Entitlements

70 Years of American Progress

January 21, 2013

That about covers it.  

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Data Point – Why Work? Welfare pays better

December 12, 2012

Yep. As the chart clearly illustrates, total welfare spending in the U.S. (if converted into cash payments) equals approximately “$168 per day for every household in poverty,” higher than the $137 median income per-day.  From the senator’s office:

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Federal Government: Reduced to being an Entitlement Processor?

September 4, 2012

From the Wall Street Journal: “In 2010 alone, government at all levels oversaw a transfer of over $2.2 trillion in money, goods and services. The burden of these entitlements came to slightly more than $7,200 for every person in America. Scaled against a notional family of four, the average entitlements burden for that year alone [ Read more ]

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Data Point – What goes in is certainly coming out.

May 14, 2012

Silly me – and I thought taxes were need to actually pay for functions of actual Government (like salaries, office equipment, armies…) (H/T: Business Insider)

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Building the American Underclass

February 17, 2012

Theodore Dalrymple (pen name), has produced some of the most compelling work I’ve read about the welfare state and how it creates and sustains the underclass.  If you are still staring out across the crumbling wreckage of the fruited plain, wondering how we got here and where we may be headed, Dalrymple has some very [ Read more ]

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Watch This Video Now

February 1, 2012

The Vote Pump.  Watch it.

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Teri Norelli Cries Foul on the Budget: Insert Yawn Here

August 2, 2011

“If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” ~Milton Friedman, Economist Democratic leader Terri Norelli takes pen to the Union Leader this morning to decry the Republican budget. Norelli does a masterful work in her use of descriptors and categorizations demagoguing the Republicans [ Read more ]

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Executive Council’s Defunding of Planned Parenthood Is Sinister

August 1, 2011

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” ~Margaret Sanger, founder, Planned Parenthood Kate Lancor, former Moultonborough welfare director decries the Executive council’s recent vote to defund Planned Parenthood. In her Union Leader Opposite Editorial entitled, Women need the services Planned Parenthood provides, Ms. Lancor [ Read more ]

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Tin-Eared Bureaucrats

July 30, 2011

“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” ~Laurence J. Peter Barbara Seebart, New Hampshire State Refugee Coordinator didn’t appear to grasp Mayor Ted Gatsas’ assertions that the City of Manchester is not prepared to absorb another 300 refugees. The Board of Mayor and Alderman voted in [ Read more ]

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Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work!

July 28, 2011

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” ~Edmund Burke And when older people are yelling, “Don’t cut my Social Security!” Do you think they know about this community in Tacoma Washington? SO here you have it….Obama pimping the old people to keep [ Read more ]

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Two Congressmen And A Free Throw

February 28, 2011

The US House just finished it’s work on HR1, cleaning up after democrats who in 2010 abrogated yet another constitutional obligation when they refused to write the budget they wanted.

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Computer: hitting it on the head

February 18, 2011

Computers – talking about the stuff that politicians refuse to do! (H/T: Hot Air)

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Democrats, Trains And HB 218

February 13, 2011

The Union Leader has a great editorial in this mornings Sunday News titles “Free Trains.” It is great for several reasons the least of which is that it mirrors concerns I have been expressing for years. No matter who pays to build them, someone has to pay to keep them. That would be New Hampshire Taxpayers. Democrats are aghast that the NH House would dissolve the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority, because hey it doesn’t cost anything.

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Progressive Flatulence

December 21, 2010

So maybe the 700,000 taxpayer dollars given to UNH to advance the study of “organic farming” was not just a left wing exercise in global warming alarmist advocacy. Maybe, just maybe, it was not meant to study cow farts.

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[Updated] Why You Should Contact Senator Mitch McConnell

November 15, 2010

If all they wanted to do is ensure that the federal dollars we send to DC provided some equal value to the state that pays them they would act diligently to ensure that the Federal government did not take more than it needed for its few and limited responsibilities. (No one will ever accuse a New Hampshire Democrat of that.)

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Public Service Is About Trust

October 25, 2010

I’d just assume have a root canal without pain killer as suffer through an editorial by Carol Shea-Porter, but sometimes you have to take one for the team. So with the dedication of Roland I immersed myself in the last rights editorial of the soon to be former congresswoman from New Hampshire’s first district, which is ironically titled, ‘Public Service is about trust.’

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DC Puppet?

October 25, 2010

A vote for John Lynch is a vote for Obamacare. John Lynch has not demonstrated any interest in protecting the state of New Hampshire from federal meddling of any kind.  He takes their money, strings attached, to hide his bad budgeting and big spending.  He’s accepted federal education money even though it was written with [ Read more ]

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Destroying The Future Of America

October 10, 2010

Democrats continue to insist that they created jobs.  To do this they extracted trillions from our economic future in an effort to create jobs that did not yet exist–that perhaps were  not needed yet.  Looking at similar exercises, cash for clunkers–which moved car sales forward a few months but has since resulted in a collapse [ Read more ]

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It’s time to put an end to Lynch’s Idea Of Leadership

October 5, 2010

Is prostituting the fate of your local economy to outsiders your idea of good leadership? The democrats will tell you it provides the state with revenue, but they will never admit that it is actually a broad based energy tax just waiting to be pilfered for more wasteful spending, or that the long term economic impact will decrease growth, cost jobs, and drive business away through artificially and unpredictably higher energy costs.

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Left’s Got Nothing, So Let’s Take Out The Trash

October 5, 2010

Just remember that this it’s not about being against the government. It is about wresting power from the central government. It is about being against one that is run entirely from Washington DC. It is about restoring states rights and local control, and the dismantling of unconstitutional federal oversight in the process.

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Housing Bubble Comes Home To Roost

September 22, 2010

I’m not sure why there is still any debate about who is responsible for the housing bubble and the ensuing crisis–which includes the recession that followed and the stagnation we are in now.  The Democrats new bill of rights, going all the way back to FDR, includes the right to own a home.  Since that [ Read more ]

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By The Numbers

September 9, 2010

Paul Hodes is trying to restyle himself as a fiscal conservative.  As a Washington outsider.  But Washington outsiders don’t get huge campaign donations from the left wings senatorial elite Like Dan Inoyue, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez. Paul Hodes does. Fiscal conservatives don’t manage to come in 45th out of 435 in 2010 [ Read more ]

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Stark Differences

August 17, 2010

  (H/T Moe Lane RedState)

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What Was The Point Of This?

August 2, 2010

If you and your employer “Part ways,” you are entitled to file for unemployment compensation assuming the departure was not the product of gross misconduct.  That means you didn’t do something that forced the employer to fire you.  Sexual misconduct, irrational behavior, negligence, abuse, and theft are all possible examples, many subject to the possibility [ Read more ]

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A.D.D.D (Revisited)

July 27, 2010

  [[Given the recent noise from progressives about unemployment extensions (not just the payments but the joblessness) I thought I'd revisit a post I wrote back in March, the last time we went through this---because to be honest, it still applies.]]     A.D.D.D   There’s this liberal talking point, it’s spin actually, that anyone [ Read more ]

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