Washington’s New Financial’s Fig Leaf

A well functioning financial system is essential to the lives of customers, investors and businesses alike. We have just seen the dangers of a system that is broken and dysfunctional. A key part of that system is the regulatory framework which is supposed to oversee the smooth functioning of the financial markets. Clearly that has … Read more

No Gambling

In the smoldering ruin of SB 489–this years gambling bill, even after a massive campaign by Millennium gaming and its big-money FixItNow NH campaign quarter-backed by their Public relations goo-roo Richard Killion, (whom I suspect is this guy), we get comments like this, from this morning’s Union Leader.

“What’s clear is that today’s vote runs contrary to the will of the people, who, overwhelmingly support expanded gaming and see it as the only acceptable new revenue option,” he said. “The people do not want higher taxes.”

The people do not want higher taxes.  But nothing else he says makes any sense unless he means the will of "the minority of" people who overwhelmingly support expanded gaming, and see it as the only acceptable option."  Isn’t language fun?

Richard really should have been around New England long enough to know that the one thing you can count on in New Hampshire is for voters to contact their state reps and let them know how they feel about an issue.  So from square one this statement is at the very least disingenuous.  Before we even get to square two we know that that is exactly what the people did, and the product of that opinion (how the House voted) is clearly represented in the roll call.  Consider the following.

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Your Renewable Future?

PSNH, New Hampshire’s largest supplier of electricitiy, is looking to adjust rates to compensate for lost revenue.  They lost the revenue because of decreased usage.  Usage has decreased because of the economy, but that presents us with a real world truth.  The implications of the liberal environmental movement do not match the facts. Enviro-weenies want you to reduce … Read more

Have We Got Hodes By The Sach(s)

Now that the government has conveniently brought charges against Goldman Sachs–just in time for the fiscal reform debate (cough-cough)–is Paul Hodes willing to take one for the team to add some much needed legitimacy to this theater of the absurd? Hodes takes a lot of money from the insurance/investment industrial complex (here, and here ) … Read more

Can You Name This NH Rep?

    In the world as it really is, there are people in positions of power–even power as divided as the New Hampshire State Legislature–who feel entitled to special treatment.  These ‘perks’ come in all forms.  The one pictured above is the ability or ‘right’ to park in a no parking zone without fear of … Read more

Hodes = Wrong

A little less than a year ago, Paul Hodes voted to kill funding for abstinence education in the 2010 Budget.  (I wrote about it here.) He hailed it as a necessary cost cutting measure even though 75% of all HHS money for teen sex programs already went to promoting condom and contraception use.  By his … Read more

NOM de Guerre

If Ray is really all that worried about out of state money [Lynch-Lied Ads from the national organization for Marriage (NOM)] he can start with his own candidates.  Carol Shea-Porter gets a huge chunk of her cash from congressional PACs, national unions, and special interests like Emily’s List, whose only “interest” in her is her … Read more

Mean Peace

The communications director of Green Peace India, Gene Hashmi, vented his spleen recently.  The problem?  Pressuring politicians is not working to his satisfaction. The failure at the global climate conference at  “Hope-n-change-in” has made it clear as Vodka that “the global climate movement now must do a course correction.”  Telling the truth would be a … Read more

Public Service?

One of the pleasures of blogging is reminding people of what blatant hypocrats liberals are.  For example.  As we approach November neither Paul Hodes nor Carol Shea Porter should be expected to spend any time politicking on the issue on warrantless wire taps and violations of personal privacy committed by the executive branch.  And the reasons … Read more

Lynch Lied

The NHDP has it’s panties in a bunch about an ad campaign claiming governor Lynch is a liar on the issue of same sex marriage.  This is to be expected from a party that sold spendocrat Jeff Goley as a small government anti-tax champion. The analysis of this question is relatively simple.  John Lynch said he … Read more

