Another year has come and gone, so it’s time once again to examine our ridiculous elected representatives, that we might never forget just why it is we fight to contain the metastatic growth of human governance. It’s time once again to remember the truth of Lord Acton’s words, “power corrupts”. It’s time once again for the Dirty Politician Derby!
These are the filthy pigs who, as Bastiat wrote, “… during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are tendencies that lead downward to degradation.” This is our political class, the self-serving treasonous trash who prove time and again the necessity for limited government. This is our would-be ruling class. As we slog towards another election, it should be with a skeptical and sarcastic eye that we look upon any walking campaign ad who comes bearing gifts, promises, and shiny new programs.
Mayor Gary Becker (D-Racine, WI) – He’s a paederast, charged with five child-sex felonies after being arrested by the FBI at a mall trying to meet with a “14 year old girl” he had met on the internet. The child was in actuality a big burly G-Man, which Becker had probably better get used to, because he gets to spend the next 3 years in prison keeping big burly men warm at night.
Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) – Caught accepting more than $400,000 in bribes and seeking millions more in exchange for brokering business deals in Africa. Agents found $90,000 in this dumb ass’s freezer. Found guilty of 11 counts of corruption, he received the longest sentence ever given to a congressman for bribery, 13 years. FBI footage of Jefferson taking the bribe is available on the internet, but I have to say, it’s not nearly as titillating as last year’s footage of Senator Diane Wilkerson doing the exact same thing.
One of his convicted co-conspirators was his brother, Mose Jefferson. I feel it necessary to state that I am not this man.
Mayor Larry Langford (D-Birmingham, AL) – Guilty on 60 counts including bribery, money laundering, criminal conspiracy, and mail and wire fraud. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined more than $119,000 by a rather lenient federal judge in Tuscaloosa. He is still proudly listed among Mayor Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal (let’s be honest – they mean all) Guns” coalition, because as we all know, power-hungry politicians absolutely hate empowered citizens.
The entire state of New Jersey – Since 2002 the FBI and IRS have conducted a sweeping investigation into political corruption in New Jersey. Over the course of Operation Bid Rig more than 60 public officials have been indicted. In July of 2009, a sting operation resulted in the arrest of 44 people in both Jersey and the Big Apple, including 29 public servants and political operatives and 5 orthodox rabbis. It seems nothing is sacred in the garden state. The crimes centered around corruption and international money-laundering, but included black market trafficking of human body parts… such as kidneys… from humans!
Rather than describe each piece of trash individually, I will just list some of the most notable arrests: Mayor Peter Cammarano III (D-Hoboken); Mayor Dennis Elwell (D-Secaucus); Mayor Anthony R. Suarez (D-Ridgefield); Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini (D- Jersey City) claiming after her court appearance that she hadn’t violated the taxpayer’s trust (and thereby proving how far expectations have fallen); Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith (D-NJ); Assemblyman Daniel M. Van Pelt (R-NJ); Jersey City Councilman Philip J. Kenny; Jersey City Housing Authority Commissioner Edward Cheatam; Former Jersey City Housing Authority Commissioner and Chairwoman Lori Serrano. Dishonorable Mention: Former Senator Joseph Doria (D-Bayonne, NJ) – Forced to step down from his position as New Jersey Commissioner of Human Affairs over his alleged involvement in this debacle. No arrest has been made, yet. Maybe next year, Senator!
State Senator John Cowdery (R-O District, Alaska) – will be joining last years derby participant Vic Kohring in the Corrupt Bastards Caucus over the Alaska political corruption probe involving the VECO Corporation. After a joint investigation by the IRS and the FBI, VECO executives pled guilty to federal charges of extortion, bribery, and conspiracy to impede the IRS (okay, that last one ain’t so bad!). The corruption culminated in the bribing of top Alaskan officials to vote in favor of an oil tax law favored by VECO. Then they got caught. I love America!
Federal District Judge Samuel B. Kent (Galveston, TX) – Got off easy on one count of obstruction of justice in order to avoid an indictment on six federal counts of abusive sexual contact and aggravated sexual abuse, in cases involving non-consensual sexual contact. This scumbag was only sentenced to 2 years, 11 months, but I’m sure he’ll get out early.
Mayor Sheila Dixon (D-Baltimore) - Convicted of misdemeanor embezzlement for stealing gift cards donated to her office intended for distribution to needy Baltimore families. As an added “screw you” to us taxpayers, she will be allowed to retain her $83,000 per year pension. We, on the other hand, will continue to go to work every day to pay our bills. My self respect would never allow me to trade places with Sheila.
State Representative Rod Jetton (R, MO) – This Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives was charged with assault after a bout of sadomasochistic sex with an advocate for the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network. Talk about poor choice of victim! After allegedly drugging her wine, hitting her on the head repeatedly, and choking her into unconsciousness, his only defense was that she never said the agreed upon safe word. “She never said ‘green balloons’.” That’s because she was unconscious, you twisted piece of garbage.
