America's Real Heroes
April 27, 2012
By Ron Hart
As John Stossel points out in his great new book, "No They Can't, Why Government Fails -- but Individuals Succeed," we are convinced by liberal academia and the mainstream media that politicians are somehow heroic. In annual Harris Interactive polls, people were asked to name their heroes. In 2001, Jesus Christ won. In 2009, Obama won, followed closely by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
When former U.S. Senator Edwin Muskie died, newspapers and TV ran long and solemn tributes to the Democrat operative. For its maudlin tribute, The New York Times tapped Bill Clinton for his testimonial that "Generations to come will benefit" from Muskie's work. Stossel points out that David Packard, founder of Hewlett Packard, died on the same day; the papers ran much smaller obituaries.
"Laser printers, 60 million PCs, hundreds of useful products and thousands of jobs existed because of David Packard." He created thousands of millionaires and a $5 billion foundation that helps children. With his management style from the computer company he founded, Packard reordered corporate America. He got rid of executive suites so all workers could communicate better. He came up with the profit sharing plan, flex-time for workers, and many other innovations that made Americans' lives better. Today his company, founded in a garage, employs 340,000 people.
Yet Edwin Muskie was viewed by the media as amazing. David Packard was just a greedy, evil businessman.
Those who believe that government has magical "transformative powers" also seek to convince us that all of our ills can be blamed on someone else. That was the whole "hope and change" shell game Obama played on the country in 2008. "Just vote for me and all your problems will go away." If government could make you feel better about yourself, it would be a bar.
Obama believes that corporations are inherently evil and are out to destroy workers. Mr. President needs to put down the John Grisham novels and read the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman.
U.S. enterprises have done more to better the lives of Americans than any politician. The best we can hope for in our elected officials is that they will get out of the way, taking their regulations and graft with them, so American ingenuity and enterprise can lift the standard of living of all our citizens.
The real reason politicians fight so hard to get reelected, at all costs, is that they fear having to live under the laws and regulations they created.
Obama spent the past week giving teleprompter speeches about his vision of "fairness" and how, if only we passed his "Buffet Rule," all would be right with the world. Never mind that both liberal and conservative economists scored it as a political game of conjured-up envy. The bill raises only $5 billion. It's simple math: Obama has run up $5 trillion in deficit spending, so $5 billion divided by $5 trillion is one tenth of one percent (.001). It was another class envy ploy, not a real proposal.
He even lined up a few millionaire donors, mostly Democrat fundraisers, to stand behind him while he made his pitch to the nation for raising taxes. They had confessed to Obama, the high priest of taxation, that they did not pay their "fair share" and should be ashamed. It is an article of faith among the few still-rich liberals that being rich is OK as long as you feel guilty about it.
This Democrat Kabuki theater has all the substance of a WWF match between Obama, the Defender of the People, and the evil Darth Vader (a political rival to be named later). I trust the average voter sees this for what it is: unsubstantial political pandering and grandstanding.
Obama made $900,000 less last year than he did in the previous year. So even he is suffering under his own economic policies. This is a man whose entire wealth has come from writing two books about himself before he had actually done anything. Harvard now offers a class called "Understanding Obama" -- a class I doubt even Obama could teach.
Our country is great because of good people who pursue their own self-interests in business. Businesses power our country, and citizens power innovation. People like David Packard and their vision make us great, not opportunistic politicians who create nothing of economic or moral value.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
OBAMA'S 2012 CAMPAIGN SLOGAN HAS SOCIALIST IMPLICATIONS
The Obama campaign has settled on a slogan for the 2012 campaign. It is one word …. Forward.
“Forward” has long been associated with the socialist and communist movement --- dating back to 1844. Since Obama is a Marxist – why not the name of a publication Marx and Engels published that year in Paris?
Yesterday morning if you went to Wikipedia you found a long history of socialist and communist publications published in many languages, principally German, Russian and French, using that name as their title. That Wikipedia entry began with this:
The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other leftwing newspapers and publications, denoting an urge for progress.
But the Obama minions were demanding that Wikipedia remove that reference to the word “forward” being a generic name of socialist publications. Toward the middle of the afternoon if you clicked on that link it would say
" This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy.
Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page.
Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed."
By the end of the day, if you searched the word “Forward” in Wikipedia, the link to that entry had been removed from the website. Instead, now a section labeled “Publications” has appeared, listing some of the various examples. Here’s the original Wikipedia search.
