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Monday, August 22, 2011

Queen of The Stage

Aug. 20 and 22, 2011

As a photo editor of my college newspaper, I can tell you that when a media outlet plans to show a visual of someone, they choose from dozens of photos of that person. These are generally taken from different angles and distances and can be complimentary or not, depending upon the editor's feelings or views at the moment. When I saw Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) on the August 15, 2011 cover of Newsweek, I wasn't surprised. This magazine and the mainstream media (MSM) wants to hurt conservatives, and the editors of Newsweek decided to hit on Bachmann this time.

On the front of Newsweek, Rep. Bachmann looks stunned, out-of-place, and a little crazy. The cover’s title is, The Queen of Rage. Bachmann is neither a queen, nor raging. Not rage, but Queen of the Stage, perhaps. She has some good ideas, has presented them with a toughness we haven't seen in a while, and it might help if we listened to her. The subtitle, oozing with liberal sarcasm, says, Michelle Bachmann on God, The Tea Party, and the Evils of Government. These are three topics liberals have trouble addressing these days. When faced with any one of them, they usually get angry and begin cursing (ie. Rep. Maxine Waters).

Carrying the banner of the MSM’s new mantra is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). He and the MSM say the popularity of the Tea Party is sagging. The polar opposite is true, of course, in the face of our out-of-control, leader-less, and thrashing economy. The Newsweek states, in lyrical rhyme, “…a new poll shows the Tea Party’s popularity flagging.”

Feeling compelled to purchase a copy of Newsweek with the Bachmann cover, I did so while on vacation in the small and beautiful town of Glenwood Springs, CO. As I fell in line behind a woman also buying a copy, I spoke up. “Don’t you think they might have found a better photo of Michelle Bachmann?” I asked. The lady replied, “No,” and with firm conviction told me she always sees Michelle Bachmann that way. “She’s so angry.” The man behind the counter added, “She says crazy things. Everything she says is religious.” Everything - she - says. Hmmm. What’s wrong with religion, anyway? Small-town America sure isn’t living up to its reputation of clinging to its guns and religion anymore, is it? Throw the old generalizations out, the liberals have taken over the backwoods, all the while clinging to the ACLU, their mainstream media, and their atheism!

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Millionaires and Billionaires

Aug. 16, 2011

Radio personality Mark Levin asked us to do the math. There are less than 500 billionaires in the U.S. at this time and there are about 3.1 million millionaires*. President Obama keeps talking about taxing these guys to fix the failing economy. If only we force them to do their fair share, our debt of $14 trillion would come right on down. Never mind that this argument is class warfare, let’s analyze it.

Forget about taxing the Richie Rich’s at 40% or 50% of their annual income. Let’s get crazy. If we took half of the billionaires’ total wealth away, which would be far greater than the amount we could actually tax them, the resulting amount would come to only about $250 billion, assuming each one is worth $1 billion. The millionaires, because there are so many more of them, have a far greater share. They own about $3.2 trillion all told, assuming each is worth $1 million.

If we took half of the millionaires’ assets, it would total $1.75 trillion. Adding the billionaires’ contribution, this adds up to about $2 trillion. This unrealistic total (we can’t tax anyone by taking half their total assets), doesn’t even come close to our current $14 trillion debt. Congress recently raised the debt ceiling, so the debt will now be allowed to rise to over $17 trillion. This is only a theoretical argument. If it really happened, many of our companies would collapse, as would the entire economy. I’m glad we checked, though.

When the president says that if only millionaires and billionaires would do their fair share the U.S. debt would go away, he’s blowing hot air up your skirt. We know, ‘cause we just did the math!

*The data in this post was retrieved mostly from Wikipedia. On Aug. 20, 2011, on Fox and Friends, it was revealed by Wall Street Journal economics reporter Kelly Evans that there were only 237,000 millionaires as of 2009, down from the previous year. If this is correct, and it's a true trend, then my data for revenue is less than 10% of what I said it would be. Millionaires would account for only about $230 billion, and not 3.2 trillion, and that makes my argument that much stronger. I apologize for my error.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

America's Downgrade

Aug. 9, 2011

The erosion of our country continued last week with the downgrade of America’s bond rating. Standard & Poors, an actual investment intelligence company, has changed their rating of U.S. credit as AA+ as opposed to AAA. The Obama administration, at the grand old age of 2 1/2, disagrees. S+P has been around a little longer. About 150 years more, so, they may be slightly more knowledgeable than the president’s men. Of course, you can read about it at:

S&P web site

Our president continues to lead us down the wrong path. He warned us that changes were coming – and, like Ed McMahon introduced Johnny Carson, they’re heeeeeere. A failed stimulus, higher gas prices, debt, and unemployment, a bad economy, and now a debilitating downgrade. It occurred because Mr. President and his Democrats wouldn’t compromise. They’re stubborn. This is the true party of “no.” They laid the evidence down before us when they refused to even discuss the Bush plan to fix Social Security in the middle of the last decade. Jason Mattera said just yesterday that if government spending (Obama’s stimulus) were “this nirvana,” we’d be seeing the results by now. He reminded us that after the Bush tax cuts, we were at 4.6% unemployment, the Dow [Jones] was around 14,000, and there was more revenue flowing into the treasury than ever.

America finds itself on par with countries like Belgium.

Remember that Mr. Obama told the Egyptians in Cairo that [our] colonialism denied rights to many Muslims and that [western] civilization has a debt to Islam. He stood up for a citizen against a law enforcement officer early in his presidency, before learning all the facts of the case. He once explained that American exceptionalism is the very same as Greek or British exceptionalism. Except that it’s not.

Recall his inaugural address: “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality... and lower its costs. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.” Oh, really, a new age of…America down the toilet? November, 2012 can’t come soon enough for me. Let’s plan to vote this guy and his destructive policies and administration out of office!

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What’s President Obama Talking About?

Aug. 03, 2011

President Obama’s been telling us that the rich folks need to pay their fair share of taxes. Someone needs to educate him. The upper 50% of wage earners already pay approximately 97% of the income taxes collected in this country. So, what’s he talking about? What is his angle?

The president said that Republicans only want to cut taxes and cut spending. He said, while offering no plan of his own, that conservatives did nothing to promote increasing government revenue. If the economic climate favors businesses, more people will be hired – which would then add to the taxpayer’s numbers, thereby increasing dollars coming into the treasury. He doesn’t understand this simple concept. I’ve noticed he’s now using the term corporations, instead of big business. But we know he’s talking about those pesky capitalists. Those who take the risks deserve the rewards, Mr. President.

Karl Marx, the father of modern Communism, referred to capitalists as vampires sucking workers’ blood. He felt the worker class was exploited by capitalists. Communists like to divide people into economic classes to alienate them from each other. Trust me, I know. They love to talk about the upper, middle, and lower classes. The Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada talks about class struggle. This document, written in 1944, states that common property (private property, seized by government) will remove “the greatest of the burdens resting today on the backs of the workers.” My own father, a self-admitted Communist, told me many times that capitalists make money off the backs of the workers.

Once again, President Obama spoke today about the debt ceiling debate. And, once again he divided us. The great divider said, “We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the very people who have borne the biggest brunt of this recession. We can’t make it tougher for young people to go to college or ask seniors to pay more for health care or ask scientists to give up on promising medical research because we couldn’t close a tax shelter for the most fortunate among us.” I understand you don’t have to be a Communist or a socialist to slam the rich. If he’s not either of those, though… what is he talking about?

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