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In addition to checking the verbiage of a new bill, always check the “Fiscal Note” part of the analysis – how much is this going to cost tax payers. I long ago posted what the Medicaid Expansion was eventually going to cost us as Obamacare is wound down. And now, the NH GOP elected officials in the House and Senate are basically legislating a close form of Obamacare’s Individual Mandate for this Paid Family Leave Act – you WILL be mandated to participate and your wages will be docked if you don’t know how to opt-out (and the bureaucratic nonsense that will be involved) – HB628 is going to do the same thing. Three things:

1. It is being presented as something that is NEEDED to attract younger workers and families
2. It is completely being marketed as self-paying
3. It is being LIED about in that the State of NH is saying that there are no Free Market alternatives or offerings

My rebuttal:

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Well, Jennifer Abbot decided to respond to my first response Letter to her’s as several friends alerted me to her newest screed (seriously: “God drivel“? No, not on the actual merits and questions I brought up but an attack on me personally – and tries to turn herself into a victim because I “belittled” her. Heh! I’ve once again put her Letter after the jump and the first part of my second response here. I may even directly fisk her letter to “amplify” things a bit as the headline for her Letter to the Editor went right to the heart of what Progressives want to do to those that oppose their policies:

HOPEFULLY, GILFORD VOTERS WILL REMOVE MR. MURPHY FROM THEIR BUDCOM IN 2020

Yep – silence you knave! How dare you refuse to accept our enlightened outlook on your petty little lives (heh!). Well, let see how this will turn out:

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Medicaid costs, said then-Secretary Michael Leavitt, were projected to grow so fast that within 10 years they would “crowd out virtually every other category of spending.” State spending on higher education, infrastructure and safety, he predicted, would all get squeezed.

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Like I said – fair game.

Welcome to Alinsky. And from what I’ve seen in over a decade, once riled and put upon, the Right is much more ingenious in being a Resistance. I look around at the signs of today and there is little creativity when compared to some of the TEA Party signs.

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Letter: Senators condescending in debate on gun amendment

Sometimes for a conservative blogger, the Concord Monitor can’t be beat for finding fodder. The above was from yesterday concerning the Amendment that would allow local School Board make decisions on our Right to keep and bear arms (Article 2-a in the NH Constitution).

What Democrat NH State Senator Hennessey wanted to do is start to unravel the idea that we are a Dillon’s Rule state – the State of NH has primacy and the Towns and Cities in NH are mere political subdivisions. While this can be viewed as a bit disconcerting here in the State whose motto is “Live Free or Die” at that macro level, it would allow The State (at the local level) to monkey with universal Rights simply because of an extremist ideological hatred of firearms wielded by law-abiding citizens to where we wouldn’t really ever know, based on crossing a town/city line, if we were in compliance with the law or magically transformed into jailbait with a turn of one’s tires.

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I am so behind on these kinds of “I comment here” and “commented there” type posts, so it’s now time to get a’marching.

The question above was asked over at the Concord Monitor. I’ll give her props for outing herself that she’s terrified of these totally inanimate object, and turn on her for demanding the my Right be cancelled to make her feel “safe”. That’s not my responsibility and if she truly thought about where that Right comes from and plays connect the dots, I might think different of her but I don’t – as an adult, she should have realized this much, much sooner. The failure to do so tells us of her arrested development in believing that she has a Right to outsource the basis of her feelings onto others. Now, at the risk of being accused of having no empathy – it’s not my job nor anyone else’s job to make her safe (unless they are drawing a paycheck directly from her to be her personal bodyguard). What she said that caught my eye (entire Op-Ed after the jump). My response:

“…For the good of all, we each give up a little..”.

Yes, Article 3 speaks to this “[Society, its Organization and Purposes.] When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to ensure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void.”

Notice it comes after Article 2-a, so it is subordinate to it: “[Art.] 2-a. [The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.”

At least you make it clear that you are scared of guns. You also have hit on why most of us rebel against calls to turn them in: “Don’t restrict my freedom to have one. In fact, isn’t freedom to pursue things an American tradition? Our right? To be free to pursue our rights, or our desires, without interference – read regulation.”

 

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In hearing and reading the stories of how school administration and teachers were supportive of what turned out to be lots of, not “school safety” protests, but of “turn it up to 11” political rallies by middle and high school kids who seemingly know jack about our country’s political and philosophical history, the idea that a Right is not granted by Government, and aided, abetted, organized, and financed by the Left’s civilian disarmament battalions, the image above fits.

Really, after the snarling, F-bomb, cursing interviews all around the themes that THEY are in charge (and adults are stupid – gee, where’d they get THAT from??), I’m believing that charter schools, private schools, religious schools, and homeschooling rates are going to soar as parents determined “not MY little bundle of joy and angst.”

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This has got to be about one of the stupidest ideas I’ve heard yet – akin to “we have to destroy the village to save it” (or Bush’s “”I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system”). Seriously, a bucket of rocks to throw against an active shooter?  Really, who thinks of such idiocy?  Oh yeah, teachers:

Pa. district arms teachers with rocks in case of school shooter

A rural school district in Pennsylvania is arming teachers and students with buckets of rocks as a last resort should an armed intruder burst in, the superintendent said.

Every classroom in the district about 90 miles northwest of Philadelphia has a 5-gallon bucket of river stones, said Blue Mountain School District Superintendent David Helsel. “We always strive to find new ways to keep our students safe,” Helsel told The Associated Press in a telephone interview, adding that the rocks are one small part of the district’s overall security plan. Throwing rocks is more effective than just crawling under desks and waiting, and it gives students and teachers a chance to defend themselves, he said. The district has about 2,700 students at three elementary schools, a middle school and a high school.

Yeah, like a group of first graders are going to bean someone with a pistol.

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That’s what swamp creatures do.  And this time, Trump jumped in.  From the Union Leader:

The bill abandons GOP claims of fiscal discipline in a stark reversal of the promises many Republicans ran on in capturing control of the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014 as they railed against what they described as a profligate President Barack Obama.

House GOP leaders tossed aside their own rules and past complaints about Democrats to rush the legislation through the House ahead of a Friday night government shutdown deadline. Lawmakers of both parties seethed, saying they had scant time to read the mammoth bill, which was released less than 17 hours before they voted.

If the “lawmakers of both parties seethed”, then why did they vote yes?  Sorry, I lost my mind for a moment.  Yes, I was part of that 

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I just found this online concerning the results of the BudComm races in our little hamlet – Forewarned is Forearmed?

I find it interesting that the Progressive folks who have managed to take one-third of the seats in our little town’s Budget Committee now believe that they control the purse strings and will be dictating to the other 8 members how we’re all going to be voting to greatly increase spending (and taxes), particularly on the school side of the budget.

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