I firmly believe he is once again giving us a subtle message as to what may be in store for the country if he is re-elected.
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“Forward” has long been associated with the socialist and communist movement --- dating back to 1844. Since Obama is a Marxist – why not the name of a publication Marx and Engels published that year in Paris?
Yesterday morning if you went to Wikipedia you found a long history of socialist and communist publications published in many languages, principally German, Russian and French, using that name as their title. That Wikipedia entry began with this:
The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other leftwing newspapers and publications, denoting an urge for progress.
But the Obama minions were demanding that Wikipedia remove that reference to the word “forward” being a generic name of socialist publications. Toward the middle of the afternoon if you clicked on that link it would say
" This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy.
Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page.
Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed."
By the end of the day, if you searched the word “Forward” in Wikipedia, the link to that entry had been removed from the website. Instead, now a section labeled “Publications” has appeared, listing some of the various examples. Here’s the original Wikipedia search.
Politics
- Forward (generic name of socialist publications)
- Forward (Greenland), a social democratic political party in Greenland
- Kadima (Hebrew for forward), an Israeli political party
- Socialist league VPERED, a Russian political party
- Forward (Obama-Biden Campaign Slogan)
I firmly believe he is once again giving us a subtle message as to what may be in store for the country if he is re-elected.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
I GUESS THIS IS JUST NOT AS IMPORTANT TO THEM AS IT IS TO US!
Over a combined total of nine and a half hours of programming, CBS, NBC
and ABC allowed a mere 72 seconds of coverage to the news, Monday, that
Social Security will go bankrupt three years earlier than previously
expected. ABC's World News and NBC's Nightly News
skipped the subject entirely. The same networks that offered copious
amounts of stories to a vague threat of future global warming disaster,
found little interest in the coming problems of Social Security.
Scott Pelley briefly explained on Monday's Evening News:
"Medicare will run out of money in 2024. Social Security retirement
benefits run out in 2035. But Social Security disability benefits will
be exhausted long before that, in 2016."
Read the full story at: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/looming-threat-social-security-implosion-results-just-72-seconds-network-coverage
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Read the full story at: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/looming-threat-social-security-implosion-results-just-72-seconds-network-coverage
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
TALKING POINTS TO USE AGAINST LIBTARDS
Neal Boortz is going to try to build a little cheat sheet that his readers can use when they get into the inevitable arguments with voters involved in the national suicide pact to reelect Barack Obama. For the first portion of the cheat sheet he relied for the most part on some data gleaned from a column by U.S. News & World Report editor Mort Zuckerman.
Here then are the talking points you can use when arguing with your libtard friends.
How about a job? About 15 million Americans of working age have no job and are looking for work.
Every fifth man in America is out of a job.
Fewer Jobs. There are 5.5 million fewer jobs right now than there were when Obama was inaugurated.
Employment Levels. Employment has been below the pre-recession peak for over 50 consecutive months.
U3 Unemployment Stats. This is the 8.2% figure quoted by Obama for last month. This counts only people who have applied for a job in the previous four weeks.
U6 Unemployment Stats. This figure counts the number of people who have applied for jobs in the previous 6 weeks. It also includes people who are working in part-time jobs who want to work full time. The U6 unemployment rate is now around 15%
College Graduates. In 2007 90% of all college graduates found a job. Today that figure is 56%.
Nearly 87 million Americans are NOT in the labor force.
Dropping Out. Since Obama was sworn in about 3 million people have dropped out of the jobs market. These people are no longer even bothering to look for a job. If they were still in the market – still hopeful – the unemployment rate would be about 10.8%.
Economic Growth after Great Depression. In 1934, 35 and 36 our economy grew at 11%, 9% and 13%. Economic growth in 2010 was 3%. In 2011 it was 1.7%. This year we’re running between 2 and 3%.
Ethnic Jobless Rates. For young workers 20 to 24 the unemployment rate is 13%. For Hispanic teenagers it’s 30.5%. For black teenagers it’s 37.9%.
Private Sector Hiring. Through June of 2011 private sector hiring was 10 times slower after the passage of ObamaCare than it was in the 16 months prior to ObamaCare.
New Businesses. We need 1 million new businesses every year to sustain growth. We’re running about 400,000 right now.
