State Emigration

California is a mess. The liberals running this welfare palace came face to face with the taxpayers who couldn’t afford to escape. Mr. Obama, who read the national polls, won’t lend them a dime and the remaining California taxpayers shot down any increase in taxes.

The real problem that the California politicians have is that the citizens still have options. Businesses and the industrious are voting with their feet. They are clearing out in droves. And it is no surprise that the throngs of bureaucrats, illegal aliens and welfare recipients can’t find others to pay for their luxuries.

Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts have the same problem. They are running out of people willing to fund the blood suckers. Like California, the Democratic majorities running these welfare colonies thought the revenue stream was infinite.

They are beginning to see the flaw in their methodology. Raising taxes increases the burden on those who remain behind, which in turn accelerates the stampede. Once state revenues overreach their maximum elasticity the economies implode, infrastructures deteriorate, and unemployment hits the stratosphere.

The intelligent are bailing out of these welfare conclaves before there are no buyers for their homes and businesses. In the vernacular, they are getting out while the getting is good.

Now, the only hope for the liberals running these states is that Obama, Reid and Pelosi will bleed the other states dry. National healthcare, trillion dollar deficits, blanket amnesty, open borders, and Cap & Trade will pretty much crush private enterprise, which will curtail the appeal of the Red states.

Once the escape valve is closed the liberals believe they won’t have to compete in a free market. These clowns are in for a rude awakening. Capital and business will flee the US shores along with America’s best and brightest.

Innovation and capital investment drive the commerce which funds government. Pull this plug and diversity, multi-culturalism and affirmative action become moot.

Reverse discrimination and class warfare won’t immediately become antiquities. They will last until there is no income to redistribute and only second-rate candidates are available to fill the diminishing vacancies.

Be confident a few enterprising countries will see the opportunity that Obama, Reid and Pelosi are offering. They will put out the welcome mat for the Fortune 500, Wall Street and our engineers, scientists and medical practitioners.

And be equally assured that their welcome signs won’t include the US’ tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The agenda of Obama, Pelosi and Reid is to America what drought is to fertile land. They are a curse on the United States of America.

A Lousy Deal

It appears that Mr. Obama’s popularity has reached a crescendo. About sixty percent of the people still like this hip, cool cat, but they are backing away from his agenda. If the economy suddenly brightens he will again be on solid ground, but that’s a frayed lifeline.

Right now his administration is in mud right up to the top of its boots. It’s the staggering deficit that he built, with the help of Pelosi and Reid, which has folks twitching. As it turns out, moderate Democrats and Independents aren’t willing to sell the financial independence of their children and grandchildren for thirty pieces of silver.

Of course, his drooling supporters don’t have a problem with destroying private enterprise and our national security for that price. In truth, they don’t understand the relationship between business, productivity, capital investment, employment, prosperity and the generation of taxes which funds their lifestyle.

His hardcore constituency is comprised of bureaucrats, illegal aliens, ignorant environmentalists, union members and welfare recipients. These are not the people that fuel the engine of commerce that keeps America’s beacon shining. They are the sludge in the tank.

Compared to the goals of these freeloaders, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is a wonderful man who is merely a victim of bad publicity.

Obama’s nationalization of the banks and the auto industry, his bailout of the Wall Street elite, his effort to double or triple the cost of energy, while printing money, pushing blanket amnesty for illegal aliens and promoting an unfunded, government takeover of healthcare have people questioning his agenda.

Of course, the fiscally literate, including the Congressional Budget Office, are questioning his sanity and the intelligence of his followers.

The Middle Class is beginning to realize that its income is on the short list for income redistribution. And Pelosi, Reid, Barney and Obama are offering a lousy deal. They are buying the freedom and independence of America’s industrious with the money they plan on confiscating from them.

That’s like being forced to dig your own grave before being shot and dumped in the hole. And that is a perfect description of Obama economics. His agenda is digging capitalism’s grave; which this golden-tongued wonder is selling as tilled garden plots.

The 2010 congressional elections may not come soon enough. Pelosi, Reid and Obama still have eighteen months to undermine America’s greatness. The country is in grave danger, and there is no sign that the mainstream media is interested in challenging the implications of their socialist agenda.

These sycophants have raised pandering to an art form high enough to cast a shadow on the flags flying over our national cemeteries. They shame the nation, its Constitution and every person who believes in liberty. Compared to them, Obama is just a national disgrace.

Freedom Fighters

When the politicians are in control of investigating and prosecuting the theft of government property and other felonies, the infractions are frequently ignored to protect friends, colleagues and campaign contributors.