Nevada Senator John Ensign (R-NV) - Resigned his position as Chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee after admitting he had an affair with Cynthia Hampton, the wife of a close friend. In 1998 Senator Ensign had called for President Dirty Bill Clinton (D) to resign after admitting to an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Irony!
Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC) - Traveled all the way to Argentina on tax dollars to have an extra-marital affair. He tried to claim that he was “walking the Appalachian Trail”. That’ll be my new slang term for “leaving my family and traveling to South America to betray my marital vows with a sexy commodity broker”. By the way, this turd also called for Dirty Bills impeachment, back in the day. Irony2!
Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R-CA) - Resigned after the married “champion of family values” was caught on video bragging about affairs with two female lobbyists. Yet another case of “idiot politician doesn’t know what a microphone does”. He said of one of his nasty ladies, "I'm getting into spanking her." What a champ!
There you have it, folks, another year of political filth. Keep it in mind the next time a politician touts their new vision for America. Remind them that seeing visions ain’t their damn job.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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Friday, January 15, 2010
A Quick Lesson on Presidential Vote Buying
President Obama scored some huge Karma points with the nation’s largest union bosses on Thursday when he agreed to exempt union employees from the massive taxes soon to be imposed on private insurance plans as part of a desperate effort to fund his newest entitlement program, the government health care takeover. Mob bosses (excuse me) I mean union leaders from the AFL-CIO, SEIU, Change To Win, and various other groups representing teachers, government workers, electricians, and so on, were ecstatic to learn that they would not have to pay the whopping 40% excise tax soon to be imposed on private insurance plans worth $8,900/year for individuals or $24,000/year for families.
So where is the lesson to all would-be Presidential candidates? Obama, or more likely Rahm Emmanuel, came up with a genius scheme to continue massive union support for Democrats in future elections: This tax exemption, worth about 60 billion dollars, is designed to expire January 1st, 2018. In other words, if the unions want to keep this sweetheart deal going, they had better come out in force for the 2016 Democrat presidential candidate who will be presumably picking up where Obama left off.
Tens of millions of votes bought for 60 billion stolen dollars. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is corruption at its finest.
So where is the lesson to all would-be Presidential candidates? Obama, or more likely Rahm Emmanuel, came up with a genius scheme to continue massive union support for Democrats in future elections: This tax exemption, worth about 60 billion dollars, is designed to expire January 1st, 2018. In other words, if the unions want to keep this sweetheart deal going, they had better come out in force for the 2016 Democrat presidential candidate who will be presumably picking up where Obama left off.
Tens of millions of votes bought for 60 billion stolen dollars. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is corruption at its finest.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Napolitano’s Never Ending Bungles: 2009 Domestic Terrorism Report
Janet Napolitano, upon her unfortunate promotion in 2009, wasted no time in using her ill-gotten position to smear conservatives and veterans and suck up to her superiors with the release of the now infamous “DHS Rightwing Extremism Report”, which I had a few things to say about. To say that the course of 2009 has disproven her little smear fest would be putting it mildly, but just in case anyone is still in doubt, I present to you, in chronological order, The Sovereign Slacker's 2009 Domestic Terrorism Report!
May 20 – New York City: Foiled Muslim plot to blow up 2 Bronx synagogues and shoot down military airplanes flying out of an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York. A typical case of Islamofascists targeting innocent Jews and Americans. That’s about as far from Rightwing as it gets.
May 25 – New York City: An improvised explosive device was detonated outside of a New York City Starbucks, which thankfully injured no one. Eventually, a 17 year old punk-ass admitted to the crime, claiming he was copying the movie “Fight Club”, “Because, you know, man, like, those corporations are like, evil, man, except that I don’t believe in good and evil, man, because that would undermine my ignorant leftist moral relativism!”
May 31 – Wichita, Kansas: Abortionist Dr. George Tiller was murdered by schizophrenic abortion activist Scott Roeder. This time, one of the psychos involved actually was a conservative, but this case may as well serve as the exception which proves the rule. The psycho in question succumbed to his disgusting hate and murdered one of only 3 third-term abortion doctors in the country. He fought murder with murder, and will be so damned, most likely to spend eternity side-by-side with his victim.
June 1 – Little Rock, Arkansas: Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American Muslim, opened fire on a U.S. military recruiting office, killing Private William Long and Wounding private Quinton Ezeagwula. Yet another Islamofascist scumbag.