Layoffs and Hiring. In the first months of 2012 layoffs have risen 18% from a year ago. Hiring plans have dropped 82%.
Per Capita Income. In May of 2008 per capital income in the U.S. was at $37,752. It’s now at $37,606. Adjust this for inflation and you have $36,641 in 2008 dropping to $32,600 now. This is the first time since the 1930s that inflation-adjusted incomes have decreased in America.
Welfare. Over $1 trillion spent on government entitlement programs in the last two years.
Welfare Increase. A 5,500% jump in means tested welfare since 1970.
Welfare percentage. Over ½ of households in America have someone receiving entitlement checks.
Food Stamps. Under Obama food stamp use has increased by 41%. Every 7th person you pass on the sidewalk is on food stamps.
EBT Cards. The increase in the use of EBT cards is 135%.
Border Control. First Prez. To “Walk” weapons across the Border WITHOUT attempting to track them or contact the Mexican Authorities, resulting in over 200 deaths – including a Law Enforcement Officer. All for the purpose of setting up a gun registration system, "under the radar."
First President to subject the US to a credit DOWNGRADE.
First President To eat Dog.
OK … that’s a start. He’ll work on gathering more statistics and expanding this list. Now you’re not going to get a lot of converts face-to-face, but there’s always the possibility that some Obama myrmidon, when faced with these facts, will have a second thought when they actually walk into a voting booth. Forward this to all your friends .. especially friends who still think Obama is actually good for this country.
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Here then are the talking points you can use when arguing with your libtard friends.
How about a job? About 15 million Americans of working age have no job and are looking for work.
Every fifth man in America is out of a job.
Fewer Jobs. There are 5.5 million fewer jobs right now than there were when Obama was inaugurated.
Employment Levels. Employment has been below the pre-recession peak for over 50 consecutive months.
U3 Unemployment Stats. This is the 8.2% figure quoted by Obama for last month. This counts only people who have applied for a job in the previous four weeks.
U6 Unemployment Stats. This figure counts the number of people who have applied for jobs in the previous 6 weeks. It also includes people who are working in part-time jobs who want to work full time. The U6 unemployment rate is now around 15%
College Graduates. In 2007 90% of all college graduates found a job. Today that figure is 56%.
Nearly 87 million Americans are NOT in the labor force.
Dropping Out. Since Obama was sworn in about 3 million people have dropped out of the jobs market. These people are no longer even bothering to look for a job. If they were still in the market – still hopeful – the unemployment rate would be about 10.8%.
Economic Growth after Great Depression. In 1934, 35 and 36 our economy grew at 11%, 9% and 13%. Economic growth in 2010 was 3%. In 2011 it was 1.7%. This year we’re running between 2 and 3%.
Ethnic Jobless Rates. For young workers 20 to 24 the unemployment rate is 13%. For Hispanic teenagers it’s 30.5%. For black teenagers it’s 37.9%.
Private Sector Hiring. Through June of 2011 private sector hiring was 10 times slower after the passage of ObamaCare than it was in the 16 months prior to ObamaCare.
New Businesses. We need 1 million new businesses every year to sustain growth. We’re running about 400,000 right now.
Layoffs and Hiring. In the first months of 2012 layoffs have risen 18% from a year ago. Hiring plans have dropped 82%.
Per Capita Income. In May of 2008 per capital income in the U.S. was at $37,752. It’s now at $37,606. Adjust this for inflation and you have $36,641 in 2008 dropping to $32,600 now. This is the first time since the 1930s that inflation-adjusted incomes have decreased in America.
Welfare. Over $1 trillion spent on government entitlement programs in the last two years.
Welfare Increase. A 5,500% jump in means tested welfare since 1970.
Welfare percentage. Over ½ of households in America have someone receiving entitlement checks.
Food Stamps. Under Obama food stamp use has increased by 41%. Every 7th person you pass on the sidewalk is on food stamps.
EBT Cards. The increase in the use of EBT cards is 135%.
Border Control. First Prez. To “Walk” weapons across the Border WITHOUT attempting to track them or contact the Mexican Authorities, resulting in over 200 deaths – including a Law Enforcement Officer. All for the purpose of setting up a gun registration system, "under the radar."
First President to subject the US to a credit DOWNGRADE.
First President To eat Dog.
