of the buses, fencing, lighting and whether the stops needed heating and cooling systems."

This sounds like a cover for discrimination to me. Council rejects bus stops. Claim that Greene's existing mass transit is insufficient to meet demand.

"Several Council members cited a study that found 82 percent of Beavercreek’s residents were against RTA stops.Tuesday morning, the Dayton Daily News asked city officials to provide that information. The city had not done so by Tuesday evening.
According to a 2008 Fallon Research study for Beavercreek, 49 percent favored a public transit system and 43 opposed it.
The same survey indicated that 68 percent favored expansion of Greene CATS service and that residents were against RTA service 57 percent to 38 percent."

One of the council members said Montgomery County was wasting taxpayer money. No doubt, but what does she care?

MISC:

Jeffrey Tucker explains the difference between scarce and non-scarce goods and how religion, because it often deals with non-scarce goods, sometimes makes its followers economically ignorant. I notice more economic ignorance from the left than the right.

Great letter from man who left Illinois for Texas. I wouldn't call any government honest, but Illinois, especially around Chicago is arguably the worst in the country.