Our “D-Day” will be the 2014 mid-term elections. If after the elections, the Ferengi have increased their numbers in Washington, we are lost – but if the number of Ferengi has decreased, we have started Lincoln’s constitutional process of amending our existing despotic government:
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Why Violence and Terror are Part of America’s New Normal
A majority of us keep expecting our leaders and officials to initiate force against our fellow citizens on a daily basis, robbing from another to give to ourselves. And then we marvel at the fact that some choose to take the violence to the streets.
Who Really Cares About the Poor More?
Progressives talk a good game, but underneath the inflammatory rhetoric is a power-hungry machine that merely wishes to prey on the emotions of the people in order to consolidate more power.
Pre-K a Failed Head Start Redux?
Obama’s Pre-K proposals are just a reprise of the perennial feminist demand for government-paid daycare. The feminists believe it’s part of the war on women by the patriarchy for society to expect mothers to care for their children, and they should be relieved of this burden by the taxpayers.
Obama: Profiling for me, but not for thee
Put another way, “White Males Need Not Apply.”
Government Programs Cause More Harm Than Good
Cash for Clinkers turns out to have been bad for the environment and bad for consumers. Will we ever learn? Leftist housing policies caused the housing crisis, environmental policies cost jobs, drive up energy prices and in some cases actually harm the environment. Obamacare is driving up costs and taxes. Has anything the government done worked?
Sacred Cows and Bipartisan B.S. In Farm Bill
Taxpayers continue to bear the heavy burden of subsidizing campaign contributors, the rich and corporations under the cover of a nostalgic vision of farming. “Farmers” who receive about 80 percent of government subsidies are multimillionaires whose incomes put them in Obama’s definition of the rich.
Capital Crime – Biomassive Energy Subsidies in Farm Bill
The farm bill [] has little to do with farming and a lot to do with handouts. Energy subsidies? The farm bill’s full of ‘em, particularly in the Title IX energy section, and they all need to go.
Time to End Ludicrous Farm Subsidies
[S]ubsidy programs paid more than $1.3 billion to non-farmers in a six year period. .. As one example, billionaire Ted Turner has received more than $200,000 in subsidies. – Capitalism Magazine
Four Big Problems with Obama’s Green Energy Subsidy Push
These subsidies have and continue to enjoy bipartisan support precisely because they benefit both Republicans and Democrats come election time, when they can say they helped create jobs for their district and state. But targeted tax credits and other subsidies are wasteful and economically destructive for four fundamental reasons: