How many more American institutions can the Obama administration find and target for intervention. Taking a page from the Rules for Radicals, the Alinsky adherents have put the pedal to the metal since getting slapped in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
Nancy Pelosi has sworn to push the health care agenda; Cap and Tax may yet come to pass in spite of the growing fraud that is "climate change"; and now Obama's runaway Justice Department is going after college football:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/01/obama-administration-may-investigate-controversial-college-football-bowl-system.html
These people are freakin' nuts! They would be better off trying an open overthrow of our Republic rather than messing with football. Voters will now surely rise up and drive a political stake into the heart of the Democrat Party.
If ever there were a case for cessesion, this is it.
Expect the next target of USAG Eric Holder to be NASCAR.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Who Needs The Big One
How long have we faced the inevitable "Big One"? That is the monster earthquake that will make those old retirees living in their double-wides in Havasu City the happy owners of beach-front property.
Forget about that. The Big One is going to hit this year. Will California pull back from the brink or will we be living in the first state in the union to actually declare bankruptcy. Decades of liberal Democrat spending; wacko enviro-nazi nuts; animal rights fascists; and idiot activists are an irresistible force about to collide with an immovable object - the taxpayer's ability to pay.
California has been cobbling together fraudulent budgets in ever decreasing cycles putting off the inevitable. The people of California have run out of their ability to pay more. The union owned and operated California legislature will never stop spending money. The hapless - no, useless, Republican Party in California is unable to elect a governor with backbone.
Our legislature has gerrymandered itself into a permanent Democrat majority. Now we face the ultimate nightmare. Governor Moonbeam is about to rise from his political grave to take back the seat of his power in Sacramento. This time he will have the most liberal socialist-oriented majority of Dems in history. Califoria is quickly becoming the Nanny Statist's wet dream.
Cap and Trade (California style); the doubling of every tax in existence; the creation of every new tax imaginable; even the prospect of the death of Prop. 13 could be in our future.
And still, California will run out of cash before the mid-point of the fiscal year 2010-11. Anybody who earns a living in California will be moving to Yuma, Lake Havasu, Bullhead City and even Pahrump. This would be a disaster for property values.
Then what?
The Big One. California will inevitably default on its bonds and declare bankruptcy.
Then what?
Retirement benefits from the state's public entities (state and local government, police, fire fighters, university employees, etc.) will be toast. California's bond holders will be out of luck. Public schools will close. Universities will be reduced to skeletal remains depending totally on research funds from the federal government and corporations. Statewide infrastructure will quickly begin disintegrating.
The effect of a California bankruptcy will be far more devastating than if we fell into the Pacific from a 10.5 shaker along the entire length of the San Andreas Fault.
Of course, the lessons learned from California's fiscal and political disaster may be just the lesson needed to wake up the pols in DC and get them to reduce and retool the federal government to manageable levels.
We may not know when the Big One (earthquake) will hit, although we know it will. However, we can easily predict the end of the Golden State of California. If $9B is not cut in about 90 days the state runs out of cash. This will be the first tremor.
There is no more room to borrow (our credit rating is crap) and we can't fake and trick the budget without serious reductions in state government.
My serious belief is that the declaration will be considered by November of this year. I pray it will not be necessary.
I would like to invite any ideas on how to return the Republic of California to fiscal sanity. Here are a few areas on which to focus:
1. Cut their pay and time in Sacramento. I support the initiative to return the California legislature to part-time status. Link to www.reformcal.com
2. When I was working, my car was not provided free of charge along with an employer-paid gas credit card and free auto insurance. Our employees in the state legislature should not have this perk either.
3. 118 boards and commissions were recommended for closure by the California Performance Review. I think that number is conservative.
There are so many ways to reduce expenditures. Most will actually improve the lives of Californians because a better focus on the real needs of the people will result when the bureaucrats concentrate on fewer appropriate tasks that serve our needs as opposed to the needs of unions, corporate interests, and others.
Quote of the day - "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat
~Paul M. Laperruque
Forget about that. The Big One is going to hit this year. Will California pull back from the brink or will we be living in the first state in the union to actually declare bankruptcy. Decades of liberal Democrat spending; wacko enviro-nazi nuts; animal rights fascists; and idiot activists are an irresistible force about to collide with an immovable object - the taxpayer's ability to pay.