The Tea Party: A Heartfelt Hymn of American Redemption

The Tea Party: A Heartfelt Hymn of American Redemption by Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter  Defending the Tea Party to its opponents is like explaining Bob Dylan to his critics: their ears don’t hear what your heart understands. For a year now, Tea Partiers have peaceably assembled and petitioned government for the redress of grievances; and, … Read more

Light A Candle

Here in New Hampshire we’ve been at what Erik Erikson at Red State calls Tea Party 2.0 since day one.  Not a week goes by when the message from any one of the dozens of groups around the state who support the anti-tax rallies that define the Tea Party Movement is to get involved.  Learn … Read more

Gud Lernnin

I live in Merrimack so I got to vote today.   As I approached the polls there was a small knot of young people holding handmade signs.  I’m always excited to see people who look to young to vote being politically active so I was curious about who or what they are supporting. The signs either … Read more

Merrimack Wants To Vote On Gay Marriage

  By a 65-35 majority the voters of Merrimack would like the opportunity for a statewide vote on the question of gay marriage.   In other voting, the budgets passed-both less than the default, Chris Ortega and Shannon Barnes won the two open School board seats, Dwyer and Flood got elected to the two open town … Read more

The New Hampshire Desperation Party

In an April 10th press release the NHDP bases its budget management prowess on the fact that Norm Major said, "I don’t see any exaggeration in the revenues at this point in time."  Of course they leave out the part where he mentions that…(quoting from the same Union Leader Article) But when he looks two … Read more

If The Racist Shoe Fits

The people who insisted that the TEA Party movement didnot exist, that it would never amount to much, that it was just a flash in the pan movement, that it was just a few disgruntled right wingers, that it was run by the Republican party, that it answered to Rush Limbaugh, and that it was a … Read more

VAT’s All Folks!

The solution to irresponsible spending is always irresponsible taxation.  They go together like Peanut butter and Jelly, Root beer and Ice, like rama lama lama ke ding a de dinga a dong.  And to get them the liberals in New Hampshire do the same thing as the liberals in Washington.  They expand every department—in the … Read more

Rumors Of A Recovery…

As rumors of the recovery continue, consider this.  The same willing media that over emphaszied the failing economy to get democrats elected is the same willing media that is selling a recovery to protect them now that they are in office. One possible upside.  People are less trusting of the media, in a downward arc … Read more

Starving Leeches

In every argument convenient to their agenda, liberals like to whine about ‘sustainable resources.’  They pride themselves on their promise to manage resources for the future.  They brag about their compassion for the environment.  But liberals are the worst resource managers the world has ever seen because they ignore the single most important resource of all, wealth.   Wealth is the resource.  It comes from managing people, equipment and materials to provide something people want or need.  But for Paul Hodes and liberals in general, the goal is to take wealth other people have created and spend it on what Paul Hodes wants people to need, independent of any other reality than the one he and the liberals have imagined. 

In the real world the marketplace is forever finding new ways to create wealth which it then uses to hire more people, buy more equipment, and purchase more materials, to fulfill real world needs.  Those in the free market that fail to manage effectively are consumed by those that do, and the circle of wealth continues, absorbing the people, equipment, products and ideas that work, and discarding those that do not.

Willing participation is a critical part of this process.  It is rewarded based on things like determination, critical thinking, intellectual agility, personal integrity and hard work.  Any American with these traits, regardless of where they started, or where they were educated, can live reasonably well almost anywhere–in any field.   

But Paul Hodes thinks that participation and decision making are best left to ‘experts’ in far away places.  He believes that what happens to you is not your fault; it is merely a product of an unequal society that prevented the government experts from doing for you what they deem you incapable of doing for yourself.  So success and personal behavior are not related.  Failure is rewarded whether it is your own, or foisted upon you by your government.  And the reward is making you more reliant on government, enshrining the failure model in exchange for your vote.  And the only solution to dealing with any failure—be it yours or theirs–is to add more government which you must pay for if you are able

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