OK … that’s a start. He’ll work on gathering more statistics and expanding this list. Now you’re not going to get a lot of converts face-to-face, but there’s always the possibility that some Obama myrmidon, when faced with these facts, will have a second thought when they actually walk into a voting booth. Forward this to all your friends .. especially friends who still think Obama is actually good for this country.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
DOGS OF AMERICA BEWARE IF OBAMA INVITES YOU OVER FOR DINNER.
Good thing we found out before the next election that Obama eats dogs. You can save your faithful pal's life by not voting for him.
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Friday, April 20, 2012
ROMNEY IS 'DEAD WRONG ON THIS: OBAMA IS *NOT* A NICE GUY!
No More “Mr. Obama Is a Nice Guy”
by Michelle Malkin
Re-printed with permission
There is a reflexive desire among a certain species of moderate Republicans to be perceived as “civil” by liberal opponents who believe that the mere existence of free-market, limited-government conservatism is an indecent affront to humankind. All aboard the U.S.S. Lost Cause.
This disastrous, bend-over bipartisanship is a hard habit to break. In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain rode the “Barack Obama is a nice guy, but vote for me” wave to crashing defeat. In 2012, McCain’s endorsee, Mitt Romney, has made “Barack Obama is a nice guy but in over his head” a standard stump-speech talking point.
Conservatives of good will who’ve watched President Obama brutalize his enemies have one question for the nice-guy niceties: Why, GOP, why?
Romney’s smarter-than-thou strategists explain that he can’t scare off independents and Democrats with straight talk about Obama’s thuggery. But he’s turning off the conservative base, on whom his hold is tenuous. More importantly, Romney’s McCain-lite impersonation is also writing off independents and Democrats who’ve come to realize what the myriad targets of White House bullying have learned the hard way over the past four years: Barack Obama is not a “nice guy.”
Ask Gerald Walpin, the former AmeriCorps inspector general who was pushed out of his job by the Obamas after exposing fraud and corruption perpetrated by Democratic mayor of Sacramento and Obama friend Kevin Johnson. Walpin was unceremoniously fired and smeared by Team Obama. The White House baselessly questioned the veteran watchdog’s mental health and never apologized for slandering him.
Ask the family, friends and co-workers of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. They have been forced to sue the Obama administration to combat the Operation Fast and Furious cover-up of deadly policy decisions that led to their hero’s death. “I think they are liars, and I would tell them that,” Terry’s father, Kent, said of Obama’s henchmen.
As Townhall editor Katie Pavlich makes clear in her devastating new book, “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up,” the president, his corrupt attorney general, Eric Holder, and their minions weren’t “in over their heads.” They knew exactly what they were doing and have obstructed investigations into the bloody consequences of their policies ever since. That’s not “nice.” It’s rotten to the core.
Nice? Ask those who have felt the wrath of Obama: tea party members, bitter-clinging gun owners and voters of faith; budget-reform leaders, such as Wisconsin’s GOP Rep. Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker, Chrysler creditors and dealers, and Delphi auto-parts workers strong-armed and cut out of the White House auto bailout negotiations with United Auto Workers; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity and their donors; Fox News, conservative talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh; the Congressional Budget Office and the Supreme Court.
There is nothing shameful about shattering the left’s defining fraudulent narrative — which was promoted again this week by myth-making first lady Michelle Obama — that the president has “brought us out of the dark and into the light.”
There is nothing hateful about exposing Team Obama’s hardball tactics and government witch-hunts against taxpayers, businesses and political opponents. There is nothing unbecoming or un-presidential about questioning the Obama administration’s Chicago gangster treatment of dissidents, whistleblowers and watchdogs.
Let it be noted that Mr. “Nice Guy” never goes out of his way to show his opponents respect. In 2008, Obama openly bragged that his campaign strategy is: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” Remember when he sneered at millions who turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests in 2009: “You would think they’d be saying thank you.” Remember when he taunted GOP leaders: “We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.” Remember when he told Republicans to shut up during the stimulus debate: “I want them just to get out of the way” and “don’t do a lot of talking.”
Remember when he outrageously insinuated before the 2010 midterms that conservatives were racist: He called critics of his amnesty policies “enemies” who needed to be “punished” by Latino voters because they were not “the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.”
Remember when he remained silent about his surrogates’ misogynistic attacks on GOP vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Remember when he remained silent about the vulgar rallying cry of Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa, who introduced Obama at a Detroit Labor Day rally by urging union members to work against Republicans and “take these son of a bitches out.”