California has been cobbling together fraudulent budgets in ever decreasing cycles putting off the inevitable. The people of California have run out of their ability to pay more. The union owned and operated California legislature will never stop spending money. The hapless - no, useless, Republican Party in California is unable to elect a governor with backbone.
Our legislature has gerrymandered itself into a permanent Democrat majority. Now we face the ultimate nightmare. Governor Moonbeam is about to rise from his political grave to take back the seat of his power in Sacramento. This time he will have the most liberal socialist-oriented majority of Dems in history. Califoria is quickly becoming the Nanny Statist's wet dream.
Cap and Trade (California style); the doubling of every tax in existence; the creation of every new tax imaginable; even the prospect of the death of Prop. 13 could be in our future.
And still, California will run out of cash before the mid-point of the fiscal year 2010-11. Anybody who earns a living in California will be moving to Yuma, Lake Havasu, Bullhead City and even Pahrump. This would be a disaster for property values.
Then what?
The Big One. California will inevitably default on its bonds and declare bankruptcy.
Then what?
Retirement benefits from the state's public entities (state and local government, police, fire fighters, university employees, etc.) will be toast. California's bond holders will be out of luck. Public schools will close. Universities will be reduced to skeletal remains depending totally on research funds from the federal government and corporations. Statewide infrastructure will quickly begin disintegrating.
The effect of a California bankruptcy will be far more devastating than if we fell into the Pacific from a 10.5 shaker along the entire length of the San Andreas Fault.
Of course, the lessons learned from California's fiscal and political disaster may be just the lesson needed to wake up the pols in DC and get them to reduce and retool the federal government to manageable levels.
We may not know when the Big One (earthquake) will hit, although we know it will. However, we can easily predict the end of the Golden State of California. If $9B is not cut in about 90 days the state runs out of cash. This will be the first tremor.
There is no more room to borrow (our credit rating is crap) and we can't fake and trick the budget without serious reductions in state government.
My serious belief is that the declaration will be considered by November of this year. I pray it will not be necessary.
I would like to invite any ideas on how to return the Republic of California to fiscal sanity. Here are a few areas on which to focus:
1. Cut their pay and time in Sacramento. I support the initiative to return the California legislature to part-time status. Link to www.reformcal.com
2. When I was working, my car was not provided free of charge along with an employer-paid gas credit card and free auto insurance. Our employees in the state legislature should not have this perk either.
3. 118 boards and commissions were recommended for closure by the California Performance Review. I think that number is conservative.
There are so many ways to reduce expenditures. Most will actually improve the lives of Californians because a better focus on the real needs of the people will result when the bureaucrats concentrate on fewer appropriate tasks that serve our needs as opposed to the needs of unions, corporate interests, and others.
Quote of the day - "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat
~Paul M. Laperruque
"Trust Me Charlie Brown"
Trust was the lure used by dear Lucy van Pelt to entice poor Charlie Brown to kick the football. Of course no matter how many times Charlie trusts Lucy he always ends up on his backside looking up at the sky.
Well, dear friends, the poor stupid Republicans are once again being seduced by those dastardly Dems into trying to kick the football. Every time the Democrats get spanked in an election we can count on the same reaction. The determined ones are in no way going to let a little electoral stupidity by the unruly locals derail their plans to control us all.
Recall please the amazing reversal of power in 1994. As the year began the Democrats were at the helm of all power in DC. We were all careening toward the cliff on the runaway train called HillaryCare. Then the November to Remember. Not just a spanking - the mighty unwashed in fly-over country tossed the bums out and put in a new set of bums. Newt's gang was in control and the Senate was basically a split decision.
What was the party of Bill to do? Simple. First, blame their reversal of fortune not on their un-American policies, but on the unreasonable anger of the people. That anger of course was caused by the unreasonable blockade of those rascally do-nothing Republicans.
Then the seduction begins. The Republicans were woefully unprepared for power. Newt Gingrich is a genius and pulled of a modern political miracle with the Contract With America. However, the party bosses did not have faith in Newt's ability to run the House. The Senate was even worse.
Newt could not be seduced so the left-wing willing accomplices who control the nation's media began a brutal campaign of character assassination. The birth of Fox News Channel was nearly two years away. Rush Limbaugh was just over mid-way into his first decade on the air. The big broadcast news programs were still king along with the NY Times and Washington Post.