June 10 – Washington, D.C.: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting. Racist anti-Semite James Wenneker von Brunn, holocaust denier and neo-Nazi, stormed into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and murdered Security officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, a hero who took the bullets intended for many others. Remember, children, Nazi stands for national socialist. Now, I know that conservative means many different things in different countries and at different points in history, but in 2009 America, conservative means the absolute opposite of socialist. This piece of trash was wrongfully branded by some ignorant media types as a conservative, based on the antiquated notion that white-supremacy equals conservatism, but the facts tell the truth of the matter. In his self published trash, “Kill the Best Gentiles”, after all the baloney about Jews and their creation of a false Jesus conspiracy, he goes on to say that socialism “emanates not from Reason alone but from the ETHOS OF THE WEST. It expresses the instinctive and Intuitive feelings UNIQUE to the Aryan Nation”, continuing on to say that “all wars and revolutions are financed by JEW CAPITALISTS.” He believed that Socialism was the birthright of the Aryan West. Yep, you heard me. This one was a Leftist, and remember, it is the Left who overwhelmingly wish to deny the people of Israel their rightful homeland, siding instead with the anti-Jewish Palestinians who would rather die than see a Jew live near their 3rd holiest site, built on the ruins of the 1st holiest site of the Jews (because the Jews were there first, see). Von Brunn died in prison on the 6th of this month, and is now burning in Hell. Yay!
August 25 - Denver, Colorado: DNC local headquarters smashed. This event was immediately blamed on foes of Obamacare by the State Democratic Chairwoman, who was following the Saul Alinsky/Rahm Emanuel rule, “Never let a good tragedy go to waste”. She was, of course, wrong and stupid. It was later revealed that this criminal act was in fact committed by one of the DNC’s own: Maurice Schwenkler, active DNC member, paid SEIU activist, and wacky transgendered anarchist (Irony alert: Anarchy literally means “without ruler”, but this little turd is an active supporter of leftist statist ideology. Point and laugh at the goofy little fool, everyone!), who goes by the silly pseudonym “Ariel Attack”. Was this an act of national terror? No. I just thought it was funny.
September 4 – Seattle, Washington: ELF terrorists cut down AM radio towers belonging to KRKO Seattle, using a stolen excavator. They claimed that radio waves are dangerous to dear mother earth. This is why Leftists shouldn’t be science teachers.
September 15 – New York City: Najibullah Zazi, Afghani Islamofascist and Al Qaeda member, is arrested while attempting to blow up a car laden with explosives in New York City. He was convicted of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, but is somehow still alive, and probably enjoying better conditions in prison than he ever saw back home in his crappy native garbage country.
September 24 - Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a Jordanian arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist bombing of Dallas Fountain Place. He fancied himself a part of a sleeper cell, but apparently this genius didn’t realize that he was the only member of the group who was not actually a federal agent. This is why Good will always win, because Evil is dumb.
November 5 – Fort Hood, Texas: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, another Islamofascist nutbag (are you detecting a pattern?), opened fire on his fellow American troops, killing 14 and wounding 30. Born in America but descending from Palestinians, he was on record as saying that non-believers would be sent to hell, decapitated, set on fire, and have burning oil poured down their throats, then set back on fire, and somehow decapitated again, followed by a round of nasty name calling. Then, a cup of coffee and some biscuits. One of the 14 killed, by the way, was the unborn child of Francheska Velez, and as such is not included in most death tolls. Most media outlets indicate only 13 deaths because they are either ignorant or morally depraved. There were 14 innocents killed that day. The only reason this scumbag is alive today is that military bases are “gun free zones” (I’m dead serious!) and as such he was able to carry out his attack with impunity until military police arrived to subdue him. This massacre bears a striking resemblance to all of those tragic school shootings in which the “gun free zone” prevented law-abiding citizens such as teachers and other adults from defending themselves. How hard is it to understand that criminals don’t obey such useless and socially destructive laws?
December 25 – The Christmas underpants bomber: I can’t remember his name, and who really cares anyway? Let’s all just point and laugh. This privileged little Islamofascist fart expressed his hatred of the free world by attempting to kill 300 innocents but instead succeeded in merely blowing off his own balls and giving us all a good chuckle. With enemies like this, who needs friends? My gut tells me that this little blip proves that there is indeed a God, and He prefers Christmas over Ramadan.
Well, there you have it, 2009’s acts of domestic United States terrorism. Not quite the Rightwing-Palooza that Napolitano had hoped for. Somebody ought to inform the socialist hacks at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Called the wrong play on that one, didn’t you, Janet? It seems to me that either the Director of Homeland Security needs a new crystal ball, or else America needs a new Director of Homeland Security. Or, better yet, none at all.
