Angry Santas

It’s that time of year. Every child knows that Santa is watching his or her every move. He’s making a list and checking it twice. He’s going to find out who has been naughty or nice.

This year, there is a new kind of Santa in every city and town across America. These Santas are not watching the children. These Santas are watching our lawmakers in Washington. They remember the unwanted present (Obamacare) that arrived last Christmas Eve and they are determined to do whatever it takes to return it. Continue reading “Angry Santas” →

The Stinking, Dirty, Rotten, Stingy, Evil Rich

President Obama reached a compromise with the Republican Leaders of Congress over extending the Bush tax cuts. Grudgingly, he agreed to include the “evil rich.” Although Obama failed to use that exact term when he made the announcement, it was clear from his tone and his rhetoric that, over the next two years, he intends to play the politics of “envy and greed” to the max.

“I am not willing to let working families across this country become collateral damage for political warfare here in Washington,” Mr. Obama said. When progressives, i.e., liberal Marxists who believe that it is their sacred duty to redistribute wealth in order to achieve fairness or “economic justice,” use the term “working families,” it is clear they are excluding any family with a combined income of more than $250,000 per year. They would have us believe that these people are undeserving, idle parasites, soaking up the wealth of the country at the expense of the rest of society. Continue reading “The Stinking, Dirty, Rotten, Stingy, Evil Rich” →

Cutting the Federal Government down to Size

Everyone has a plan to cut the government down to size, reduce the deficit — and harder, much harder — eliminate the national debt. Here’s mine. It’s simple, short and sweet.

Pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution and hand it off to the states for ratification. Anyone who fails to vote for this amendment is a moron and has no business serving in Congress. These people must be booted out of office, no ifs ands or buts. Individuals and families must live within their means and balance their budgets. Many states operate under balanced budget amendments. The necessary cuts must be made at the federal level until a balanced budget is reached. It’s the very least a citizen should expect of his or her elected representatives. Continue reading “Cutting the Federal Government down to Size” →

Thanksgiving, the Inoculation against Fear and Worry

These are difficult times. The recession is technically over but few Americans are optimistic about the future. It’s little wonder when so many have lost their homes, their jobs. Storefronts are vacant. Our once proud country is mired in debt and individuals and businesses are facing the uncertainty of higher levels of taxation. Where do we go from here?

We go to our knees . . . in thanksgiving. Yes, this is the time to focus on what we have, not what has been lost. Continue reading “Thanksgiving, the Inoculation against Fear and Worry” →

What’s that smell coming from D.C.?

If you are going to clean out a refrigerator, you start with the part that smells. In Washington, it’s pork, not in the frig, but on Capitol Hill. This pork, otherwise known as an “earmark,” is a project that is slipped into a bill by a lawmaker that circumvents the merit-based or competitive process and serves a narrow or special interest.

An infamous one that shows up almost every year is “wood utilization research.” We’re spending $4,841,000 on new ways to use wood (trees) this year. Has anyone heard of paper bags? I’ll give it to you for free and you can save taxpayers $4.8 million. That’s a perfectly good use for wood. However, many cities now are trying to ban paper bags in order to save trees! The irony of it all!

These projects add up. Citizens Against Government Waste has documented 109,952 of them worth $307.8 billion since 1991. Continue reading “What’s that smell coming from D.C.?” →

Republicans, Can We Trust Them?

Republicans have gained control of the House of Representatives. They now have the ability to cut the federal budget down to size and put us on the road to fiscal stability. This is their stated goal.

It doesn’t matter what kind of budget President Obama turns in. In doesn’t matter what the Senate does. Not a dime can be spent unless it is approved by the House of Representatives.

All the Republican-led House of Representatives has to do to control federal spending is put its collective foot down.

Bottom line: There can be no deficit spending next year, unless House Republican’s cave. Continue reading “Republicans, Can We Trust Them?” →

After the 2010 Election: The Follow-Through

Every athlete knows the importance of the follow-through. Once you hit or release a ball, it will not reach its intended target unless the athlete stays engaged until the projectile is well on its way to the desired destination.

If the 2010 election was about cleaning out the entrenched political elites who have run up a staggering national debt and mortgaged our future, then the 2012 election must be about the “follow through.”

Gone are the days when voters can afford to wake up a couple of weeks before an election and, once it’s over, hit the snooze button for another two years. Continue reading “After the 2010 Election: The Follow-Through” →

The 2010 Election: Us versus Them

Along the road of spending, the government either takes over, which is socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is fascism.– Herbert Hoover

Off-year elections are usually yawners. Not this one. Our economic problems have awakened voters and ignited political passions.

In the last two years, the country has taken a hard left turn and is traveling at the speed of light away from the free market, which isn’t perfect but has given us the highest standard of living in the world.

The new destination is socialism, a system that has brought much of western Europe to the brink of economic collapse and thrown Greece and France into chaos.

This election is not about political parties. It is about ideology. Continue reading “The 2010 Election: Us versus Them” →

It’s Official: Congress is a Joke

Last week, comedian Stephen Colbert’s testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration was roundly criticized by the media and politicians of all political stripes as a joke. However, as it turned out, the joke was on Congress itself.

Colbert, a faux right-wing Republican commentator, was brought in by Chairman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) to ridicule her GOP colleagues and offer a little “star-power” to the Democrats’ effort to pass an amnesty bill and get more desperate, illiterate Mexican workers into the country, legally. These workers, who cannot speak English, then would be dependent on the left-wing Spanish language media that, come election time, can be expected to herd them into voting booths to, surprise, surprise, elect more Democrats. Continue reading “It’s Official: Congress is a Joke” →

Bobble Heads vs. Wing Nuts

The bobble heads who rule the two major political parties refer to outsiders as “wing nuts,” which is short for “right-wing nuts.” No bobble head ever views a left-winger as a “nut.” If so, he or she keeps quiet about it. To do otherwise might make one appear “extreme” and the left-wing bobble heads, which dominate the news media, would say or write mean things about them.

Bobble heads are those little plastic dolls that are images of major the political figures. They show up every election year on the dashboards and office desks of the party faithful. Unfortunately, party leaders, behave in much the same way as these miniature characters. With the slightest breeze or movement, the heads of these dolls bob up and down on a spring. They are incapable of nodding right to left as if saying “no.” In fact, the party establishment seems incapable of saying “no” to anything proposed by the party’s top elected official, no matter how unreasonable or harmful an idea may be. Continue reading “Bobble Heads vs. Wing Nuts” →