The practice of protecting political insiders exists on every level of government, and is not peculiar to Democrats or Republicans. The bevy of tax evaders uncovered when Mr. Obama was filling executive posts is indicative of the attitude of the politically connected.

They are an insulated, protected species. Before the era of government partnered infomercials the mainstream media would tie bells on these cats. Now the media arrives on the White House grounds with sound dampeners and tunnel vision, ready to parrot the approved questions.

Fox News is the only outlet that still practices journalism. And make no mistake about it; its reporters are personae non grata at the White House. ACORN, Reverend Wright, and Barney Frank’s involvement in the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac never would have surfaced without its tenacity.

Fox is the outlet that reported the firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Ostensibly, the White House dismissed him because he was “confused and disoriented” and “unduly disruptive” at a meeting.

In fact, this man had the temerity to report that Kevin Johnson, now the mayor of Sacramento, was playing fast and loose with stimulus funds. Walpin was fired for collecting and providing evidence of the skullduggery of Obama’s good friend and campaign contributor.

In layman terms, the excuse created for firing Walpin, a man in his mid 70’s, is that he was too old and senile to do the job. The White House just put a shot across the bow of every citizen over the age of 65. Obama signaled every US employer that age is an acceptable reason for terminating employees.

There is another thread that weaves through this. Obama, despite denials, wants to nationalize healthcare. Services are rationed in every country with government run healthcare. Our socialist leader just defined where the elderly will stand in the pecking order once government bureaucrats determine eligibility for medical procedures.

The thread doesn’t stop there. Consider the tactics used by the leadership in Iran to end the protest over the rigged presidential election. Only the news outlets loyal to the administration are allowed to publish. The internet and even electricity is being shutoff to thwart the communication of the protesters.

Obama and the Democrats own the mainstream media. These obedient lapdogs promote their agenda. Now consider the Democrats’ efforts to silence talk radio and the constant drumbeat belittling FOX News emanating from the White House.

This is not a coincidence. This is a war against the last bastions of the free press. Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are the only major news providers standing between the liberty of Americans, private enterprise, Judeo Christian ideals and Obama’s scorched earth, anti-capitalist agenda.

Medical Malpractice

The healthcare debate is just winding up. Senator Dodd, a practicing socialist, blamed the rising costs in the medical industry on those nasty capitalists seeking profits. The local hospitals and family physicians are part of this evil cabal.

His solution was predictable. Dodd wants congress to create a national insurance agency to compete with the 350 private medical insurers. He insists that the introduction of this option will cause the private insurance companies to sharpen their pencils.

The illustrious Senator from Connecticut and Obama believe much of the cost of such a program will be recouped by eliminating the endemic corruption in Medicare and Medicaid.

Dodd estimates the costs of these medical entitlement programs could be reduced by 30% if the corruption and mismanagement of the system were eliminated. He’s probably right.

And you will love this. He claimed that costs could be dramatically reduced (maybe 20%) if doctors and hospitals stopped ordering unnecessary tests. These words from the same weasel that refuses to cap the outrageous settlements from lawsuits that force doctors and hospitals to practice defensive medicine.

Does anyone believe that a government insurance company, run by the same bureaucrats controlling Medicare and Medicaid, would be more cost-effective? Those with a cursory knowledge of government efficiency would be inclined to double over in laughter at the suggestion.

Dodd, who directly shared and profited from the shenanigans that toppled the housing industry, understands fraud. As a participant, he has first hand knowledge of insider corruption, which makes him an expert in the field. Thus, his words should not be ignored.

Of course, using the same criteria, it would be a waste of talent if Bernard Madoff isn’t offered the chairmanship of the SEC. Madoff was the master of ponzi schemes. The difference: Madoff confined his greed to mostly milking fat cats, whereas, Dodd has his sights set on duping every American into signing up for second class healthcare.

Dodd reluctantly admitted that about 20% of the cost of private healthcare premiums is used to subsidize the uninsured and the government underpayment of services. Federal bureaucrats in Medicare and Medicaid set the rates they will pay medical practitioners for services rendered.

Their tables of payments are based on the government’s “budget,” and its power to bludgeon the medical profession into submission, rather than the realistic cost of services. The rates paid by the privately insured keep the hospitals and emergency centers open. It’s a hidden tax.

Dodd’s scheme is fairly simple. The premiums set by Dodd’s government insurance company will be substantially lower than those offered by private insurers. Consumers and businesses will sign up for the government plan to save money.

