Because conservatism needs a makeover
This video might cause you to taste your dinner for a second time, if you know what I mean.
It’s Wild-Eyed McChoppyhands acting all “exhilarated” about her caucus meeting and “delighted” over Obama’s trip delay. And then there’s a whole bunch of fawning over Obama because of his “tremendous tremendous leadership.”
Utterly nauseating. And since I had to see it, I felt it only fair to subject our readers to it also.
According to this, Obama announced this week that there’s going to be a new poverty measurement system to replace the current measure. His new system ties in nicely with his ultimate goal of taking people’s money and redistributing it to other people. You know – spreading the wealth around.
Here’s how it’s going to work. First, if a family’s income falls below a certain income threshold, they’ll be considered poor. Second, those thresholds are going to “rise automatically in direct proportion to any rise in the living standards of the average American.”
That’s kind of a big deal. Instead of gauging how much a family can Actually Buy, the new measure will gauge how much they can buy COMPARED TO OTHERS.
Liberals love this idea, but even President Lyndon Johnson nixed it. And with good reason. If the country prospers, the definition of “poor” keeps prospering right along with it. So people who receive benefits meant for “the poor” could actually be quite comfortable. That’s handy for people like Obama and other Democrats who count on people counting on them. Under Obama’s new measurement system, the definition of “poor” can only be reduced if the incomes of the poor rise faster than everyone else’s.
As the author of the article points out, poverty rates in countries like Bangladesh and Albania will have lower poverty rates than we do. Never mind that if you’re poor in Albania, you’re probably living outside in a box, whereas in the US, you’re inside with A/C.
Actually, let’s take a look at what poverty really means in the US. According to the article, most Americans who are officially classified as “poor” live pretty well, actually. The government’s data shows that the average “poor” person, according to the old measurement, “has two color televisions, cable or satellite service, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He also has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry, and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family’s essential needs.” Doesn’t your heart just BLEED?
So now, Obama’s new measuring scale is going to INCREASE, artificially, the number of Americans classified as poor. And so all of those poor, wretched people with their two tv’s and their air conditioning could potentially qualify for MORE of everyone else’s money to supplement their HORRIBLE LIVING CONDITIONS.
It’s the Harrison Bergeronification of America, you guys. It’s all about making everyone equal. Obama and other liberals will take money out of your check in the name of helping those less fortunate, when really, those less fortunate are actually pretty damn fortunate. But this is the Democratic agenda – keep people dependent on government and dis-incentivized to take care of themselves, and BLAMMO – you’ve got yourself a whole bunch of people who will keep voting Democrat so that the freebies don’t stop.
HATE.
Unions. It doesn’t matter how much good any particular union might do at this point. They have outlived their usefulness, and are now becoming parasitic. Not to mention devious, underhanded, and cowardly.
HATE.
I referenced this total scandal before, some time ago. And it appears that Planned Parenthood, like ACORN, needs to seriously consider hiring people who aren’t total criminals.
Unbelievable. And yet, totally believable.
GAWD.
Alan Grayson. Seriously – how punch-worthy is that jowly smug face of his? It’s ASKING for a punch.
He’s up to his usual tricks, according to this. He’s come up with a big bunch of anti-business bills, listed below:
1. The Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act (H.R. 4431): Implements a 500% excise tax on corporate contributions to political committees, and on corporate expenditures on political advocacy campaigns.
2. The Public Company Responsibility Act (H.R. 4435): Prevents companies making political contributions and expenditures from trading their stock on national exchanges.
3.The End Political Kickbacks Act (H.R. 4434): Prevents for-profit corporations that receive money from the government from making political contributions, and limits the amount that employees of those companies can contribute.
4. The Corporate Propaganda Sunshine Act (H.R. 4432): Requires publicly-traded companies to disclose in SEC filings money used for the purpose of influencing public opinion, rather than to promoting their products and services.
5. The Ending Corporate Collusion Act (H.R. 4433): Applies antitrust law to industry PACs.
6. The End the Hijacking of Shareholder Funds Act (H.R. 4487): This bill requires the approval of a majority of a public company’s shareholders for any expenditure by that company to influence public opinion on matters not related to the company’s products or services.
