NWO Conservative Coalition announces events

Please mark your calendars for our upcoming events in April!

• Monday April 8, 2013  7:00 pm Candidate night – Perrysburg Municipal Court Judge - May Primary Holiday Inn Express, 10621 Fremont Pike – co-sponsored with Northern Wood County Republican Club
• Saturday April 13, 2013 10AM  Barb Sears Town Hall, Sylvania Library, 6749 Monroe, Sylvania
• Find out what's going on in Columbus and join us to make your voice heard on Medicaid Expansion in Ohio
• Saturday April 20, 2013  2-4pm  Tax Day Rally, Hood Park Perrysburg
• Tuesday April 23, 2013 7:00pm “FrackNation” Movie Showing, Maumee Theatre, Tickets:  $5 donation
• Tuesday April 30, 2013  6-9pm  Candidate Workshop - Lucas and Wood County, Maumee Senior Center, 2430 Detroit, Maumee

Have you ever thought about running for elected office?  Come and find out what you need to know to make a decision.

And from the Toledo Tea Party:

CALL YOUR REP 
You have been placing a great deal of pressure on Legislatures to "Just Say No".  We need to do this one more time.
Place three phone calls.
" Pass a continuing Resolution of Last years budget.  This will allow us time to figure out Ohio's budget without taking any Federal Medicaid Expansion money
AND - Also mention that you want HB-91 to proceed thru Committee
1) Rep Bill Batchelder (614-466-814) (House Majority leader)
2) Rep Barb Sears (614-466-1731) (Committee Leader)

3) Rep Rep Lynn Wachtmann (614-466-3760) Schedules HB091 thru Committee)  

Personal message to Gov Kasich and Ohio GOP

Gov Kasich.  I’m a strong, very active, Conservative leader in NW Ohio . When you ran for Governor, you ran as a conservative, you embraced the idea of smaller, limited government, and conservative values. You were moving Ohio in that direction. What the heck happened?
Since you’ve been in office, you’ve taken numerous positions that have required myself and other Conservative leaders to take a second look. As you’ve observed in recent petition addressed to you,  we don’t like the direction you are going. 

Leaders meet in Columbus, not happy with Ohio GOP

Conservative group leaders from across the state meet today in Columbus to  discuss the  latest topics,, kind of like a Conservative / Tea Party Caucus.   This movement is growing, every quarterly meeting I see new faces and new groups represented. They all have the same story, they are fed up with how things are running and come to the Ohio Liberty Coalition meeting to check us ou

What watching The Bible series did for me

  It's easy to get discouraged in this political climate where so many strange things happen so quickly and so often; most discouraging is the attitude of young people, whose age group is the "only one to have higher unemployment" rates this year than "a year ago."
  I heard of an argument on Facebook the other day by a group of twenty somethings who were complaining about the "racism" of The Bible series, programs that I enjoyed immensely. 
  The complaint was that the actors were not Black, regardless what a "typical" Middle Eastern person "looks" like. Apparently all Middle Eastern people are supposed to be dark, swarthy and look, um, not White in any manner. 
  At least that's what the people on the thread said. 
  Later when it was pointed out that several of the characters such as Samson and Simon of Cyrene were Black, the argument quickly shifted to a different problem. Did you know the word Caucasian is offensive because "White people stole it"?
  Oddly the thread came to an abrupt halt when one poster asked if anyone had actually seen the shows. Now that's deductive reasoning. Switch arguments when you lose and then shut up when you realize you look like a fool because you don't know what you're talking about.
  These angry, offended, chronically aggrieved people took their cue from biblical scholars like Peter Enns, whose posts over at patheos indicate that he is "rethinking biblical christianity." Oh, well, neither biblical or Christianity merits a capital letter, but Enns is deep in thought, which we are supposed to note by his many snarky wisdoms about the rest of us bumpkins who still believe in God.
  Anyway Enns focused on The Bible series, magnanimously explaining that it wasn't as big a "train wreck" as he thought it'd be because everyone knows that anything Christian is hokey and not worth watching, a fact that is often but not this time true.
  Enns had several issues with the series, his primary one of which is this:

But it was clear, he notes, that series creators Mark Burnett and Roma Downey had an agenda – and that every episode they told had one goal: To get to the climax of Jesus’s life and death.

 “They [the producers] were focusing on the final stage of the Bible story, which is Christ’s appearance,” he said. “It’s all a buildup to that. They take a celebrity approach to The Bible, and highlight the figures people know and present them in ways that make it seem that when you get to Jesus, you’ll feel that this was how it was meant to be all along.”