This will drive the private insurers out of business, as they won’t be able to compete with the US Treasury. Within a few years the government will control healthcare. Without the inflated premiums of America’s productive workers and companies underwriting the actual costs for medical services, the government bureaucrats will ration healthcare.

It’s Dodd’s refrain to this Ponzi scheme that brings doublespeak to a new level of hypocrisy. He keeps reassuring Americans that they will continue to be able to select the doctor and hospital of their choice.

He neglects to mention that the quality of healthcare will rapidly decline, many hospitals will be forced to close and the incentive to be a doctor will be eliminated.

Here’s a healthcare solution! Try Senator Dodd for medical malpractice.

The Ultimate Sacrifice

Vice President Joe Biden is positioned to be a heroic American patriot, as he sits in the catbird seat.

He is a decent fellow with a knack for creating facts. It would be difficult to construe his speaking gaffs as malicious. He just seems inclined to manufacture a little evidence when he is unfamiliar with the subject.

It’s reasonable to conclude that he doesn’t want to appear ignorant. If trying to “save face” was a criminal act about 99.99% of the planet’s human species would have felony records.

He is not a liar, but he is cursed by the compulsion to tell the truth. Granted, in national politics this isn’t a prized attribute. Speaker Pelosi personifies the typical politician’s relationship with the truth. When caught in a lie she defends the deceit, feigns victim status and then ignores the subject.

That Mr. Obama doesn’t appreciate his Vice President’s propensity for candor is not a revelation. Joe has spent a lot of time behind the woodshed being scolded for voicing his opinions and his observations. And it’s obvious that these rebukes are chaffing their relationship.

On May 27, 2009, when the wind toppled a teleprompter as Biden prepared to speak at the Air Force Academy graduation, his ad lib, “What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?” was return fire.

Biden corroborated the obvious. Obama is incapable of delivering a message that isn’t scripted. The whole world knows that Obama can’t think on his feet. But be assured that the president didn’t appreciate his second in command confirming his lack of fluidity with details.

Obama is an arrogant, spiteful and shallow little man. He has no expertise. His path to the Oval Office was strewn with flowers by the mainstream media. They ignored his gaffs and lack of historical perspective.

It deliberately hide his leftwing agenda by ignoring his tenure at ACORN, his relationship with Rev. Wright, domestic terrorists and his ties to Chicago’s corrupt political underworld. They knew what wouldn’t sell, so they painted him as a moderate. It was all lies.

It’s doubtful that Joe Biden signed up to support trillion dollar deficits, the nationalization of the US financial institutions and its auto industry, the displacement of private enterprise, the rabid attacks on Christian beliefs, undermining national security and the disembowelment of the Constitution.

Try to imagine how difficult the task of defending the reckless and malicious attack on America’s institutions is for a person who loves his country. Joe was criticized for saying that paying taxes is patriotic. In truth, it is the duty of every American to support the country. Joe and Middle America only disagree on the amount and how it’s dispersed.

If Joe resigned his vice presidency, the shot would be heard around the world. He would change the course of history by shining a light on Obama’s infamy. The noble deed would inform the nation, its allies and its enemies that he is unwilling to share the treachery and disgrace of the Obama legacy. Granted, it’s difficult to believe a politician would lay down his life for his country.

The Most Frightening Statistic

Setting aside natural disasters, it seems the number of public appearances a president makes is in indirect proportion to the health of the economy and the vitality of his agenda. Rarely a day goes by when the mainstream media doesn’t feature fresh Obama sound bites.

Whether he is trying to convince himself, or the voters, that he is pleased with the progress is anyone’s guess. The economic indicators are wobbling, and few are persuaded that his recent international jaunt bolstered the US’ relationship with its allies, or improved national security.

The banks and insurance companies are scrambling to put distance between themselves and the TARP funds. In fact, there is a growing consensus that the entire program should be mothballed by year’s end. It makes one wonder what private data and forecasts the leaders of the US financial institutions and congress see that is causing this stampede.

Turning over the future of General Motors and Chrysler to the unions and Barney Frank isn’t playing well. It doesn’t take a marketing genius or an economic guru to understand the $50 billion spent on “saving” these companies will only benefit the coffin nail manufacturers and the UAW. He gave them the hammer.

Obama’s latest political gambit, guaranteeing that 600,000 jobs will be created or saved, is resonating like a bell in a sound-proofed closet. Whoever created this non-testable goal was caught in the glare of oncoming lights, manufacturing airbags for an expected head-on crash.

The federal government’s revenues are down 34%, which makes Obama’s deficit spending stand out like a grizzly bear in a petting zoo. While rapidly increasing energy prices sap the meager discretionary income from family budgets, Obama is begging America to wait twenty years for windmills and sunshine to correct this environment-worthy inconvenience.

