16 March 2010 - Granite Grok

March 16, 2010

Is Pelosi REALLY going to listen to Carol Shea-Porter?

You have GOT to be kidding….from Roll Call: Pelosi Calls All Female Democratic Members Into MeetingMarch 16, 2010, 7:02 p.m. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is asking all female Democratic Members to attend a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning but isn’t saying what the meeting is about. Pelosi’s office sent an e-mail out Tuesday evening requesting …

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A comparison of Community Builders (TEA Party) vs Community Organizers (Obama’s Alinsky)

I have been trying to do more reading than usual – not on current events but more on underlying philosophies so as to (hopefully) lead to better blogging. One of those posts I ran across had this: …The message from Tea Partiers is that Alinsky has not succeeded any better than his more illustrious revolutionary …

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The Road To Serfdom

I’ve just started to read F.A. Hayek’s "The Road to Serfdom" – and I happen to stumble over this  quote from Pelosi and Marx on ‘Freedom’ over at the American Thinker: Friedrich Hayek wrote about this subtle shift in the word "freedom" over sixty years ago. He argued that as socialists began coming under fire …

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Not mine to give….Part 2

Over at NRO was this "heads up" for more politicians looking for a bailout:  Gov. Paterson said yesterday the feds have to help bail out cash-starved New York to help plug the more than $9 billion budget gap facing the state. "We are struggling for survival to close this budget deficit," Paterson said during a …

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Revolving Door

The Revolving door is the millwork of connected Political insiders in Washington.  These are the people that keep tax dollars flowing into the metastasizing tumor of big government, and through the veins of the groups that use the revolving door to feed their own wealth and influence.    It is a fiscally incestuous relationship between power …

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Notable Quote – Jeffrey Kuhner

This is not because government-run health care is so effective or beloved; rather, it fosters a debilitating spirit of dependency that is fatal to a self-governing people. In short, it kills the self-reliance and individualism critical to a free-market democracy. For Mr. Obama, that is precisely the point. Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik …

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A truer cost of Government Education?

From the CATO Institute: "Just as an example, the CATO study found that, while Washington DC public schools claim to spend about $17,000/student, the actual price tag is closer to $28,000. Just to put this in perspective, this is a higher price than the private Potomac School, Georgetown Preparatory School, Stone Ridge School and Georgetown …

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Young Children have no problem in stealing toys away from others

Beware of Greeks bearing Politicians promising Gifts… We’ve seen it with our own kiddies "Johnny – give that back to Stevie!" as the four year old takes away a toy that has caught his eye that another kid was contentedly play with.  It happens at homes, in play situations, and in day care centers.  After …

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