Big Government

Abuse of Power Scandals Make the Case for Limited Government

May 19, 2013

I’m frequently bewildered when I observe the Big Gov pom-poms shaken, Big Gov banners unfurled, and its flags waved with roaring cheers and applause. I wonder if those doing the somersault splits have actually thought through what they are doing flips over. Have they thought beyond the obvious short term, immediate consequence of more Government [ Read more ]

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Decay Point: Bureaucratic Sclerosis

January 5, 2013

Alas, as a society decays, its parts shrivel and wither in interestingly tragic ways. An exemplar of such decay occurred just the other day. Big Government’s bureaucratic sclerosis hit a Fire Department so hard that it felt it necessary for its, “…22 firefighters and six vehicles…” to remain idle on the shore and watch a [ Read more ]

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Fiscal Cliff Deal? A classic case of the Left embiggining Government

December 31, 2012

Update: Current tax rates would be permanently extended for singles making $400,000 or below, and permanently extended for couples making $450,000 or below For singles, capital gains and dividends of $400,000 or below would be permanently taxed at 15 percent; capital gains and dividends above $400,000 would be permanently taxed at 20 percent For couples, [ Read more ]

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Jobless Christmas: Picture Edition

December 24, 2012

Skip found the verse about a jobless Christmas – Gary Varvel illustrates it beautifully!

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MYTH 3: We have a “revenue” problem

December 14, 2012

You can read Myth’s 1, 2 and 4 here should you care to; my purpose for the moment is to mug and pummel the idea that spending is not the problem and this helps illustrate that. The revenue problem refers to the notion that revenues are too low. Typically, special attention is drawn to the [ Read more ]

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Getting the Royal Finger by Big Gov, Raise Your Hand If You’re Surprised…

December 1, 2012

“Angry New Yorkers say Obama pledge to cut red tape ignored by FEMA” reports Fox News. Looks like FEMA isn’t working again. Raise your hand if you’re surprised. Those that are surprised deserve what they get. Big government can’t work, doesn’t work, can never work, has never worked, so to keep voting for it over [ Read more ]

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So, Dems in Belknap county, that would mean that you will spend a lot, ignore the Constitution, and grow Govt? AGAIN?

October 18, 2012

‘Tis the season of political surveys coming in on the phone.  Today, I think I got five, and a whole bunch of hangups which I take to be auto-dials by such companies looking for folks to call later or that with “predictive dialing”, there wasn’t an agent ready when “it” thought there would be when [ Read more ]

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Mitt Romney and The 57.9%

October 15, 2012

Democrats want to tax you so that they can then engage in state managed, centrally planned, charity.   Conservatives, Libertarians, and some Republicans object to this for more reasons than I can enumerate here but here is one example worth considering… As the coercive power of the state will alone decide who is to have what, [ Read more ]

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Skip, Freedom Is The Symptom, The People The Cause

October 7, 2012

Skip, true. It is about freedom, but there’s more to it than that. I would suggest that state encroachment on individual liberties is a symptom of the problem and not the problem itself.  It’s about the people. It’s about people willing to cede their liberty and freedom to a faceless bureaucrat in exchange for the [ Read more ]

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How about a justification for slavery?

July 17, 2012

Last Friday President Obama gave a speech in Virginia where he said, among other things, “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own….If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that [ Read more ]

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If you wanted America to fail….

April 23, 2012

From FreeMarketAmerica.org, via Instapundit: “If I wanted America to fail…”

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Do You Have The Stones To Outlast the Federal Government?

March 22, 2012

Most Americans would never last this long.  And that is exactly what the tyrannical bureaucracy depends on.  They need you to give up so they can abuse the people and their rights,  unchallenged.  But these folks went the distance and not only won, they embarrassed the EPA.  We need a few million more just like [ Read more ]

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US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D): all too willing to use the fear of the IRS to stifle TEA Party opposition? How Orwellian of her…

February 27, 2012

“…those who cannot be co-opted are isolated and then destroyed.“ I had seen mention of the use of IRS going against TEA Parties (Richmond TEA Party, Ohio Liberty Council, it seems that others are in process) over at The TaxProf’s blog (via Instapundit, much more here at The Daily Caller on what the IRS is [ Read more ]

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Gambling On Our Future

February 13, 2012

A few days ago I wrote this (among other things) about the risk of bringing casinos to New Hampshire… Years of Casino ‘revenue’ in Concord would inevitably create the opportunity for entrenched incumbency and make every race about money, and who can spend it.   The special interest money would favor those who support Casino interests [ Read more ]

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The Church of Obama’s Big Government – kiss my ring!

February 4, 2012

(H/T: Powerline)

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OK, here is my definition of what an “Elite” is

January 25, 2012

I love these meaningless labels you people employ to scare people. “Elite” why not “effete” why not “European minded”? Does an “elite” have lots of money, or is an “elite” just overeducated? Can you be a capitalist and an “elite” or are they mutually exclusive? Do you have to have travelled abroad to be an [ Read more ]

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Four Reasons Why Big Government Is Bad Government

February 8, 2011
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent

October 22, 2010

The big government liberals have favored the notion of guilty until proven innocent, mostly with their opponents, for as long as we can remember.  Most recently it’s been cries of hate and racism without evidence, and more recent still accusations of using foreign money in US elections, again without proof and without parity.  They take [ Read more ]

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Is Carol Coming Out Of The Commie Closet?

October 2, 2010

In Carol Seiu-Porter’s last debate she emphasized her commitment to government as a source for solutions and inferred that people who object to that position are just way out there, you know, extremists.

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Why The Stimulus Had To Fail

June 16, 2010

It’s simple economics.  Government money comes from taxpayers.  The more government spends the more it relies on taxpayers to pay for its spending.  The less money taxpayers have the smaller the economy will be the fewer jobs there are, which means less income, less taxes, more debt.  The stimulus, the huge budget bills, the massive [ Read more ]

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