2 January 2014 - Granite Grok

January 2, 2014

Global Warming Cancels Wasserman-Schultz Book Signing

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the woman who shares an anti-TEA Party agenda with more than a few Republicans, was supposed to attend a book signing at St. Anselm College today, but Global warming has chosen to dump a foot of snow on Southern and Central New Hampshire today. The event has been cancelled, as has the …

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Rich State, Low Poverty, Ranks High In Health Outcomes….Medicaid Expansion is a Trap.

We are being sold the idea that we need to expand Medicaid in NH.  Why? New Hampshire is historically a very well off state, with the lowest poverty rate in the nation.  We rank in the top five every year for healthiest state while ranking 36th for public health funding.    (Knocks on wooden heads…) That …

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Wind Farm Blues In Groton

“Socialist elitism will not conquer the Granite State by way of the federal government, but with its steady migration of mass-holes, carpet bagging their NIMBY politics, CAVE politicos and BANANA buddies, manipulative zoning, community planning, variances, fees and their homegrown branded definition of ‘Quality of life’…” —LFGC Club President Rick Olson I had not remembered …

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Saddest (and scariest) headline of the week: “School officials lament many NH parents don’t let taxpayers feed their kids for them”

Really? Is it truly the position of Government Employees that NH Parents are WRONG in not having perfect strangers to be forced to feed their kids? Well, the answer is right in the first sentence of the article (mostly)- it is always about the Benjamins: The rates of children who qualify for free or reduced-price …

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Data Point – Global Poverty diminishes. Why?

Arthur Brooks: 80 percent of the world’s worst poverty has been eradicated in less than 40 years. That has never, ever happened before.  So what did that? What accounts for that? United Nations? US foreign aid? The International Monetary Fund? Central planning? No.  It was globalization, free trade, the boom in international entrepreneurship. In short, …

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Sigh, they don’t like us….sob…..or is it just me?

I guess we scare them. Well, I read Susan’s post earlier today and decided to saunter over to Blue Hampshire to read Mike Hoefer’s post – Seeking Editorial Lead (reformatted, emphasis mine): I’ve been an absentee landlord for sometime and do not see that changing in the year ahead. Blue Hampshire’s founding predates Facebook, Twitter, …

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