Romney’s surrogates insist that conservatives should “stick to the issues.” But Obama’s by-any-means-necessary ruthlessness is an issue. Like Chiffon Margarine said, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” And it’s not nice to delude the American electorate in the name of comity, politesse and simpering civility.
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by Michelle Malkin
Re-printed with permission
There is a reflexive desire among a certain species of moderate Republicans to be perceived as “civil” by liberal opponents who believe that the mere existence of free-market, limited-government conservatism is an indecent affront to humankind. All aboard the U.S.S. Lost Cause.
This disastrous, bend-over bipartisanship is a hard habit to break. In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain rode the “Barack Obama is a nice guy, but vote for me” wave to crashing defeat. In 2012, McCain’s endorsee, Mitt Romney, has made “Barack Obama is a nice guy but in over his head” a standard stump-speech talking point.
Conservatives of good will who’ve watched President Obama brutalize his enemies have one question for the nice-guy niceties: Why, GOP, why?
Romney’s smarter-than-thou strategists explain that he can’t scare off independents and Democrats with straight talk about Obama’s thuggery. But he’s turning off the conservative base, on whom his hold is tenuous. More importantly, Romney’s McCain-lite impersonation is also writing off independents and Democrats who’ve come to realize what the myriad targets of White House bullying have learned the hard way over the past four years: Barack Obama is not a “nice guy.”
Ask Gerald Walpin, the former AmeriCorps inspector general who was pushed out of his job by the Obamas after exposing fraud and corruption perpetrated by Democratic mayor of Sacramento and Obama friend Kevin Johnson. Walpin was unceremoniously fired and smeared by Team Obama. The White House baselessly questioned the veteran watchdog’s mental health and never apologized for slandering him.
Ask the family, friends and co-workers of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. They have been forced to sue the Obama administration to combat the Operation Fast and Furious cover-up of deadly policy decisions that led to their hero’s death. “I think they are liars, and I would tell them that,” Terry’s father, Kent, said of Obama’s henchmen.
As Townhall editor Katie Pavlich makes clear in her devastating new book, “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up,” the president, his corrupt attorney general, Eric Holder, and their minions weren’t “in over their heads.” They knew exactly what they were doing and have obstructed investigations into the bloody consequences of their policies ever since. That’s not “nice.” It’s rotten to the core.
Nice? Ask those who have felt the wrath of Obama: tea party members, bitter-clinging gun owners and voters of faith; budget-reform leaders, such as Wisconsin’s GOP Rep. Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker, Chrysler creditors and dealers, and Delphi auto-parts workers strong-armed and cut out of the White House auto bailout negotiations with United Auto Workers; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity and their donors; Fox News, conservative talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh; the Congressional Budget Office and the Supreme Court.
There is nothing shameful about shattering the left’s defining fraudulent narrative — which was promoted again this week by myth-making first lady Michelle Obama — that the president has “brought us out of the dark and into the light.”
There is nothing hateful about exposing Team Obama’s hardball tactics and government witch-hunts against taxpayers, businesses and political opponents. There is nothing unbecoming or un-presidential about questioning the Obama administration’s Chicago gangster treatment of dissidents, whistleblowers and watchdogs.
Let it be noted that Mr. “Nice Guy” never goes out of his way to show his opponents respect. In 2008, Obama openly bragged that his campaign strategy is: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” Remember when he sneered at millions who turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests in 2009: “You would think they’d be saying thank you.” Remember when he taunted GOP leaders: “We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.” Remember when he told Republicans to shut up during the stimulus debate: “I want them just to get out of the way” and “don’t do a lot of talking.”
Remember when he outrageously insinuated before the 2010 midterms that conservatives were racist: He called critics of his amnesty policies “enemies” who needed to be “punished” by Latino voters because they were not “the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.”
Remember when he remained silent about his surrogates’ misogynistic attacks on GOP vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Remember when he remained silent about the vulgar rallying cry of Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa, who introduced Obama at a Detroit Labor Day rally by urging union members to work against Republicans and “take these son of a bitches out.”
Romney’s surrogates insist that conservatives should “stick to the issues.” But Obama’s by-any-means-necessary ruthlessness is an issue. Like Chiffon Margarine said, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” And it’s not nice to delude the American electorate in the name of comity, politesse and simpering civility.
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