The underpants bomber is a fitting conclusion to this year in domestic terrorism, and a fitting tribute to Napolitano, Pelosi, and all of their Statist thugs. True to form, after first inflating her ego by stealing credit for the subduing of Nutless Underpants Boy (“The system worked!”), then recanting and groveling her grudging admission of failure, Napolitano wasted no time in sounding the call for yet more power and funding to be given to her big fancy government agency- and this is the true insight into a politician’s selfish desires: After abusing her position to demonize half the nation and score brownie points with her political party, and after a year has passed in which her ineptness has been made completely apparent, she still has the nerve to openly call for the increased empowerment of both herself and the bloated State from which she sucks her un-earned prosperity. And that, above all, is the biggest lesson in the terrorist chaos of 2009: No matter who they are, whether they be tree hugging flea scratching granola eating eco terrorists, or wined and dined members of our elected royalty, humans everywhere – including the ones with whom we’ve foolishly entrusted the care of our nations – can always be relied upon to serve themselves first, at our expense. The great and pathetic failure Napolitano wasted no time in her continuing scrabble for vain State empowerment. We must stop looking up to our elected leaders, and start looking down upon them. This has always been a part of our great founding principles, ideals which should be studied and held up in pride.
Whether you lean politically to the right or left, or up or down or forwards or backwards, terrorism hurts all of us, especially when its ultimate goal is achieved, the goal of political tyranny. It is our own selfish politicians who further that goal whenever they use a tragedy to push their own political agenda. The phrase “never let a good tragedy go to waste” is often credited to the current White House Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, a true genius of public manipulation (and that's with only 9 fingers!), and you can be sure that 2010 will bring more of this and everything else we got in 2009: more vile maggot terrorists taking out their pathetic angst on all the innocents around them, and more vile vulture politicians wasting not a single tragedy in their never ending quest for more power. For myself, I’ll continue to pray for the miracle and dream of the day when I am blessed with the privilege of placing a pre-emptive .44 caliber hole in the head of anyone who would seek to terrorize free people like us. I will also continue to fight tooth and nail for the day that we re-discover the values of individual liberty and limited government, values which once made America great. That day may never come, but it still makes me smile.
May 20 – New York City: Foiled Muslim plot to blow up 2 Bronx synagogues and shoot down military airplanes flying out of an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York. A typical case of Islamofascists targeting innocent Jews and Americans. That’s about as far from Rightwing as it gets.
May 25 – New York City: An improvised explosive device was detonated outside of a New York City Starbucks, which thankfully injured no one. Eventually, a 17 year old punk-ass admitted to the crime, claiming he was copying the movie “Fight Club”, “Because, you know, man, like, those corporations are like, evil, man, except that I don’t believe in good and evil, man, because that would undermine my ignorant leftist moral relativism!”
May 31 – Wichita, Kansas: Abortionist Dr. George Tiller was murdered by schizophrenic abortion activist Scott Roeder. This time, one of the psychos involved actually was a conservative, but this case may as well serve as the exception which proves the rule. The psycho in question succumbed to his disgusting hate and murdered one of only 3 third-term abortion doctors in the country. He fought murder with murder, and will be so damned, most likely to spend eternity side-by-side with his victim.
June 1 – Little Rock, Arkansas: Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American Muslim, opened fire on a U.S. military recruiting office, killing Private William Long and Wounding private Quinton Ezeagwula. Yet another Islamofascist scumbag.
June 10 – Washington, D.C.: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting. Racist anti-Semite James Wenneker von Brunn, holocaust denier and neo-Nazi, stormed into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and murdered Security officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, a hero who took the bullets intended for many others. Remember, children, Nazi stands for national socialist. Now, I know that conservative means many different things in different countries and at different points in history, but in 2009 America, conservative means the absolute opposite of socialist. This piece of trash was wrongfully branded by some ignorant media types as a conservative, based on the antiquated notion that white-supremacy equals conservatism, but the facts tell the truth of the matter. In his self published trash, “Kill the Best Gentiles”, after all the baloney about Jews and their creation of a false Jesus conspiracy, he goes on to say that socialism “emanates not from Reason alone but from the ETHOS OF THE WEST. It expresses the instinctive and Intuitive feelings UNIQUE to the Aryan Nation”, continuing on to say that “all wars and revolutions are financed by JEW CAPITALISTS.” He believed that Socialism was the birthright of the Aryan West. Yep, you heard me. This one was a Leftist, and remember, it is the Left who overwhelmingly wish to deny the people of Israel their rightful homeland, siding instead with the anti-Jewish Palestinians who would rather die than see a Jew live near their 3rd holiest site, built on the ruins of the 1st holiest site of the Jews (because the Jews were there first, see). Von Brunn died in prison on the 6th of this month, and is now burning in Hell. Yay!
August 25 - Denver, Colorado: DNC local headquarters smashed. This event was immediately blamed on foes of Obamacare by the State Democratic Chairwoman, who was following the Saul Alinsky/Rahm Emanuel rule, “Never let a good tragedy go to waste”. She was, of course, wrong and stupid. It was later revealed that this criminal act was in fact committed by one of the DNC’s own: Maurice Schwenkler, active DNC member, paid SEIU activist, and wacky transgendered anarchist (Irony alert: Anarchy literally means “without ruler”, but this little turd is an active supporter of leftist statist ideology. Point and laugh at the goofy little fool, everyone!), who goes by the silly pseudonym “Ariel Attack”. Was this an act of national terror? No. I just thought it was funny.