  Enns did not explain why film makers would want to spend four years making a 10 hour series focusing on biblical figures no one knows. 
  While certainly a capitalistic endeavor, one can hardly argue that Burnett and Downey were gouging people by selling the dvds for under $40; in any interview with the couple, their faith is apparent.
  What they hoped to accomplish was to bring a few well known Bible characters to life in a realistic way to an audience which, these days, is largely unschooled in The Bible; the event of the series made me think of even Christ in ways I hadn't before, though I have been a reader of The Bible my entire life.The stories did not center around celebrities, other than the celebrity of Jesus Christ, though Enns snootily complains of a "celebrity approach."
  Enns's comment that the series is all a "buildup to [Christ's birth]" smells suspiciously rank, considering that the divine birth is at the crux of Christianity. 
  The books of The Bible are a buildup to the birth of Christ. 
  Surely the biblical scholar and Messiah College graduate Enns knows that Old Testament types are metaphors of the Christ Himself, Old Testament verifications of New Testament realities, such as Jonah, who is written as history in The Bible. Three days and nights in a great fish were an anticipation of Christ's three days and nights in the tomb. 
  While atheists and the irreligious claim they've been put off by the harshness of Deuteronomy and Leviticus and will never, ever have any use for the Bible itself because of all the laws (basically unkeepable) that seem to make little sense to modern minds and are so restrictive that one feels smothered and panicky just reading them, there seems to be little understanding on the facts regarding Old Testament law and life: 

• 1) many Old Testament laws reflected societal thinking at the time. New Testament sriptural admonitions such as rendering unto Caesar that which is his include living within the societal structure. 
• 2) Life in the Middle East in those days was extraordinarily violent (so much so that even watching The Bible series was difficult at times and certainly not for children, what with the eye gouging and beheading that went on). One only has to observe certain contemporary behaviors such as honor killings to realize not much has changed for some cultures, unlike Jesus, who condemned the sin of the male accusers.
• 3) Many of the laws had a practical purpose, such as not purposely offending others or not getting sick from eating bloody diseased meat. This was explained in the New Testament. A year of living biblically might explain some of the laws.
• 4) Many of the laws were for Israel only, representing her bond to God and the discipline of remaining faithful.
• 5) Finally, the birth of Christ introduced the idea of salvation through grace from all the rules, regulations and laws. Not that we may sin that grace may abound, but that God would love all us nasty violent little engines of hate so much that He would put His dearest Son into the hands of creatures who like to torture even their neighbors and certainly their enemies. Thus the death, resurrection and love of Christ in the New Testament balance the rigidity of the Old.

  Say, let me ask you this question, Mr. Enns and you Facebook posters who hate on Christianity. Would you be willing to voluntarily offer up the being you love most in the world to be tortured and murdered? 
  And this was the son of God, His death reflecting the will of God and prophecy, which makes the death of the Christ that much more, shall we say, sacrificial and significant?
 Giving up Christ to be tortured and die was not like giving up flying on Air Force One to Hawaii or such. 
  But say you don't believe the Bible or even in God.
  Fine.
  Then why is it so necessary, so essential to frequently repeat that The Bible is all a fake? A fraud. There was no historical Christ who died or at least, if some guy named Jesus did die, then He did not rise from the dead.
  Say you don't believe any biblical tradition.
  Then why and how does it make sense to spend so much time and expend so much energy disputing the faith of others?
  Doesn't that seem like a waste of a life, unless of course you're going to make a name for yourself and make money off that dissent?
  And wouldn't this attitude--that there's barely enough time to disparage Christianity in one short life--indicate that there is something diseased and yet eternal about the hater, in addition to the spiritual awareness that Christianity and therefore Jehovah are bigger than oneself?
  When I was younger, I remember wondering why such a sinner like Rahab, the prostitute who helped Joshua flee discovery from the city of Jericho, was a direct progenitor of the line of Christ.
  Many observers wondered why God used such a flawed vessel as Mel Gibson to make such an extraordinary film as The Passion of the Christ which was widely mocked, ridiculed and dismissed before it was even released.
  Yet it all makes sense, this use of the most terribly flawed of humans to introduce the divine to the world. 
  Who would have been good enough?
  We are all terribly flawed, our goodness as filthy rags in the eyes of a Creator whose throne we are not qualified to approach. 
  So, yes, The Bible series and The Bible itself do sort of reach a dramatic climax with the arrival of Christ, whose sacrifices are extreme by any human measure, even moreso by a divine measure.
  If not for that, then those vicious vitriolic souls who take an opportunity to tweet H8 at the Rick Warren family as they grieve the lost son would be right: there is no hope and no chance of meeting again in another place.
  We can do whatever we want in this plane of existence without concern for the consequences of our actions, a direct contradiction of the principles of Western Civilization and Christianity which are linearly structured rather than circularly.
  All this fist shaking at God does not change the truth.
  I saw a man sitting on a bench in the warm California sun outside church today, dressed all in black, apparently waiting for the food distribution after the service. 
  His face was pinched with early lines and signs of abuses from the choices he has made. 
  He drew attention to himself as I passed but when I asked how he was, he shrugged and said, "Dunno. Ain't good." He appeared to me to be self-pitying, having practiced the look and the answer many times. He refused to go into the service, shrugging his shoulders when I asked, determined to resist help.
  He was a beggar. 
  Our worlds are very different. I have earned a Master's Degree in English, live in a nice home and have a comfortable income.
  But you see, I too am a beggar. He could find real food in spirituality but chooses not to.
  We can grow discouraged that the world around us seems so lost, so filled with hate.
  The silhouettes of such hate have never been so clearly drawn against a bright sunny background. 
  It is in these circumstances that we can more clearly see God through the murk of countless foods, gadgets, distractions.
  I personally have never been so happy. Perhaps this is because I have turned off so many of the conservative political commentators I regularly follow who seem to think it's all over. There is no hope. All is lost. 
  Instead I listen to the podcasts of Chuck Swindoll, Ravi Zacharias and The Rock church of the Inland Empire, who remind that this world is not governed by the foul politicians in whom we put so much responsibility, though there may be other worldly twins of political leaders.
  Or perhaps this is because the answers we seek--those of us who are spiritually hungry-- are not found around us but in us, if we are persistent enough to look.
  Certainly the accelerating pressure of pagan demands and the shrill voices of the Left, because they need to control the conversation as selfishly and as carnally as they can, cause Christians to cringe and worry. Because there seems to be no clear voice on our side (certainly not the elite Republicans), we feel adrift, lonely and separated from the world.
  Yet I do not doubt that God is moving in this great land. I do not question that the prayers of millions will be answered, though in God's time and perhaps not in the way we choose. 
  I do know that signs and wonders will abound; some will not be from above, just as Moses experienced with Pharaoh.
  But the differences between believers and unbelievers should be sharp and clear; all this means is that the war between spiritual entities is very real and very intentional and very biblical.
  This should inspire, and not discourage, us to see with eyes of faith rather than physical eyes.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. I Corinthians 9: 24.