He is also clamoring for bone crushing taxes and has claimed the right to determine the appropriate income for people employed in the private sector. And to add insult to injury he proclaimed in Cairo that the United States is as much Islamic as it is Judeo-Christian.

He must have received this statistic from the same folks who invented the 150,000 jobs he claims his stimulus plan has already saved; the same experts who provided the projection that unemployment would not exceed 8%. Be assured these are the same advisers that told him to throw Israel under the bus, bless Iran’s nuclear ambitions and grant terrorists captured on the battlefields Miranda Rights.

To his credit, Obama admitted that Medicaid spending is out of control. Of course, he forgot to add that the program guarantees medical care for anyone, and everyone, without insurance or proof of US citizenship, or any incentive to earn either.

His solution for this medical black hole is the nationalization of healthcare. So all he needs is another trillion dollars of debt to solve the problem. Is there a trend here?

Preparing to be the President of the World must eat a lot of time. Maybe it just slipped his mind to sign the executive order extending E-Verify. When the country’s economy is gushing red ink and unemployment is approaching ten percent, what other logical reason exists for providing the 100 million citizens of Mexico an incentive to become illegal aliens?

The polls keep showing Obama’s approval rating is hovering around 60%. This is the most frightening statistic of all.

The Final Review

Dr. George Tiller, America’s renowned late-term abortion specialist, was murdered in church a few weeks ago. It was a sad end to a sad life. It’s difficult to fathom why a person would spend so many grueling years studying medicine and then dedicate his life to killing the unborn.

No one can prove that there is a God, or a heaven and hell. If the existence of a Supreme Being is a religious myth and the final judgment was concocted by the clergy to control the masses and enrich the church leadership, Dr. Tiller’s life and death were merely biological incidents.

An atheist performing abortions could reasonably see himself or herself as performing a task that corrects accidents. In this context the abortion specialist has more in common with a vehicle repair shop than the practice of medicine.

But Dr. Tiller was a practicing Christian. That’s what is interesting. He believed in God. In light of this, he had to morally justify his occupation. It can be logically assumed that he saw himself as a Good Samaritan; as a man willing to help women in distress despite condemnation by the majority of his peers and the public.

The mainstream media reached this conclusion. It portrayed him as an unselfish man nobly protecting the rights of women guaranteed by the Supreme Court in its 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling. But that’s not true. The decision didn’t guarantee women the right to an abortion.

Rather, it gave women the right to seek an abortion from a medical practitioner. The ruling gave doctors the choice to perform, or not perform, abortions without legal consequences. The final decision to abort a life was never granted pregnant women.

It was Dr. Tiller, not the women who entered his clinic seeking an abortion, who made the ultimate decision to end a life.

The only choices Tiller’s clients made were to request his services and grant him permission to perform the surgery. They were willing accomplices and share the responsibility, but he alone had the power to facilitate the final solution.

The media branded his murderer as a terrorist. That case can be made, if Dr. Tiller was murdered to discourage other physicians from performing abortions. It’s equally possible that in the murderer’s twisted and deranged mind, he thought the death of Dr. Tiller would save the lives of thousands of unborn children.

The definition of terrorism in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion.”
Of course, that pretty much defines the day-to-day routine of a doctor specializing in abortion.

Describing the social stigmas, personal hardships and financial sacrifice entailed in child-raising, could easily terrify an expectant, un-wed woman into having an abortion. That’s the systematic use of terror as a means of coercion.

If there is a God and a final reckoning, Dr. Tiller and his murderer will get a final review. So here is a question to ponder.

Would an all merciful and wise God be more willing to forgive a man who deliberately killed hundreds of babies capable of surviving outside their mother’s womb, or a demented man tormented by the slaughter of these innocents?

Lucky for Dr. Tiller, God will make this decision rather than a jury of his peers.

Now Treason

Most people have experienced a flashlight failure at a critical juncture during a repair or while following a path to a safe location. There’s a natural inclination to hurry as the beam fades. That’s when mistakes are made; when we are likely to trip and fall.

Although everyone knows that banging the flashlight against a hard surface doesn’t prolong the battery life, it offers an immediate hopeful remedy. And it releases frustration.

This need for catharsis when under pressure is the reason Obama was elected. With the help of a biased media, he convinced 52% of the voters that he could create light by simply reversing President Bush’s policies.