Poor hapless Bob Dole was now the Senate Majority Leader. Senator Dole is a hero of the Greatest Generation. He is an honest and honorable man. He wanted nothing more than to be an honest broker to advance American Exceptionalism. Unfortunately, the opposition didn't give a damn about what is good for America. Tom Daschle and his cronies cared only about being out of power.
Bottom line is the Democrats launched their predictable mantra of "moderation and cooperation" and seduction.
As usual, the Republicans fell for it, ran up to the football and ended up on their collective butts.
Newt was hounded into retirement. Bob Dole retired. And the Republicans sowed the seeds of their destruction by acting like Democrats and spending our children into near serfdom to the state.
Here we go again. The Democrats have lost their bulletproof Senate majority. They may likely lose the House, or at least end up in a virtual deadlock, in November.
The campaign to seduce the Republicans has begun. Today, President Obama actually met with the Republicans for the first face-to-face since his election. The voices of 'moderation' within the Republican party are tuning up their siren's song. The Dem's lapdog press is advocating 'co-operation'. All this as a preemptive strike to blunt the momentum of a new Republican Revolution and to avoid another 1994.
The Big Question. Will the Republicans run up and try to kick the football again? Or will they launch a hard kick into the backside to the Democrats by sticking to conservative Ronald Reagan principals?
As the song goes "...I'll get on my knees and pray - we won't get fooled again." [Hat tip to The Who]
Until the next epiphany,
~Paul M. Laperruque
Well, dear friends, the poor stupid Republicans are once again being seduced by those dastardly Dems into trying to kick the football. Every time the Democrats get spanked in an election we can count on the same reaction. The determined ones are in no way going to let a little electoral stupidity by the unruly locals derail their plans to control us all.
Recall please the amazing reversal of power in 1994. As the year began the Democrats were at the helm of all power in DC. We were all careening toward the cliff on the runaway train called HillaryCare. Then the November to Remember. Not just a spanking - the mighty unwashed in fly-over country tossed the bums out and put in a new set of bums. Newt's gang was in control and the Senate was basically a split decision.
What was the party of Bill to do? Simple. First, blame their reversal of fortune not on their un-American policies, but on the unreasonable anger of the people. That anger of course was caused by the unreasonable blockade of those rascally do-nothing Republicans.
Then the seduction begins. The Republicans were woefully unprepared for power. Newt Gingrich is a genius and pulled of a modern political miracle with the Contract With America. However, the party bosses did not have faith in Newt's ability to run the House. The Senate was even worse.
Newt could not be seduced so the left-wing willing accomplices who control the nation's media began a brutal campaign of character assassination. The birth of Fox News Channel was nearly two years away. Rush Limbaugh was just over mid-way into his first decade on the air. The big broadcast news programs were still king along with the NY Times and Washington Post.
Poor hapless Bob Dole was now the Senate Majority Leader. Senator Dole is a hero of the Greatest Generation. He is an honest and honorable man. He wanted nothing more than to be an honest broker to advance American Exceptionalism. Unfortunately, the opposition didn't give a damn about what is good for America. Tom Daschle and his cronies cared only about being out of power.
Bottom line is the Democrats launched their predictable mantra of "moderation and cooperation" and seduction.
As usual, the Republicans fell for it, ran up to the football and ended up on their collective butts.
Newt was hounded into retirement. Bob Dole retired. And the Republicans sowed the seeds of their destruction by acting like Democrats and spending our children into near serfdom to the state.
Here we go again. The Democrats have lost their bulletproof Senate majority. They may likely lose the House, or at least end up in a virtual deadlock, in November.
The campaign to seduce the Republicans has begun. Today, President Obama actually met with the Republicans for the first face-to-face since his election. The voices of 'moderation' within the Republican party are tuning up their siren's song. The Dem's lapdog press is advocating 'co-operation'. All this as a preemptive strike to blunt the momentum of a new Republican Revolution and to avoid another 1994.
The Big Question. Will the Republicans run up and try to kick the football again? Or will they launch a hard kick into the backside to the Democrats by sticking to conservative Ronald Reagan principals?
As the song goes "...I'll get on my knees and pray - we won't get fooled again." [Hat tip to The Who]
Until the next epiphany,
~Paul M. Laperruque
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