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Why, Leftists wonder, are people leaving the work force? Well, duh.

  Gee, for some reason, people have left the work force in this country. Liberals can't figure out why. The Washington Post has an article today, puzzling about the "mystery" of the declining work force.

  Extended unemployment, easy welfare payments that can be used anywhere including Colorado strip clubs, and huge numbers swelling the "disability" rolls are only suggestions from "conservative" think tanks like Heritage. 

  You'll note in the following excerpts that liberal think tanks think the solution to this problem is "improving job opportunities," which is part of the latest liberal meme to force pizza workers and burger flippers to pay its entry level workers more. Note also that "we" have to "get them involved."

  Thus the dramatic strikes in NYC with the usual union-paid sad faced workers posing for the cameras with their unionist "I am a man" signs. Big eyes. Sad face. Look, my pockets are empty. Could we please have some plaintive music to go along with the Norman Rockwell?

  Here are some nuggets from the WaPo article entitled "Vanishing work force weighs on growth."

“Prime-aged people are working less, and we don’t know why,” said Betsey Stevenson, a labor economist and associate professor at the University of Michigan. “I get concerned because there are a lot of people who have useful and productive skills that could really contribute to the economy, and we’re just failing to find ways to get them involved.” 

The easiest explanation for vanishing prime-aged workers is the weak job market: The economy just isn’t creating enough new jobs to keep job-seekers engaged, so many of them are getting frustrated and abandoning their search for work. 

In order to pull people back into the workforce, said Heidi Shierholz, a labor market economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, “it’s going to take seriously improving job opportunities, and that hasn’t happened yet.” 

Some researchers are making headway in explaining where people go when they leave the workforce. The conservative Heritage Foundation did a study last year that found that most of the people who left between 2007 and 2011 ended up in one of two places: They went to school, or they went on disability. The researchers expect the students to eventually return, but not the workers on disability, said James Sherk, Heritage’s senior policy analyst in labor economics.

  Now going to school also means there will be more student loans for majors like social justice, which means more agitation for "equality" which means taking from the productive and giving to the non-productive. 
  Which again gets us back to the same problem, doesn't it?
  The student debt problem is about to explode, surpassing the mortgage loan crisis in size and depth.
  And the enormous surge to flood the disability rolls is truly disabling this country. Almost nine million people are on disability in this country where workers actually drawing a paycheck for doing something has dropped to the lowest rate in years. 
  That rate is 13 workers paying for every person on disability, not to mention the other "social justice" payments folks receive. CNS:

This is the 192^nd straight month that the number of American workers collecting federal disability payments has increased. The last time the number of Americans collecting disability decreased was in January 1997. That month the number of workers taking disability dropped by 249 people—from 4,385,623 in December 1996 to 4,385,374 in January 1997. 

As the overall number of Americans collecting disability has increased, the ratio of full-time workers to disability beneficiaries has decreased.

  In England where disability and welfare payments have been free and easy for years, they actually decided to make the "disabled" go to the doctor to prove their disability and guess what. Almost a million people--3 out of 4 on disability--were knocked off.
  So Jonah Goldberg asks, "Is Disability the New Welfare?" 
  And let's be honest about this. It's not a matter of "compassion" as so many Leftists claim to keep people on welfare/government subsidies.
  An excellent case of the dire results of the culture of welfare is playing out in England where the horrendous Mick Philpott, in an attempt to garner more welfare payments and sympathy, set his house on fire, burning alive 6 of the 17 children living in the house. (Details can be found here.) Over 50 years, Philpott had gamed the system, never having held a job and yet acquiring the US equivalent of over $150,000 a year in government subsidies.
  Former welfare recipient Star Parker has an excellent testimony concerning the dangers of government dependency. You can read about her here.

Sequester Air Force One, not the White House

Your children belong to the community, not your family

Wow. Just wow.