Obviously, Grayson’s got a bit of an issue with corporations having the right to have an opinion. But as the source link notes, labor unions appear to be exempt from these proposed rules. They can continue to get dues from their unsuspecting members, and contribute to whatever campaign strikes their fancy. In the pea-size brain that belongs to Alan Grayson, all companies are created equal. It’s just that some (*cough* SEIU *cough*) are more equal than others.
HATE.
Musicals. Being a classically-trained pianist from the age of four, you’d think I’d dig these things. But no. I kind of loathe them. On the other hand, Mock adores them. I believe our difference of opinion about musicals boils down to this simple logic: She was in show choir, whereas I was a cheerleader. Jazz hands and spirit fingers – while a recipe for a fabulous friendship in post-secondary-school-years – don’t necessarily mix. And don’t even get me started on that show Glee…
So, when Mock sent this story to me today with a bit of a snicker, she knew I’d be on the mocking of it like a bum on a ham sandwich.
There’s a new Obama musical that’s opening in Germany. Yep. It’s centered around the “Yes We Can” campaign, and “30 singers, actors and dancers are to perform in the musical “Hope — the Obama Musical Story” when it opens at the Jahrhunderthalle concert hall in Frankfurt in a bilingual mix of English and German“.
“The story starts 20 years ago, when Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, and leads all the way to the 2008 campaign.”
And just so everyone is clear, I’d rather stab myself in the eyes with forks than to see this. I’m not counting Mock out entirely, though. She may be able to get past the whole hopey-changey crap when it looks this N’Sync’y and jazz handy…
And without further ado, I’m ending with a snippet of the show – for all you musical lovers out there. You’re welcome. For all of you like me? I apologize if you’re viewing this over your evening meal.
Don’t get me wrong, they suck for big business too. But for small business, they’re company-killers.
And you don’t have to take it from me – you can take it from this article from the freaking HUFFINGTON POST.
In it, the author tells a personal story about the unionization of her family’s business. She writes, “My mother’s family owned a small furniture manufacturing company in a rural southern-Missouri town. When union organizers appeared on the scene, the employees were told if they chose to vote for the union, the business would close down, and they’d all be out of jobs. Unfortunately, no one believed the owners would really lock the doors so they voted in favor of the Union. The next day when the employees arrived to work, the doors were locked … never to re-open again.”
And now as a small business owner herself, she knows if she were faced with unionization of her own company, she’d make the same choice to simply shut the doors. She explains that after union leaders spent $450 million on getting Obama elected, they are pretty much expecting payback in the form of the Employee Free Choice Act. And once EFCA is in place, any small business faced with unionizing will automatically see higher operations costs, a skyrocketing of their legal fees, total loss of freedom over the selection and discipline of their own employees, and higher costs for salaries/benefits.
If you’re wondering if that isn’t sort of counter-productive, when Obama keeps saying how important jobs are and holding “job summits,” then you’re right. He’s basically doing everything in the world one can possibly do to ensure that we don’t get more jobs, and that small businesses in private industry are destroyed.
He’s a crafty one, our president.
So, do you guys remember that whole, “95% of you will get a tax break under my administration” crap that Bo spewed throughout his campaign?
Yeah. People believed that one, too. Hilarious, isn’t it?
So far, I haven’t seen much of a break. I keep looking for it, but I can’t seem to find it. Is someone hiding my tax break and just not telling me? Because I’d really like to have it back if you’re hoarding it.
According to Americans for Tax Relief, 2010 is shaping up to be a banner year for taxes.
Here’s a nice little summary for you, compliments of ATR:
Seventy-three new tax increases went into effect on January 1, 2010. This was the result of Congress letting temporary tax relief expire. They still have time to put the tax relief back in place before the end of the year, but they are gone for now. A complete list of them is maintained by the Joint Tax Committee. Here are some of the more recognizable tax relief which expired:
* The first-time homebuyer credit ($10.8 billion)
* The research and experimentation tax credit ($6.97 billion)
* The AMT “patch” to prevent more families from paying the AMT ($63 billion)
* The additional standard deduction for state and local real estate taxes ($1.46 billion)
* The itemized deduction for state and local general sales taxes ($1.85 billion)
* 15-year depreciable life for leasehold improvements and restaurants ($5.4 billion)
* 50 percent partial expensing for business asset purchases ($5.074 billion)
* Increase in small business expensing to $250,000 ($41 million)
* Above-the-line deduction for college tuition and fees ($1.53 billion)
* Above-the-line deduction for teacher classroom expenses ($228 million)
* Tax-free distributions from IRAs to make charitable contributions ($591 million)
* DC first-time homebuyers credit ($17 million)
All told, these expiring tax provisions total between $100-$150 billion of new tax hikes.
