Thursday, July 14th, 2011
As the Great Minnesota Shutdown continues, its impact is hitting more and more people. Recently I read how a number of small eateries in down town areas are reducing hours and staff due to a drop in business as a result of state workers being put on furlough.
Now I am ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Paul Ryan has set forth a serious plan to put the Federal Government on a real diet, cutting some $6 trillion from the budget over the next 10 years. This is a great step forward, and means that someone in Washington is actually listening to the People.
Ryan has also predicted ...
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Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Captain's Log, Stardate, oh, wait, that's pajama boy stuff.
Quark's Place was lively. He had a new floor show going on that was attracting a lot of attention. Three old crones gathered around a large cauldron, a fire blazing underneath it, which was causing Odo and Cisco to have fits, but ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
An anonymous author wrote to me the following statement:
"I am sick of people telling me what a great job Obama has done since taking office. Here's a list of his many failures."
1. Seized control of General Motors and forced the ouster of its duly elected CEO.
2. ...
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
What do the numbers 3 and 20 have in common? Okay, that first one is scaled down; the 3 is for $3 TRILLION. The 20 is the number of months Obama has been in office. Put them together and you have the amount that Obama has increased the National Debt. ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
The people of California actually got something right on Tuesday when they resounding voted down the Taxinator's efforts of "budget reform". (Budget reform is Liberal speak for tax increases.) Of the six ballot initiatives, the only one that passed was the one that put the breaks on pay increases for ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Comrade Obama has had a stunning realization. Our current deficit spending can't keep on going.
From Bloomberg:
President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending "unsustainable," warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
"We can't keep on just borrowing from China," ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
It was 9:30 in the morning when I arrived at the State Capitol for the tax-cut rally. I came up early as I wanted to make sure I got a good parking space, as parking near the site of the event would be at a premium as it caught closer ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Obama is flailing about and now asking for ideas on how to fix the economy. From FoxNews:
President Obama on Tuesday accused critics of his $3.6 trillion budget proposal of taking a "just say no" approach to his plan and offering few ideas of their own.
Obama spoke after meeting with ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Timothy Geithner, Obama's man to run the Treasury Department (including the IRS…talk about putting the fox in charge of the hen house) and the "bailout" demonstrates once again that no one in the Obama administration has ever read a science book.
From Reuters :
U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
The headline on FoxNews says it all: Are Obama's Policies Ushering In a New Era of Socialism? Answer: Yes!
With taxpayers shelling out $700 billion to bail out Wall Street and another $787 billion to jolt the sputtering economy, serious questions are being raised about whether all the government intervention is ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Here's a woman with a stimulus plan that is guaranteed to fix the economy. Watch the video and see what she has in mind and what the people she spoke with have to say about it.
Michelle is her name. And her plan is to eliminate the payroll tax for a ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Obama has now made it quite clear that his idea of bipartisanship requires Republicans to capitulate to his Socialist agenda.
From Yahoo.com:
A fired-up Barack Obama ditched his TelePrompter to rally House Democrats and rip Republican opponents of his recovery package Thursday night - at one point openly mocking the GOP for ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Your tax dollars at work, Citicorp style.
Flush with an influx of taxpayer dollars, thanks to the bailout plan Congress approved, CitiCorp has purchased a new Dassault jet aircraft with a $50 million price tag. And it isn't even a U.S. made aircraft. It's French! They're sending OUR tax money to ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
It looks like it is time for a pre-inauguration onslaught. Barack Obama is all set to push for a new high in the national deficit, that amount of money the government is borrowing in order to spend on various programs and stuff. Obama is proposing a staggering amount: 1.2 TRILLION ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Howard Dean Moonbats one out to Left Field with a comment that sounds a lot like One Party Rule is a good thing…just like it is in Communist China, Cuba, North Korea, and a few other countries I can think of.
From Rollcall.com:
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Monday ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
It's a rare day indeed when I agree with the Editorial Board at the Star Tribune, but when it comes to the sales tax referendum that Minnesotans are facing, I am actually in agreement with them.
The Strib is pushing a "No" vote on the referendum that would add a state ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Somebody at the New York Post needs a lesson in the legend of Robin Hood. The recent video clip running around of Barack Obama having a conversation with a guy who said Obama plans to raise his taxes is getting a lot of air play. Part of what Obama said ...
Posted in American Politics, Campaign 08, Taxes | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Voting for Liberals, especially Liberal Democrats, is taxing. Let's face it; Barack Obama and Joe Biden haven't met a tax hike they didn't like. Same with Hillary and most of the other Democrats in Congress, as well as Democrats elected at State and local levels. They love raising taxes. They ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
I received an email concerning how to save the government (or, more accurately, the taxpayers) $5 Million. It was, of course, about this year's election. Here's the email:
A president's pension currently is $191,300 per year.
Assuming the next president lives to age 80. Sen McCain would receive ZERO pension ...
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