Not enough taxes or too much spending?

The current stalemate over the budget issue demonstrates the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives.    Liberals want an all-powerful government who takes care of everyone... income redistribution, equal outcomes instead of equal opportunity, less military and more "social justice."  It is a philosophy that once entrenched is almost impossible to dislodge.   Never mind the historical failure of liberalism every time and everywhere it is tried.  Is the grand experiment of representative government doomed to fail?   We have perhaps one and only one small window of opportunity to reverse the insidious trends we now see in the United States.   For lovers of freedom and liberty the national elections of 2012 will determine the direction our nation will take FOREVER.   We stand at the intersection of the Yellow Brick Road.

It's all Bush's fault

The Washington Post recently babbled  about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this nonsense. So once more, a short civics lesson .

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.

The Democrats controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011 .

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely , passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets.. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for And then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th .

Another Bright Idea

Thomas Edison must be rolling over in his grave.

In 2005, Congress passed a law banning outdoor mercury vapor streetlights – two years before it banned indoor incandescent light bulbs in favor of mercury vapor compact florescent bulbs.

Here is a classic case of the government working at cross purposes. Washington is forcing residents across the country to install mercury lighting inside their homes while phasing out mercury lighting outside homes to protect the environment.

  
We're removing mercury from outside the home while adding it inside. 

What we should get rid of is liberalism that fosters such nonsense.   


 

Terror in Norway

Does anyone remember back in November, 2009, when a US Army Major Nidal Hasan went on a rampage and killed 13 fellow soldiers and wounded 30 others?   As he fired on unarmed soldiers he yelled the traditional Islamic, "Allahu Akbar!"   Major Hasan was an Islamic terrorist in every sense of the word, yet the mainstream media, Attorney General Holder, President Obama, and even the Pentagon went out of their way to insist that he was not a terrorist, just a misguided lone wolf.   It was forbidden even to mention that he was a Muslim.
Fast forward to July 22, 2012..........
Yesterday, a deranged Norwegian went on a rampage shooting 80 or so people at a youth camp.  The first thing I heard on the radio this morning was a description that he was a "fundamentalist Christian."
Anyone care to comment on this obvious double standard?

Not enough taxes or too much spending?

The current stalemate over the budget issue demonstrates the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives.    Liberals want an all-powerful government who takes care of everyone... income redistribution, equal outcomes instead of equal opportunity, less military and more "social justice."  It is a philosophy that once entrenched is almost impossible to dislodge.   Never mind the historical failure of liberalism every time and everywhere it is tried.  Is the grand experiment of representative government doomed to fail?   We have perhaps one and only one small window of opportunity to reverse the insidious trends we now see in the United States.   For lovers of freedom and liberty the national elections of 2012 will determine the direction our nation will take FOREVER.   We stand at the intersection of the Yellow Brick Road.