The media persuaded the voters that Obama epitomized a new age of enlightenment. They touted his vision of world peace, and claimed he transcended politics. As it turned out, his hope and change rhetoric was just banalities that artfully concealed his mistrust and ignorance of business and America’s respect for earned success.

The words of his handlers displayed on a teleprompter kept him on message. And the campaign message was simple. He offered to share the remaining light equally. This appealed to Americans who were being fed a steady diet of survival economics and doom and gloom forecasts.

The voters saw a guy more likeable than John McCain and gave his empty resume the benefit of the doubt, knowing America’s resourcefulness would find a better light source, regardless of the election outcome.

It never crossed their minds that Obama couldn’t comprehend the simple fact that America’s prosperity was built on its ingenuity, and that personal initiative, innovation, risk taking and the will to succeed were foreign to his thinking and experiences.

The lights are going out in America. The engines of commerce and security are fluttering. Even in the dimming light, it’s apparent that Mr. Obama doesn’t know how to unleash and motivate the private sector.

He thinks that the spirit upon which the nation was built belongs in a government harness. That’s like putting the winner of the Kentucky Derby behind a plow. Of course, Obama probably believes that thoroughbreds should share their fame and fortune with the plow horses.

This ignorant, little man is using his gifted oratory to undermine the source of America’s strength, while pretending the temporary flare emitted by burning the Constitution is the guiding light he promised the nation.

Obama is not evil, but he seems motivated by the desire to see the nation fail. In truth, like his wife, he is not proud of what the nation has accomplished because he never contributed to its success. He owes his presidency to artificial standards, reverse discrimination and the mounting ignorance of the voters.

The depth of his loathing is personified by his administration’s release of secret documents detailing where its nuclear arsenal is hidden. By any definition that is an act of treason. Evidently his economic treachery and his Hate America tours aren’t satisfying his desire to bury the nation.

A Peek at the Price Tag

It seems that Mr. Obama’s campaign promise to only confiscate the income of the wealthy hit a mathematical roadblock. Class warfare got Obama elected, but it doesn’t pay the bills.

Reality is seeping into the White House’s surreal economic projections. Who would have guessed that annual trillion dollar deficits are not sustainable? But don’t kid yourself. Mr. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Barney and company knew monstrous tax increases were required to support the transition from capitalism to European styled socialism.

Of course, these utopian miscreants had hoped the reckoning would be delayed until after the 2010 congressional elections. This would have given them time to complete the reorganization before their supporters realized that their incomes were on the Treasury’s short list of available donors.

It seems that Obama’s timetable was based on the assumption that the government could temporarily suspend the laws of economics with unbridled spending. This would have extended the introduction of a Cap and Trade energy tax and a 10% national sales tax (VAT) beyond the election.

But nationalizing banks and the auto industry was capital intensive. Without huge infusions of funds, the integrity of the US monetary system will continue to deteriorate, along with the value of the dollar. And Geithner’s ponzi scheme of buying the US debt with freshly printed money didn’t fool the international investors.

The 52% of voters who trusted Obama’s promise of a free lunch didn’t realize their incomes would be on the menu. They are now looking down the barrel of the largest income redistribution scheme in the history of mankind.

Setting aside the segment of Obama supporters who have never contributed a penny to the government, nor have any plans for doing so, there sits about 40 million Democrats and Independents who are about to get a remedial lesson in arithmetic and political reality.

These are the well intentioned, fiscally illiterate, trusting fools who voted for change and wanted the bragging rights for electing a product raised on affirmative action. They got what they voted for, and they are about to take the beating of their lives.

Obama is driving the country down the only path with which he is familiar. He is turning affirmative action into a government prerequisite.

Of course, affirmative action is nothing more than government sponsored economic and political discrimination against the productive segment of society. In Middle America this group is commonly called working taxpayers.

The average family in America earns about $50,000. In addition to their current income, Social Security and Medicare contributions, excise and capital gains taxes, state and local sales, excise, property and income taxes, Obama and friends attempted to squeeze another $3000 from their net incomes for energy usage (Cap and Trade).

After those nasty conservatives pointed out that Cap and Trade was a tax concealed in environmental clothing, the proposal pretty much fizzled, but Waxman and Markey are still pushing it. Undaunted, Obama and friends are now floating a Value-Added Tax (VAT).

Its implementation would reduce the buying power of the average family at least 10% (about $5000). A VAT will guarantee decades of the same double digit unemployment, second rate healthcare and the flat-lined economies enjoyed by the prosperity-adverse Europeans.

Get prepared! Obama’s policies are fermenting a taxpayer revolt unlike anything America has experienced since the American Revolution. It’s going to get ugly.