And we haven’t even seen the hikes we’re going to see for Obamacare, Cap and Tax, and everything else this administration wants to tax us for.
Happy New Year, everyone!! Get ready to bend over and take your hope and change!
According to this, federal government employees are having a kickass recession. The number of them making six figures plus is now at nearly TWENTY PERCENT. And that’s BEFORE bonuses and overtime are factored in. The average pay for a federal worker is now $71,206, compared to just $40,331 in the private sector. You know, the sector that is PAYING FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.
How sick does this make you? Because I’m getting the bitter spits over this in a big way.
18 months ago, when the recession first started, the Transportation had one employee, ONE, earning above 170k. Now, nearly 1700 employees make that much or more.
Chew on that when the next unemployment figures get released.
GAWD.
WTF is happening to our country?
This is just absolutely the most moronic, absurd, and pointless thing a school could ever do. Banning candy canes? SERIOUSLY?
Remember growing up how we were able to celebrate Halloween and Christmas and no one got offended over stuff? Wasn’t that great? And yet, parents and schools are constantly trying to deny today’s kids of creating the same kind of memories. RIDICULOUS.
I feel kinda bad, posting something this infuriating right after Daisy wrote such a nice Thanksgiving post, but it’s the first thing I came across in my email, and it’s worth sharing.
You’ll just have to forgive me if I don’t wish you all a Happy Eid al-Adha after seeing this video. Or ever, actually.
Dear SEIU:
Please recommend to Congress that you all rename that stupid Employee Free Choice Act to something more appropriate. Like, I don’t know – the Employee Threaten-Your-Livelihood Act. Or maybe the Bully and Coercion Act.
Just a thought.
Sincerely,
Mock
P.S. You suck.
I’m not a violent person. But I’m telling you right now, if I had lost a loved one in the 9/11 attacks, I would probably be looking for a hit man to take out this worthless, despicable snake of a human.
How does he sleep? Seriously? HOW?
When you’re Bo and company and you can’t produce jobs from your 700 bazillion dollar spendiddlydimulus, you’ve got to blame somebody. So, you might as well blame employers.
Watch and learn how to never take responsibility for yourself, your actions, or for the actions of those that you’ve put into power, everyone.
And remember, it’s ALL the employers’ fault. I mean, they’re just so “reluctant to hire” and “companies have not yet been willing to take the steps necessary to hire again”….
Wow. Those crazy, capitalist corporate bastards.
But you know what WILL make them start hiring again? A dandy little job summit. Yeah. We should TALK about hiring more. We should all sit in a circle, sing kum-ba-yah and TALK about that 10.2% unemployment rate and how to create more jobs. Thaaaaat’s going to do the trick.
Brilliant.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) has all sorts of sage words for everyone, and particularly women, who she apparently now believes she speaks for as a whole.
“The GOP repulses women,” she says. Huh. That’s fascinating. She miiiiight want to take a look at Indiana, who has 4 women candidates running for state offices in the next election cycle. Or, she might want to have a chat with Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin or even lowly people like me and Daisy to see what we think about her comment.
Now – does the GOP have a ways to go in rebranding itself and getting a full makeover? Sure, but we’re well on our way, and I’d suggest that the Democratic party has an image issue of their own to contend with *cough* SEIU thugs and ACORN *cough*.
And it’s positively hilarious to me (and by hilarious I of course mean incredibly sad and pathetic) that the very abortion amendment which made the House bill PASS is now going to be stripped away from the Senate version. I hope all those clowns (particularly the three Indiana congressmen who voted for it) realize how duped they just got.
GAWD.
And by interesting, I obviously mean crappy, of course.