September 4 – Seattle, Washington: ELF terrorists cut down AM radio towers belonging to KRKO Seattle, using a stolen excavator. They claimed that radio waves are dangerous to dear mother earth. This is why Leftists shouldn’t be science teachers.
September 15 – New York City: Najibullah Zazi, Afghani Islamofascist and Al Qaeda member, is arrested while attempting to blow up a car laden with explosives in New York City. He was convicted of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, but is somehow still alive, and probably enjoying better conditions in prison than he ever saw back home in his crappy native garbage country.
September 24 - Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a Jordanian arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist bombing of Dallas Fountain Place. He fancied himself a part of a sleeper cell, but apparently this genius didn’t realize that he was the only member of the group who was not actually a federal agent. This is why Good will always win, because Evil is dumb.
November 5 – Fort Hood, Texas: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, another Islamofascist nutbag (are you detecting a pattern?), opened fire on his fellow American troops, killing 14 and wounding 30. Born in America but descending from Palestinians, he was on record as saying that non-believers would be sent to hell, decapitated, set on fire, and have burning oil poured down their throats, then set back on fire, and somehow decapitated again, followed by a round of nasty name calling. Then, a cup of coffee and some biscuits. One of the 14 killed, by the way, was the unborn child of Francheska Velez, and as such is not included in most death tolls. Most media outlets indicate only 13 deaths because they are either ignorant or morally depraved. There were 14 innocents killed that day. The only reason this scumbag is alive today is that military bases are “gun free zones” (I’m dead serious!) and as such he was able to carry out his attack with impunity until military police arrived to subdue him. This massacre bears a striking resemblance to all of those tragic school shootings in which the “gun free zone” prevented law-abiding citizens such as teachers and other adults from defending themselves. How hard is it to understand that criminals don’t obey such useless and socially destructive laws?
December 25 – The Christmas underpants bomber: I can’t remember his name, and who really cares anyway? Let’s all just point and laugh. This privileged little Islamofascist fart expressed his hatred of the free world by attempting to kill 300 innocents but instead succeeded in merely blowing off his own balls and giving us all a good chuckle. With enemies like this, who needs friends? My gut tells me that this little blip proves that there is indeed a God, and He prefers Christmas over Ramadan.
Well, there you have it, 2009’s acts of domestic United States terrorism. Not quite the Rightwing-Palooza that Napolitano had hoped for. Somebody ought to inform the socialist hacks at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Called the wrong play on that one, didn’t you, Janet? It seems to me that either the Director of Homeland Security needs a new crystal ball, or else America needs a new Director of Homeland Security. Or, better yet, none at all.
The underpants bomber is a fitting conclusion to this year in domestic terrorism, and a fitting tribute to Napolitano, Pelosi, and all of their Statist thugs. True to form, after first inflating her ego by stealing credit for the subduing of Nutless Underpants Boy (“The system worked!”), then recanting and groveling her grudging admission of failure, Napolitano wasted no time in sounding the call for yet more power and funding to be given to her big fancy government agency- and this is the true insight into a politician’s selfish desires: After abusing her position to demonize half the nation and score brownie points with her political party, and after a year has passed in which her ineptness has been made completely apparent, she still has the nerve to openly call for the increased empowerment of both herself and the bloated State from which she sucks her un-earned prosperity. And that, above all, is the biggest lesson in the terrorist chaos of 2009: No matter who they are, whether they be tree hugging flea scratching granola eating eco terrorists, or wined and dined members of our elected royalty, humans everywhere – including the ones with whom we’ve foolishly entrusted the care of our nations – can always be relied upon to serve themselves first, at our expense. The great and pathetic failure Napolitano wasted no time in her continuing scrabble for vain State empowerment. We must stop looking up to our elected leaders, and start looking down upon them. This has always been a part of our great founding principles, ideals which should be studied and held up in pride.
Whether you lean politically to the right or left, or up or down or forwards or backwards, terrorism hurts all of us, especially when its ultimate goal is achieved, the goal of political tyranny. It is our own selfish politicians who further that goal whenever they use a tragedy to push their own political agenda. The phrase “never let a good tragedy go to waste” is often credited to the current White House Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, a true genius of public manipulation (and that's with only 9 fingers!), and you can be sure that 2010 will bring more of this and everything else we got in 2009: more vile maggot terrorists taking out their pathetic angst on all the innocents around them, and more vile vulture politicians wasting not a single tragedy in their never ending quest for more power. For myself, I’ll continue to pray for the miracle and dream of the day when I am blessed with the privilege of placing a pre-emptive .44 caliber hole in the head of anyone who would seek to terrorize free people like us. I will also continue to fight tooth and nail for the day that we re-discover the values of individual liberty and limited government, values which once made America great. That day may never come, but it still makes me smile.