Dem: you don't need a weapon cuz you'll be dead anyway

  Yeah, this is absolutely the most arrogant, 1%er, disassociated comments you'll ever see in your life. Well, so far anyway. And that's saying a lot, considering who's in charge in many areas of this country.
  This elected WOMAN tells an elderly gentleman concerned about Colorado's snatching of his guns and magazines that he really needn't worry about being assaulted since he'll probably be dead by the time the police get there anyway.
  When you watch the video be sure to note the contempt on her face and in her voice as she plays to a laughing audience. It's pretty darned sickening.
  After she tells the gentleman that he can just call the Denver PD and he'll probably be dead anyway, she makes this utterly inane comment, indicating she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about regarding weapons or ammo:

"What's the efficacy of banning these magazine clips? I will tell you, these are ammunition, they're bullets, so the people who have those now, they're going to shoot them" says Rep DeGette. According to her, "the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will be shot and there won't be any more available."

  We might note that the Denver Police Department is concerned about their own response time.  
  If you're assaulted violently in Denver, you can count on at least a 17 minute response time, which they'd like to get down to 5-7 minutes. 
  So, yeah, DIANE girl, an intruder with a weapon would probably kill you before the cops got there.
  Which (Die quickly!) is pretty much the response from Democrats to any problems Americans have these days, including cancer patients who are suffering from "sequester" cutbacks, no matter that the White House continues to party on and that the "sequester" cutbacks are a mere 2% cut in the INCREASE of government spending this year and that the government will still spend MORE this year than last year. 
  Oh, and, hey, Obama's taking a 5% government salary cut to be in solidarity with you little people out there, an act which even The Atlantic sees as "stupid" and phony.

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Leftists embrace unicorns, run wild in LaLaLand

  It's possible to live in a Leftist bubble, as long as you're not affected by the world falling down around you. 
  Thus we have celebrities who excoriate the public for flying or driving while they themselves are frequent flyers and drivers of fabulously expensive automobiles, some of which, like the Volt, are subsidized by lower and middle class taxpayers.
  Elitists like Thomas Friedman can wag his finger at the rest of us to "own less" while he lives here:

 Al Gore has become (almost) the world's first carbon billionaire by hawking his phony climate change movie and companies. Gore himself lives high, telling people to turn the lights out on Earth Day but keeping scores of lights on in his own home to the tune of $30,000 a year in utility bills.
  Celebrities like Cher, between surgeries and martinis while sitting under her cabana next to her Olympic size pool, can scream Tweet vile invectives at conservatives for being "h8trs." Quiet. Nobody tell her she is what she h8ts.
  And "economists" like the equally celebrated Paul Krugman can purse lips and claim that everything wrong with this economy is conservatives' fault, that the deeply in debt government doesn't spend enough or print enough money and declare that California--the most indebted underfunded radical state in the US--is on the upswing.
  Here you can find unicorns, elves and fairies.
  VD Hanson, a California resident and articulate professor of history, takes apart Krugman's untruths. Here's a highlight from NRO:

Krugman has completely mischaracterized conservative concerns. What worries us in our beloved California is that a state with singular natural gifts (the best agricultural climate and soils in the world, vast ports facing the rich Pacific Rim, vibrant tourism, huge reserves of gas, oil, and timber), and a wonderful inheritance from our ancestors (the UC system, Caltech, Stanford, USC, the origins of the American idea of freeway transportation, brilliantly engineered hydroelectric and irrigation systems, and a mostly harmonious, skilled, multiethnic populace), has been so mismanaged, by both recent Republican and Democratic governors, as to result in chronic budget crises, terrible public schools, and a third of the nation’s welfare recipients, with nearly a fourth of the state’s residents ranked below the poverty level — the highest rate in the nation. Apparently those latter statistics are symptoms of what Krugman characterizes as the California “comeback” that can offer lessons to the nation. 

Our problems are even not public employees per se (indeed, we do not have an inordinately high percentage of them for our population), but the exorbitant salary, medical, and pension costs of an aging, high-end caste of them — mostly the legacy of the disastrous (Democratic) Gray Davis administration. Immigration from Mexico and Central America in the past was manageable, since it was mostly legal, newcomers met a host eager to assimilate and integrate them, and the limited pools of yearly arrivals facilitated such confident melting-pot approaches. But in the last 30 years, a perfect storm of huge increases in illegal immigration, the politicized abandonment of the assimilationist melting-pot model in favor of the multicultural salad-bowl approach, the transfers of billions of dollars out of the state in annual remittances to Latin America, and the dismal economy resulted in soaring costs in welfare, Medi-Cal, the penal system, and law enforcement. Ironically, it is the sputtering California economy, not federal- or state-government enforcement of the law, that has led to a fairly recent slowdown in illegal immigration.