We’ve already talked about the fact how Obama didn’t address the Fort Hood tragedy like a real President should’ve, and many others have pondered about this as well. But, after handling the situation like a complete rookie with zero class, I read another article today that contained some lovely little comments from our clueless fearless leader.
When giving a “pep talk” to fellow Democrats on Saturday’s healthcare nightmare, he called the people who don’t support it “teabag, anti-government people, and extremists.”
Such harsh talk. Huh.
I wonder why such words can’t be spoken about Mr. Hasan, our friendly neighborhood poster boy for tolerance and acceptance and NON-extremism.
Nah. He’s not an extremist. Apparently, only the wacked-out, middle-class, hard-working, taxpaying, American citizens who pay our President’s freakin’ salary are worthy of that title. Go figure.
Once again – nice work, Bo.
BEHOLD: Yousef Al-Khattab (born Joseph Cohen). This assclown is hailing Nidal Hasan as a hero for slaying the soldiers at Fort Hood.
Yousef lives in New York and works as a bicyle cabbie. He got a nice laugh out of the Daniel Pearl beheading and spends his spare time on the internet calling for the murder of Jews. He also runs RevolutionMuslim.com, and says that the soldiers killed at Fort Hood deserved their fates.
Yousef was born a Jew, but converted to Islam in 2004. And, he enjoys reminding everyone that his hateful speech is protected by the First Amendment. He is also a perfect example of why I am a fan of racial profiling. I’d like to think that our intelligence agencies have their eyes and ears all over this jerk, but wouldn’t be surprised if the ACLU and liberal Democrats decide it’s too invasive to monitor him too closely.
This is the kind of person who isn’t content to just SPEAK hatred. He won’t rest, because his radical beliefs prevent him from doing so, until he ACTS on his hatred.
But, you know, it’s far more important to develop hate crime legislation for gay people and attach it to defense spending bills than it is to deal with THIS kind of hate. Priorities, people. Priorities.
Plus, we’ve always got Obama’s preferred line of defense for terror:
BEHOLD: Rep Joe Cao (R-LA), who was the lone Republican vote for passage of the most damaging bill in the history of American bills. Without his vote, the bill would have still passed by one measly vote.
Now, here’s what’s ridiculous. I GUARANTEE you that the House will use his one vote as a means to say that the passage of this bill was bipartisan. They’ll ignore the fact that what was really bipartisan was OPPOSITION to the bill. More Democrats voted against this bill than Republicans voted for it. And the majority of the COUNTRY is opposed to this bill, but the fact of the matter is, Nancy Pelosi wants to “make history” so what’s good for the country is of absolutely no importance right now.
It’s a sad, sad day.
I don’t know if you guys have been watching the C-Span coverage of the House floor debate today, but it’s been pretty depressing. There are so many Democratic congresspeople who are waaaaay more concerned with a chance to “make history” than they are with the Actual Content of the bill they’re voting on, that it just makes me want to punch them all in the face.
Yep – they’re going to make history, all right. If this crap passes, and you guys – it’s practically a certainty that it will – then this day will forever be known as the day that our government did our country one of the biggest disservices of all time. It’s so totally depressing.
Meantime, we’ve got a President who’s lecturing us all about “not rushing to judgment” or “jumping to conclusions” about the motive of the psychopath who shot at innocent people at Fort Hood, despite the fact that this same president quickly said Sgt Crowley acted stupidly in that whole Professor Gates incident. I have to wonder when, assuming Hasan comes out of his coma, he’ll be invited over for beer at the White House to discuss religious equality. GAWD.
Anyway, I’m kinda bitter today. 
Can ya tell? The latest reports indicate that the final healthcare vote will take place at 11pm tonight. So when we all wake up tomorrow, our country will likely be a little less recognizable than it is today.
Thanks a lot, Democrats. You suck.
…the SEIU is pure evil, and its leader, Andy Stern, who is tops on the White House guest list, is the devil. You guys really ought to read Dave Bego’s book (which you can get at a discount – see the top right hand corner of our site). You really need to understand how dangerous the Employee Free Choice Act is, because it will affect businesses dramatically.
I have to admit, I’m kinda freaked out about the fact that this isn’t in the news more. Stern and Obama are like BFF, you guys. It’s creepy, because clearly Stern is kiiiiiind of a communist.