Tune in next week for Dirty Politician Derby 2009!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
An Open Letter To “Progressives”
Does any of this sound familiar:
“Corporations are evil, man. They, like, feed off the greed of capitalism, dude. Capitalism is a system of greed, and it’s, like, totally a symptom of the materialism of western culture”?
Of course it does. It’s the motto of the Left. It’s practically the official slogan of the “grassroots” arm of the Democrat National Committee. Not the Democrats in office, mind you. They are actually all very wealthy. No, this is the slogan of all of those, uh, youthful voters who elected them. And it is to those young “progressives” (whatever that means) that I address this letter.
So, young “progressives” (?) what has your beloved party done lately? Well, how about the Wall Street Bailouts, for obvious starters. The supposed heroes of the proletariat have used public money to protect various corporations in the finance and auto industries (among others) from the consequences of their own “greed”. You could call it Corporate Welfare, if you want. The President is hard at work protecting the CEOs and the bad corporations from bankruptcy. Not to worry, Lefties, those evil corporations you so hate will still be here to sell you their evil products after you get a job and go on your wild shopping spree, and all thanks to the good folks in Congress and the White House whom you very excitedly helped to elect.
And how about that western culture of consumption which you so despise? Normally, as we all know, economic collapse following a period of wild and greedy spending results in a deflation of wealth and consumption. The heady days of materialism are dealt the harsh blow of responsibility, and that supposed western value so hated by the left deflates, to make way for more responsible savings and introspection. These periods are known as “corrections”, they are ultimately healthy for the market, and they serve as a sobering reminder to all of those "greedy capitalist pigs" that there is more to life than money.
But not to fear, Lefties! If the promises of Pelosi, Obama, and all of the other darlings of your movement pan out, we won’t have to suffer a reduction of consumption. They have it in mind to use trillions of federal dollars to finance “Stimulus Packages”, which will serve to artificially prop up consumption until the economy can get back on its merry old way, and further protect those mean capitalist businessmen from the effects of their greed. They intend to MAINTAIN the pre-crash consumption levels. Remember when George “worst president ever” Bush told us all to “go shopping”? Hurray for consumption!
Let’s just move beyond the fact that not one of these policies makes any real economic sense. The fact remains that these are indeed the policies of your elected leftist officials. So why, I have to ask, are you, the youthful and energetic supporters of “progressive” (seriously, what does that even mean?) politics, still supporting these people? Who do you think you are actually serving? Are you totally blind to the incredible rift between you and your elected elite?
Are you absolutely sure that you haven’t been duped into becoming a part of what Lenin might have called the “useful idiots”?
“Corporations are evil, man. They, like, feed off the greed of capitalism, dude. Capitalism is a system of greed, and it’s, like, totally a symptom of the materialism of western culture”?
Of course it does. It’s the motto of the Left. It’s practically the official slogan of the “grassroots” arm of the Democrat National Committee. Not the Democrats in office, mind you. They are actually all very wealthy. No, this is the slogan of all of those, uh, youthful voters who elected them. And it is to those young “progressives” (whatever that means) that I address this letter.
So, young “progressives” (?) what has your beloved party done lately? Well, how about the Wall Street Bailouts, for obvious starters. The supposed heroes of the proletariat have used public money to protect various corporations in the finance and auto industries (among others) from the consequences of their own “greed”. You could call it Corporate Welfare, if you want. The President is hard at work protecting the CEOs and the bad corporations from bankruptcy. Not to worry, Lefties, those evil corporations you so hate will still be here to sell you their evil products after you get a job and go on your wild shopping spree, and all thanks to the good folks in Congress and the White House whom you very excitedly helped to elect.
And how about that western culture of consumption which you so despise? Normally, as we all know, economic collapse following a period of wild and greedy spending results in a deflation of wealth and consumption. The heady days of materialism are dealt the harsh blow of responsibility, and that supposed western value so hated by the left deflates, to make way for more responsible savings and introspection. These periods are known as “corrections”, they are ultimately healthy for the market, and they serve as a sobering reminder to all of those "greedy capitalist pigs" that there is more to life than money.
But not to fear, Lefties! If the promises of Pelosi, Obama, and all of the other darlings of your movement pan out, we won’t have to suffer a reduction of consumption. They have it in mind to use trillions of federal dollars to finance “Stimulus Packages”, which will serve to artificially prop up consumption until the economy can get back on its merry old way, and further protect those mean capitalist businessmen from the effects of their greed. They intend to MAINTAIN the pre-crash consumption levels. Remember when George “worst president ever” Bush told us all to “go shopping”? Hurray for consumption!
Let’s just move beyond the fact that not one of these policies makes any real economic sense. The fact remains that these are indeed the policies of your elected leftist officials. So why, I have to ask, are you, the youthful and energetic supporters of “progressive” (seriously, what does that even mean?) politics, still supporting these people? Who do you think you are actually serving? Are you totally blind to the incredible rift between you and your elected elite?