  Hanson mentions the Monterey Shale; working it would yield 500,000 jobs immediately and 2 million by 2020, yet the state does nothing to encourage business or mining natural resources, even though doing so in an environmentally conscious way is complete achievable. 
  But then, actually encouraging business in the state is inconceivable.
  The Washington Examiner lists 9 "little" facts Krugman leaves out of his unicorn column, including that California has the highest unemployment in the nation, one third of the nation's welfare recipients, the highest poverty rate, the highest income disparity, the highest taxes and energy rates and the nation's third highest paid teachers while its "students are among the least educated.
  Also at NRO, former Leftist David Horowitz discusses how and why so many universities have become Leftist pits of anti-Americanism, h8te and propaganda. 
  Daily Caller has the news of the upcoming parties of a White House, which seems oblivious to the heartache and despair in the country. Optics have never been an issue with this president so here's the party list at WH Dossier.
  Meanwhile the ever diverse Republicans continue to attack their own. Shut up, why doncha.
  Neither party is to be trusted; the corruption runs deep in both parties because it's all about getting what you didn't earn. More power. More money. More stuff.
  Which is exactly why the Tea Party is needed now more than ever; not a national Tea Party in the sense of organizations who lecture us, ask for ever more money while predicting doom and scaring the crap out of people.
  It will take time but it's possible.
  We just can't live in fairy land. 
  That's for people like Monica Lewinsky, who turned fifty today.
  And people like Paul Krugman, who just can't admit what he knows is wrong.

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Obama's war on the truth continues

  In case you've been in Palm Springs or Tennessee for Spring Break, you might not know that Obamacare,uh,  Medicare is wavering on providing free sex change operations because it's necessary for some people's well being to be a different gender by the time you reach 65, right? Hot Air discusses that, dang, all those articles about Obamacare being far more expensive than Leftists claimed knew it would be mean more debt and Obamacare won't be paid for! 
  Lawsa Mercy! it's all just spiraling out of control!
  You might also have missed that it's pretty much accepted by Leftists without squalling these days that Sarah Palin's Death Panels are going to be necessary. But don't worry. 
  That's not going to happen for about, meh, ten years because we don't have a spending problem. Why worry? Especially if you're only 30? Or a politician with a separate health care plan than Obamacare?
  The Death Panels, aka IPAB, are only the beginning. There's at least another "independent" panel made up of unelected appointed "experts" called the USPSTF.
  Because, as you'll recall, Obama says we don't have a spending problem. 
  And we should be good for about 10 years before the roof caves in, at which point it's pretty inevitable that everyone who's been scamming the rest of us is going to get socked with a huge VAT tax or something so monstrous that no one will have any sort of freedom equivalent to what we have now.
  It'd just be nice if these same political leaders who are unworried about an enormous spending problem and its consequences a few years from now would feel that way about mining the extensive energy resources under the ground of this country. "It'd take too long to develop new oil wells or fracking sites."
  So for your morning coffee enjoyment, here are a few comparative quotes:
  Dem. Tom Harkin at Hot Air:

First of all, I want to disagree with those who say we have a spending problem. Everyone keeps saying we have a spending problem. And when they talk about that, it’s like there’s an assumption that somehow we as a nation are broke. 

  Hot Air again:

During recent budget negotiations, Obama reportedly said he doesn’t believe the government has a spending problem.

  Reason Mag:

Here's Steve Benen, at Rachel Maddow's blog: "Sorry, Boehner, spending isn't the problem." Or New York magazine's Jonathan Chait: "There really isn't money to be cut everywhere....The spending cuts aren't there because they can't be found." Or Mother Jones' Kevin Drum: "We don't have a spending problem. We have an aging problem."

  Punditwire:

....January 8 issue of the Economist that made me realize that Mr. Obama was entirely right. We don’t have a spending problem; we have a tax problem. 

  ("I don't have a weight problem," the obese man said, licking his ice cream cone. "I have a height problem.") 
  Forbes:

There is ample evidence that the U.S., compared to the rest of the world, is not overtaxed. 

  Obama:

And, so, we don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt. In fact, for the next ten years, it’s gonna be in a sustainable place. 

GOP.gov:

PELOSI: “It's almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem.

•HOYER: “Does the country have a spending problem? The country has a paying for problem.

•HARKIN: “Is it a spending problem? No.”

  Reality:

  The top 50% of earners pay all the taxes.  The top 25% pay 80% of the taxes.  The top 10% pay 70% of taxes.  The top 5% pay more than 50% of taxes.  The top 1% pay 30% of taxes.

  Reality (USA Today)

  Palin's "4 Pinocchio" claim of an unelected Death Panel disparaged by WaPo:

Palin is seizing on a completely different entity to justify her provocative use of the phrase “death panel” three years ago. But the IPAB in no way resembles the “death panel” that she claims would decide whether her parents or her baby with Down Syndrome are worthy of care. Instead, it is a tool—subject to oversight and approval by Congress—to try to rein in the soaring cost of Medicare. 

Words have consequences, and Palin is fooling herself if she thinks she can justify such inappropriate terminology to describe an effort, however imperfect, to address a serious problem that politicians on both sides of the aisle say they want to solve 

  Um, wait. Famed sour Leftist Paul Krugman admits:

Eventually we do have a problem. That the population is getting older, health care costs are rising…there is this question of how we’re going to pay for the programs. The year 2025, the year 2030, something is going to have to give…. …. We’re going to need more revenue…Surely it will require some sort of middle class taxes as well.. We won’t be able to pay for the kind of government the society will want without some increase in taxes… on the middle class, maybe a value added tax…And we’re also going to have to make decisions about health care, doc pay for health care that has no demonstrated medical benefits . So the snarky version…which I shouldn’t even say because it will get me in trouble is death panels and sales taxes is how we do this.

  Famed cheerful Leftist Robert Reich:

"We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die."....., .What that means, less innovation and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market which means you are probably not going to live much longer than your parents. 

