17 June 2009 - Granite Grok

June 17, 2009

It is the traditional American culture that makes them want to emulate us

Obama and the Progressives are all about the Collective – we’re all in it together, only the group can solve the problem, we have to rely on us all.  To some degree, it is right, but when enforced or coerced, no – it is not the right answer.  It is "rugged individualism", the yearning to …

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NH Democrats propose “fun tax”

Well, that’s not what they’re calling it, but it’s what they might as well call a tax that basically seeks a cut of anything that ordinary people might consider "fun." From James Pindell’s NH Political Report: State House abuzz over ‘entertainment tax’ concept CONCORD — Lobbyists and budget writers are abuzz over a last minute idea …

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The Healthcare debate

We do NOT have a free market in healthcare in this country – with Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, and the "Healthy Kids" initiatives (yeah, here in NH, the pols want to spend more $$ that they don’t have so that "kids" up to age 26 can get in on this), government already controls a lot …

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Hmm, another way to look at it

With the advent of Obama’s bursting onto the national scene and becoming President, Saul Alinksky’s "Rules for Radicals" has gotten much play.  In every move, it seems, Obama is playing out those rules in almost every speech Side bar: is it just me?  I didn’t know one could rent that many straw men in such …

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Recovery from the disaster in Concord IS possible, but it depends on good people getting active.

  Disaster in Concord Guest post by Karen Testerman NH’s General Court is proposing to tax anything that is moving or breathing.  However, you the taxpayer know their focus is misdirected.  The whole of the current administration is looking at the symptoms, what they term, "a lack of revenue." However, the current economic disaster with …

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Notable Quote – C. S. Lewis

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.  We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. – CS Lewis (H/T: John)