Are you absolutely sure that you haven’t been duped into becoming a part of what Lenin might have called the “useful idiots”?
HopeyChangey!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Federal Stimulus Spending Is A Crock
Currently, America is in a period of economic depression stemming from a collapsed housing bubble resulting from an attempt by the Federal Reserve to boost economic growth in the wake of 9/11 (and the “.com bubble”) by drastically reducing its lending rate to flood the market with cheap investment finance. The resultant real estate boom and accompanying economic surge were based more on the oversupply of capital than the presence of any real demand necessary to sustain such growth, and as a result, the economy crashed.
In the aftermath of the crash, the government again stepped in to limit the negative market correction. This time the administration utilized a series of unprecedented “stimulus spending packages” wherein an attempt was made to jump start the economy with a massive infusion of government spending. Let’s just skip past the fact that now, on the cusp of 2010, we can see in hindsight that these spending measures have utterly failed, and that the U.S. economy is still struggling to get back up despite the rude whipping being administered by the administrations, past and present. A simple, albeit boring, economics lesson could have warned us that it would go this badly.
Our miserable politicians have now decided to repeat their own mistakes. Echoing the stupidity of George W. Bush’s idiotic defense of 2008’s massive spending debacle (“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system”), Temporary President Barack Obama recently presaged another round of wasteful “stimulus” spending in 2010, in a speech given at the Brookings Institute on December 8th:
“One of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility. Even as we have had to spend our way out of this recession in the near term, we have begun to make the hard choices necessary to get our country on a more stable fiscal footing in the long run, . . . At this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe . . .”
Unfortunately for Mr. Obama, and for the rest of us, these statements do not reflect an accurate understanding of economics, and the president knows is. He very candidly said as much in a little publicized recent interview with socialist economist Robert Kuttner, during which he appealed to sympathetic economists to help spin his policies and make them sound somewhat credible:
“. . . we're going to need help from all of you who oftentimes are more credible than politicians in delivering that message. Because we want to leverage whatever public dollars are spent, and we are under no illusion that somehow the federal government can spend its way out of this recession.”
These obviously self-contradictory remarks should really come as no surprise. Self-contradiction is a near universal side effect of any attempt to twist reality into a more serviceable selfish falsehood. Self-contradiction is one of the most telling symptoms of a liar. Consistency, sweet consistency, can only reliably come from a solid foundation based on truth and logic, a foundation which is all too often missing in politicians, which is why the progress of human social evolution and the advancement of liberty and equality has always been to further protect the individual from the fickle selfish throes of government. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, leaps in this aspect of human development was the framing of the American Constitution. The founders believed in the natural inalienable rights of the individual and rooted this country in a firm foundation of individual liberty and limited government. Our Constitution plainly states this philosophy to be constant and unchanging. James Madison explained the eternal need for this philosophy in the 51st Federalist Paper:
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
Barack Obama does not believe in this philosophy. From his book, The Audacity of Hope:
“Implicit in [the Constitution’s] structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course . . .”
This convenient disregard for absolute, universal truths is what allows him to plunge ahead, foundationless, without respect for our fundamental principles of limited government, guided only by his own selfish and relative morality. This is why he contradicts himself.
More to the topic, however, the president is wrong to attempt economic stimulus through government expenditure. The trouble with this process is that in order to obtain its money, the government must first either take it directly from the citizenry in the form of taxes, or issue bonds to investors in order to borrow the amount it intends to spend. The first option has the effect of reducing the amount of liquid capitol within the economy, which depresses the GDP and leads to increased unemployment. The second option increases the national debt, which can only be paid off through increased tax receipts, spending cuts, or the arbitrary printing of “fiat” money. Increased tax receipts stem from either economic growth or an increase in tax rates. Unfortunately for us, a historical analysis of 20th century American economics reveals that increased government spending usually results in a net loss to the GDP. History does not bode well for this approach, yet it is one of the shoestrings to which the current administration is asking us to cling. So, since we are considering massive increases in government spending, increased taxation and fiat money are the most likely outcomes. Fiat money is the money arbitrarily printed and issued by the federal treasury which increases the quantity of money units within an economy without increasing the intrinsic worth of that economy. The net result is a decrease in the actual value of an individual unit of money, in this case the dollar, and a resultant increase in the cost of consumer goods, a market quality tracked by the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. An increase in the CPI is also referred to as inflation, a process which decreases the productivity of a market by effectively shifting economic wealth from the owners of the money (private business and individuals) to the borrower of the money (Federal Reserve, during deficit spending).
This is not to say that absolutely no one benefits from government spending. The entire economy of Washington, D.C. is made up of its beneficiaries - politicians, lobbyists, pollsters, and anyone else who cheered for the winning team last election and now awaits their tax-funded reward. They suckle, like pigs, at the tired teats of the taxpayers. I know. I’ve seen it. It’s gross.