  Or let's just simplify it to this. Obama in 2006, running for President:

 Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit." 

  Obama today:

we don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt. 

  So just remember.
  Pro choice only refers to abortion, not health care or food choices or guns.
  Worrying about the future only refers to developing alternative fuels like algae in your gas tank, not about fracking or new oil wells.
  And a Death Panel is only a Death Panel if we say it is, not if you're, you know, like dead, or something.

 But when you do get slammed by the Death Panel (or IPAB or USPSTF) because you're over, say, 60, at least you'll be able to go out with the boobs you want, eh? 
  Seems like kinduva waste. Just sayin.

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So where will the gay marriage debate lead?

  If we all had some brains and forethought, we'd realize that the presentation of gay marriage to the Supreme Court wasn't really about the legitimacy of gay marriage with regard to the 14th Amendment and the idea of equal protection under the law.
  It was about the 52% of California population--the most liberal in the United States-- who voted AGAINST gay marriage.
  The judiciary in California--one of whom had a personal interest in gay marriage for himself--decided to overturn the results of an election.
  What this argument should have been about is whether the judiciary has the right to override the vote of the people.
  Instead what it's become is a self-interest lecture to the public about how everyone should be equal in marriage.
  It will be interesting to see how a ruling on an item such as this will affect equal protection under the law with regard to the payment of taxes. If you work, you pay taxes. If you make money, you pay more than those who make little.
  The top 50% of earners pay all the taxes.
  The top 25% pay 80% of the taxes.
  The top 10% pay 70% of taxes.
  The top 5% pay more than 50% of taxes.
  The top 1% pay 30% of taxes.
  So let's see a lawsuit on equal protection under the law regarding the dollars paid by the workers to the non-workers and/or low producers.
  Let's just see where this leads.

POTUS trivializes Newtown tragedy

  There's some really bad stuff going on in the news lately, so much so that it's difficult to stomach. 
  Facebook is nearly unbearable. 
  We hear story after story about government paid vacations for the Bidens, the Obamas, their daughters, and countless bureaucrats who charge everything to the taxpayer. 
  Fox News, a taxpayer watchdog group, Senator Coburn and now the NRCC have been doing exposes on the enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars spent on foolish (taxpayer subsidized cupcakes), outrageous (book club funding?) and questionable projects promoted by this government, most of which are community organizing type activities, including indoctrinating our children about sexual behavior and orientation.
  But the most annoying, the most nauseating, the most incredibly disgusting is having this POTUS look down his nose and lecture middle America, something which happened yesterday, about valuing human life because they do not agree with him.
  The usual sadsack victims were lined up behind him, the usual "if we could save just one child" rhetoric, the usual invectives were directed at the public and the usual blinky blinky blink blink blink lecture was administered to those of us who have "forgotten" what happened at Newtown.
  HE hasn't forgotten but this isn't "who we are." "We can do better than this." (Get a few new lines, why doncha.)
  "Shame on us!" he rebukes, but as White House Dossier says what POTUS means to say is "Shame on you!"
  Apparently he HAS forgotten about the border patrol agents who've died. And the Benghazi murdered, the witnesses to whom are being hidden from the public.
  I haven't forgotten. Somehow I noticed, however, that you want to take the 2nd Amendment away from honest folks in the inner city who need to defend themselves, especially in places like Chicago where Leftists who run the city refuse to enforce the laws they already have.
  Though lives are saved by owning guns, Obama believes no one should have a handgun, as if criminals and murderers will obey the law regarding guns.
  Differences of opinion are not tolerated by the community organizer; to use for political advantage such an horrendous event as Newtown is despicable.
  Absolutely despicable.
  You can watch the most obnoxious part of the video over here.
  Like I said, his ego is carrying him places he really shouldn't go.

End of the Union Monopoly

Yesterday, Michigan became the 24th right-to-work state in the US.

For some, (mainly low-information voters and union big-wigs) the legislation is an assault on their way of life. They have trotted out all the stale arguments from the past and have planned protests across the state to "educate" the electorate that by becoming a RTW state Michigan will return to the days of sweat shops.

They conducted their sit-ins and demonstrations and are currently looking for a "friendly" judge in the court system to overturn this lame-duck passed legislation.

But are they concerned about the plight of the average worker or more concerned about protecting their fat-cat way of life?

Consider:

The Nation Education Association has 3.2 million members across the US. The average salary for a teacher is $54,316 and most teachers have either seen their wages frozen or reduced over the past few years. The NEA president, Dennis Van Roekel received $397,721 in salary and benefits. (numbers courtesy of Fox News)

American Federation of State County and Municipal Workers (AFSME) has 1.5 million members. 10 officers and employees made over $200,000.00 per year and the President, Gerald McEntee made $479,328 in salary and benefits. Over the past 10 years,  Mr McEntee has received a raise averaging 4%. (courtesy Fox News)

It should also be noted that the Democrat Party, which is always "championing" the cause of "spreading the wealth around" is the major recipient of the two unions largesse. Receiving 98% of the $3.7 million dollars in donations from the NEA and $2.3 million from AFSCME.

