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SNL Election Ad Spoof: Employees Laid Off By Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital

susan — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:50:39 +0000

NBC’s Saturday Night Live spoofs an Obama presidential election ad showing stories from employees laid off from companies acquired by Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s former company.

U Didn’t Build That by MC ‘Bama

susan — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:56:09 +0000

Video humorist Hugh Atkin assembles a fun rap to the tune of MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This.”

ObamaCare: One Sentence Says Why It Won’t Work

susan — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:50:58 +0000

In just one very long, very funny sentence, Dr. Barbara Bellar, candidate for the Illinois State Senate, can summarize why ObamaCare will not work.

Boehner: Job Creators Want Less Regulation and Taxes

susan — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:42:09 +0000

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner commented on Obama’s economic ideas by saying that the American job creators are on strike and the only way to get the economy going and achieve sustained economic growth is to reduce government regulation, restructure the tax system and reduce the debt.

John Stossel: Big Government is Creating Federal Bullies

susan — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:24:35 +0000

John Stossel, columnist and Fox News contributor says that Federal government has grown significantly and the Feds are becoming bullies, mandating citizen behavior. He cites how the Labor Department is chasing unpaid interns and Congress is chasing chewing tobacco in baseball. He says it is time to stand up and say “Enough!”

The Hypocrisy of Our Government Programs

howard — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:17:00 +0000

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Howard Love
Publisher, The Right Post, entrepreneur and business strategist

There was a very interesting article in the WSJ recently that discussed what’s going on in Colorado Springs. Like virtually all local governments, they are severely strapped for cash. So they have taken a number of city projects and asked the community to support them directly, either with time or money. That seems both smart and logical. The interesting part is that the vast majority of the projects ultimately cannot find enough support or backers to continue them. And THAT begs the obvious and burning question: If nobody ultimately cares enough to support these projects, WHY WERE THEY STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE?Can you imagine the many thousands of local, state and federal programs that would be in the same situation? That when push comes to shove, nobody really cares enough about these projects to actually directly devote their own time and money. My guess is that 75% of all government programs would collapse, if central government support was cut and people were asked to support those exact programs directly. Which brings us ultimately to a very interesting conundrum, which is that people are often happy to spend OTHER peoples’ time and money on projects which they themselves would not ultimately back with their own direct resources. The word for this is hypocrisy.

John Stossel: Entitlements are Stealing From our Children

susan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:04:45 +0000

John Stossel, columnist and Fox News contributor says that Social Security and Medicare are ponzi schemes run by Congress. With these entitlements plus health care we are stealing from our children. Instead we should delay retirement age, reduce payments to wealthier people and only pay out what an individual paid in plus the two to three times growth of the investment.

Understanding the Tea Party

howard — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:37:28 +0000

Not sure why it is, but journalists (even conservative journalists), as well as Republicans have a very hard time understanding what the Tea Party movement is about. Today’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Thomas Frank misses the mark, yet again. He seems to conclude that it is “reactionary” and wanting to reverse the long course of history. No, that’s not it. Tea Party devotees are reactionary against the expanded role of government and its creeping (or runaway, depending on your perspective) intrusions on our everyday life and freedoms. The Tea Party is reactionary to an increasingly oppressive government, and that’s the direct parallel to the Tea Party of Colonial times when the populace of America could simply stand the oppression no more.

Frank’s editorial references an interesting Republican Powerpoint from the RNC that references the Tea Party as driven by “‘Fear’ and ‘Extreme negative feelings toward existing Administration.’ These donors are, in the language of the presentation, ‘Reactionary.’” As you can see even the RNC misses the point: Much of the Tea Party’s vitriol is directed against the Republicans themselves to the extent that they are complicit in promulgating and/or acquiescing to Big Government. The FreedomWorks website says it pretty clearly: “Lower Taxes, Less Government, More Freedom”.

Obamacare 2.0: Bad Ideas + Expensive Ideas Don’t Equal a Good Bill

susan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:50:50 +0000

GOP wants to bring down the cost of health care insurance, making it more available to more Americans without increasing the size of government. Obamacare 2.0, Obama’s $950 billion proposal is a rehash of what American has already said “No” to – government control of health care, higher taxes, cuts to Medicare and increases to the deficit.

Jose Pinera: Entitlement Reform is Critical for Social Security

susan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:38:18 +0000

Jose Pinera, former Labor and Social Security Minister of Chile and Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, privatized social security in Chile. He argues for entitlement reform in the U.S. to curb the debt liability of $100 trillion in net present value for the U.S. Social Security system.