So what does all of this mean for you and me, average U.S. citizens? Basically, any increase in government spending contributes to a decrease in the overall economic aspect of our quality of life. Federal stimulus spending is a total crock of shit. It’s that freaking simple.
In the aftermath of the crash, the government again stepped in to limit the negative market correction. This time the administration utilized a series of unprecedented “stimulus spending packages” wherein an attempt was made to jump start the economy with a massive infusion of government spending. Let’s just skip past the fact that now, on the cusp of 2010, we can see in hindsight that these spending measures have utterly failed, and that the U.S. economy is still struggling to get back up despite the rude whipping being administered by the administrations, past and present. A simple, albeit boring, economics lesson could have warned us that it would go this badly.
Our miserable politicians have now decided to repeat their own mistakes. Echoing the stupidity of George W. Bush’s idiotic defense of 2008’s massive spending debacle (“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system”), Temporary President Barack Obama recently presaged another round of wasteful “stimulus” spending in 2010, in a speech given at the Brookings Institute on December 8th:
“One of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility. Even as we have had to spend our way out of this recession in the near term, we have begun to make the hard choices necessary to get our country on a more stable fiscal footing in the long run, . . . At this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe . . .”
Unfortunately for Mr. Obama, and for the rest of us, these statements do not reflect an accurate understanding of economics, and the president knows is. He very candidly said as much in a little publicized recent interview with socialist economist Robert Kuttner, during which he appealed to sympathetic economists to help spin his policies and make them sound somewhat credible:
“. . . we're going to need help from all of you who oftentimes are more credible than politicians in delivering that message. Because we want to leverage whatever public dollars are spent, and we are under no illusion that somehow the federal government can spend its way out of this recession.”
These obviously self-contradictory remarks should really come as no surprise. Self-contradiction is a near universal side effect of any attempt to twist reality into a more serviceable selfish falsehood. Self-contradiction is one of the most telling symptoms of a liar. Consistency, sweet consistency, can only reliably come from a solid foundation based on truth and logic, a foundation which is all too often missing in politicians, which is why the progress of human social evolution and the advancement of liberty and equality has always been to further protect the individual from the fickle selfish throes of government. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, leaps in this aspect of human development was the framing of the American Constitution. The founders believed in the natural inalienable rights of the individual and rooted this country in a firm foundation of individual liberty and limited government. Our Constitution plainly states this philosophy to be constant and unchanging. James Madison explained the eternal need for this philosophy in the 51st Federalist Paper:
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
Barack Obama does not believe in this philosophy. From his book, The Audacity of Hope:
“Implicit in [the Constitution’s] structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course . . .”
This convenient disregard for absolute, universal truths is what allows him to plunge ahead, foundationless, without respect for our fundamental principles of limited government, guided only by his own selfish and relative morality. This is why he contradicts himself.
More to the topic, however, the president is wrong to attempt economic stimulus through government expenditure. The trouble with this process is that in order to obtain its money, the government must first either take it directly from the citizenry in the form of taxes, or issue bonds to investors in order to borrow the amount it intends to spend. The first option has the effect of reducing the amount of liquid capitol within the economy, which depresses the GDP and leads to increased unemployment. The second option increases the national debt, which can only be paid off through increased tax receipts, spending cuts, or the arbitrary printing of “fiat” money. Increased tax receipts stem from either economic growth or an increase in tax rates. Unfortunately for us, a historical analysis of 20th century American economics reveals that increased government spending usually results in a net loss to the GDP. History does not bode well for this approach, yet it is one of the shoestrings to which the current administration is asking us to cling. So, since we are considering massive increases in government spending, increased taxation and fiat money are the most likely outcomes. Fiat money is the money arbitrarily printed and issued by the federal treasury which increases the quantity of money units within an economy without increasing the intrinsic worth of that economy. The net result is a decrease in the actual value of an individual unit of money, in this case the dollar, and a resultant increase in the cost of consumer goods, a market quality tracked by the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. An increase in the CPI is also referred to as inflation, a process which decreases the productivity of a market by effectively shifting economic wealth from the owners of the money (private business and individuals) to the borrower of the money (Federal Reserve, during deficit spending).
This is not to say that absolutely no one benefits from government spending. The entire economy of Washington, D.C. is made up of its beneficiaries - politicians, lobbyists, pollsters, and anyone else who cheered for the winning team last election and now awaits their tax-funded reward. They suckle, like pigs, at the tired teats of the taxpayers. I know. I’ve seen it. It’s gross.
So what does all of this mean for you and me, average U.S. citizens? Basically, any increase in government spending contributes to a decrease in the overall economic aspect of our quality of life. Federal stimulus spending is a total crock of shit. It’s that freaking simple.
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