For years the unions have enjoyed a monopoly in this country and have exacted a "tax" from it's membership in the form of dues. It has written language into contracts that exact that same "tax" from people who don't wish to join the union in the form of "service fees." In order to work, you had to pay.

But in 24 states, the monopoly is now over. The individual worker can now withhold financial support if he thinks the union is headed in the wrong direction. The union is now in the same position as the retailer. For once, it has to EARN what it asks it's membership to contribute.

And that is a good thing.

The Hunger Games come to America

  You may have read about pop star Justin Bieber's recent bizarre behavior, the latest his appearing at the airport half naked to go through security. 
  (While most of us feel like that's what we're reduced when going through airport security, take a look at Bieber here and tell me that's normal for a pop star. I mean, I know young fellas showing their underpants is all the rage these days in spite of admonitions that the style started in prison as a symbol of availability and that even peopleofwalmart.com got in on the ridicule and maybe Bieber's just looking for any excuse to show off his abs, but this behavior is getting pretty cuckoo bird.)
  Obviously there's concern over Bieber's state of mind, and indeed his past behavior indicates he may be developing some serious mental issues.
  Sociologically what's interesting to me, however, is that Bieber also seems to be suffering from the ego enlargement that infects so many celebrities who surround themselves with sycophantic suck-ups who toady to their every whim such as removing all the brown M&Ms so his/her majesty won't have to be tainted by touching them. Or something.
  I don't usually delve into pop stars' behavior because this blog isn't intended to be like TMZ or Perez Hilton but I've been struck lately with the prima donna-ish behavior of most of our elected politicians, many of whom are exhibiting a rude and bold disregard for the public who foot the bills for their limousines.
  Once they get into office, taste the power of having their own personal toadies, limousine chauffeurs, private gyms and trainers, permanent reservations at exclusive restaurants, unlimited funds for any heart's desire and the right to scream "Don't you know who I am?" to any underling, they change.
  The concept of being judicious with money seems to be an unreasonable demand. Like the singer who spends $36,000 on every manicure, politicians have no trouble whatsoever spending enormous amounts of cash on themselves, the people who surround them. 
  We are indeed becoming a 2 tiered society, much like the Hunger Games, except that totally out of touch, selfish 1 percenters are the politicians and those who live in the thriving DC area and the unwashed masses include everyone outside the Washington, DC, area.
  Recent days, admittedly, things have gotten worse, as money is thrown here and there in the millions--even billions--while punishing school kids and airline travelers:

• Six months late and for the first time in four years, the Senate finally (yawn) got around to submitting a budget. Who cares how much debt we're accruing for the next generation?
• Obama's too busy golfing with Tiger Woods to even bother to submit a budget yet. Apparently we have problem with optics since the reelection.
• The Democrat Senate has never passed a budget submitted by Obama. Apparently budgets are for the little people. If we could only print our own money. Sigh.
• The Obamas have no trouble telling YOU to sacrifice, but even their children get separate exclusive vacations at great expense to the taxpayers. Thousands of dollars to spend on a trip for POTUS's  teenagers and their friends to the Bahamas but no White House tour for you.
• Taxpayers also flew an Obama daughter and her friends to Mexico for a break.
• Biden blew almost $600,000 just on hotel accommodations for one night in Paris rather than stay at the American Embassy.
• Biden spent $460,000 on one night of hotel accommodations in London.
• Biden spent $320,000 on limousine service for that one night in Paris.
• Taxpayers spend half a million dollars on water bottles for lawmakers.
• Just before releasing illegal criminals into the country and just as Napolitano threatened that lines will increase for the little people at the airport because of a 2% cut in this year's raise, the TSA spent $50 million on new uniforms, far more than even the Marines spend on uniforms.
• We know you're impressed by those TSA personnel, many of whom are criminals themselves, strutting around with their coffee cups, occasionally barking orders for you to hurry up the line. Just remember those outfits were personally fitted to each of them and cost $1,000 apiece but they had to buy their own shoes.
• Obama found the money to designate 5 new government memorials in blue states, including Ohio.
• Thousands and thousands of new federal jobs have been posted just in the past few weeks, in spite of sequester threats.
• In spite of relatively low costs, the White House refuses to allow children tours through the "people's house."

  Of course, it's not all about money.
  It's about power. 
  And threats to the taxpayer that they'd better stay in line.
  And decisions that affect our lives negatively regardless the cost.
  And  unbelievable waste, including government investment in cronies' businesses which yield little or nothing in the way of a product. It's the Tea Party's fault, the cronies claim, because prior to citizen protests, this would have been a "simple, noncontroversial tax credit."
  Yeaah. We got that.
  One has to wonder if, like Bieber, a crack-up is imminent.

Dems' formula for success not so successful

  We've pointed out on many occasions the problems with Obamacare; today Betsy McCaughey has an informative column at the NY Post. If you'll recall, Ms. McCaughey is former Lt. Gov. of New York and one of the first to read through and discuss with the public the actual bill and its ramifications, unlike the many politicians who so eagerly signed it into law. 
  She continues to do so as more and more regulations are written every day. You met the Red Tape Tower this weekend, as we posted below.
  What's most unnerving is that, as much as dislike for Obamacare has permeated the consciousness of the American public, it really appears at this point that the people in charge of implementing this program simply do not know what they're doing, have no clear system of organization and are basically winging it in an attempt to make over 20,000 pages of regulations workable nationally for over 300 million people, writing more regulations as they go.
  McCaughey's article entitled Disaster for Dems is an eye popper:

Other chaos will abound. Consumers trying to get their insurance from a state exchange will have to hand their Social Security Number and 15 pages of financial and family information to exchange “assisters” — temps often hired from community groups. In California, civil-rights activists are fighting to prevent background checks for would-be “assisters” because it would disqualify too many minority men with prior convictions.

