7 April 2012 - Granite Grok

April 7, 2012

Data Point – Interest payments on slope to exceed DoD budget

Liberals and Progressives have, for years, said that we have to decrease spending on defense and spend it on more important things – don’t think that they meant debt payments.  Sorry, but you guys, in the end, are going to be the ones that screwed your own social programs. (H/T: Weekly Standard)

President Obama’s stewardship of the Federal Government downrated AGAIN.

From Big Government (reformatted here): A small credit ratings agency downgraded the United States’ credit rating for a second time, arguing the country was no closer to solving its runaway debt problem.  In a move that could foreshadow decisions from larger agencies, Egan-Jones downgraded the US to AA from AA+. The company on Thursday cited …

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“Germany set to tax young”

Well, the Blue Social Model of Socialism is its own Ponzi scheme – and when you run out of young people, you run out of other peoples’ money.  From the Sydney Morning Herald (reformatted here): GERMANY is proposing to levy extra taxes on the young to pay for the costs of the country’s growing numbers …

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From James Pindell’s Political Standing

Really? “Is there any truth to the rumor that next weekend Republican National Committeeman Steve Duprey will be challenged on the floor from an opponent from the right flank?” Interesting rumor…

Meet Another State Employee Wasting Taxpayer Time Online

We thought DickNH was trying to set a record for a state employee posting comments at the Concord Monitor on taxpayer time.  He was posting comments and promoting his Democrat union agenda during office hours.  But since our discovery and the ongoing effort to pursue a 91-A Right to Know Request to determine just how …

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Where Maya Angelou intimates that we can be legislated to love each other

Huh? I was looking up a word that was the equivalent of gaggle at Dictionary.com but starting with a “p” (then it popped up in my head: ” radical vision of Obama and his punishing posse of Progressives“) but there was a quote that was in the right sidebar from  Maya Angelo (emphasis mine): Strictly …

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