  McCaughey notes how drastically this bill will affect young people financially as their health premiums will double; health care for seniors will be cut back as a result of the billions of dollars removed from Medicare to support the enormous rickety structure of Obamacare itself, and hospitals are given financial rewards to cut services for the elderly.
  Make no mistake: incentives that will undermine health care, business and American prosperity are very much a part of this law.
  Though taking over 1/6 of the economy sounded so tempting to Democrats--it is a game changer--in a bid to insert more governmental control into our lives, they are now responsible for the mess heading our way, to be fulfilled in January of 2014, an election year.
  And people like me can warn all we want about what's coming but until the public, many of whom are low information voters, experiences this travesty for themselves, these pampered one percenter politicians will answer to no one.
  Because, hey, there's money to be made out there in fines and more jobs for regulators.
  Sounds like a formula for success, eh?

Meet Red Tape Tower

  In case you were snuggling in thinking Obamacare is going swimmingly, you might take a look at this photograph of all the current regulations more of which are added each week:

  Via Legal Insurrection, you can follow the Twitter feed of RedTape Tower, who's an active tweeter,  here.

Already, Obamacare is failing

  Actually if I were inspired enough to tire myself out writing  extensively in this blog post, I could cite many, many instances in which Obamacare is already failing. 
  But I'm lazy and bitter because the government says Northwest Ohio should expect a snowstorm tomorrow, so I'll just cite this article over at Daily Caller, which scratches the surface of some of the things that are wrong with Obamacare, not to mention the price hikes, etc., that we already know:

In “50 Vetoes,” a study released today by the Cato Institute, I explain the administration is so afraid of a sticker-shock fueled backlash that it is preparing to spend more than $600 billion that Congress never authorized to numb consumers to the costs of this law. Along the way, the administration will impose roughly $100 billion in illegal taxes on employers and individuals (including some legal immigrants below the poverty level), and deny millions of individuals the right to purchase low-cost “catastrophic plans.” 

To cement the law’s Medicaid expansion in place, the administration is also violating the Supreme Court’s ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius. The Court prohibited the federal government from coercing states into implementing the expansion. Yet HHS is still threatening every state with the loss of all federal Medicaid funds if they fail to implement parts of the expansion. These are not the actions of an administration that feels its health care law is secure.

  The full report is here. 
  About those 2014 elections. How rich for those weasly vermin to suffer the repercussions of yet another wrong forecast concerning the debacle known as Obamacare after using faulty government data, calculations and downright lies.
  As far as that storm goes, let's hope it turns out to be 3 flakes like the last forecast "blizzard."
UPDATE: Moe Lane, who is much more energetic than I, has more here. He says, please, Democrats, please embrace Obamacare.

Let’s put up a scale. On one side you put free mammograms, no restrictions on coverage because of pre-existing conditions, and kids being on their parents’ health insurance until they’re 26; on the other we’ll put across-the-board rises in premiums, people losing their existing coverage en masse because employers can’t afford the new requirements, people losing their jobs because employers can’t afford the new requirements, and of course the individual mandate. Which side of the scale do you think is going to be heavier, in terms of both number of people affected and how they’re going to be affected? Spoiler warning: it’s not the first one. Additional spoiler warning: the Democratic party leadership quietly agrees with me.

Obama's EASTER EGG

  Do you know what an Easter egg is?
  Certainly you do, you say.  It's something that in all likelihood will not be rolled on the White House lawn this year (that would be "the people's house) because of that mean sequester trim of 2% of the federal government's RAISE this year.
  We've already spent more this year than last. CNS tells us the truth about Obama's sad face about "cuts":

Thus, federal spending was $30,548,000,000.00 more in the first five months of fiscal 2013 than it was during the first five months of fiscal 2012. 

The federal government is also spending at a much faster pace this year than it did before President Barack Obama took office.

  Like everything from this administration, there's always an Easter Egg in every gift basket. 
  An Easter Egg is described by Wikipedia:

An Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, inside joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program,movie, book, or crossword. The term was coined—according to Warren Robinett—by Atari after they were pointed to the secret message left by Robinett in the game Adventure.[1] The name has been said to evoke the idea of a traditional Easter egg hunt.[2]

  Like Obamacare, there's always an intentional hidden message-- lots of surprises, new regulations, taxes and penalties. Like the financial incentives hospitals have NOT to treat senior citizens. Like the fact that the ranks of the uninsured have grown. And like young people getting totally screwed by all the debt that is being accrued.
  There's a hidden intentional message in every package we get from this White House, as in dropping the annual rolling of Easter eggs at the White House. 
  The Easter Egg is that there's no reason to drop the event because of cost but we're doing it anyway to punish you. 
  I can't wait until the 2014 elections.