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Susan, Mike and Father Christian Tudor, and Jeff Chidester continue on with Skip’s questioning (a patient lot, them!):

• Donuts!

• With all the recent “Obamacare “setbacks”, why is he still succeeding with Obamacare?  How?

• Self-reliance vs dependency?

• What is the Democratic Plantation?

• Does the MSM “report” on society, or prides itself on “shaping” or “making it better”?

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Questions!  I had lots of questions that went unanswered – most because they didn’t have the time to be asked:

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I lost all respect, years ago, for Laconia Daily Sun Reporter Michael Kitch when we had a blowout argument that my town was made up of residents and elected officials that were cheapskates.  Certainly, he knew that I truly believed that when I was on the Budget Committee in my hamlet, I tried mightily to act in the vein that “this is not my money” – and spent a lot of time trying to convince others of the same.  If anything, I tried to be more frugal with other peoples’ money, their property tax monies, than I am with my own.  After all, it IS mine – I earned it and I should be able to spend it the way I want to.

Kitch believes otherwise – he could not understand (or stand) the idea that I (and my town, and other political entities) refused to raise the taxes on our residents simply to send that money to towns and cities that were broke.  Broke not because the single industry in town just up and left (and to which I would have some empathy) but because of years and decades of Progressive / Liberal / Democrat rule – the largest example now being Detroit.  As I have written here before, we had a screaming match over the fact that I refused to send money to the leaders of those towns, who have already proved that they are incapable of wisely spending their taxpayers monies.  WHY would I want to send them more and “enable” their bad habits?  His response was that ‘we are all in this together, that there were people still hurting in those cities, that the intent to help was paramount, and it was irrelevant that the political and appointed leaders would just waste that extra money.

Right…

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As if the TEA Party targeting wasn’t enough, NOW we find out that the IRS decided to “pull an Illinois”.  Remember back in 2007 when Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher seriously questioned candidate Obama’s Socialist idea of that wealth redistribution was such a great economic policy (“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”)?  Yeah, what happened right afterwards has been a hallmark of the Obama Administrations minions (either by or sans direct orders) – State of Illinois bureaucrats started to illegally mine their  State’s databases  to dig up dirt on Joe.

Aw, those good old days, those WONDERFUL memories brought to us by “The Chicago Way” devotees – and now refreshed by our friends at the IRS!  Decided to run as a political candidate?  Decided to donate some Big $$ to said candidate(s)?  Your friends at the IRS decided to do a wee bit of digging on your behalf:

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And one would think that in the political center of American politics (no, not the State capitals as it once was supposed to be), Washington, D.C., with all of the patriotic statues and words by politicians (of both sides), this would be a no-brainer, something that happens all the time.  Sadly, just the fact that some intern had to write this and bring up this subject say much about the real climate in DC and the utter divide that that lays between not just the Left and Right, but from the Smart People in government who used to serve those of us “in the hinterlands”.  A perfect example, and result of, the difference between the Coasts and fly-over country in how each views this country and what each holds dear about this place we call home.  Pride of Country used to be taken for granted – now, because of Political Correctness, you could be an outcast at a party for saying just that.  Yet, this has gone viral:

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From The Corner:

“Only lawyers now can argue before Supreme Court.” That was the headline over this article. I’m sure that the new rule makes sense: that you have to be a lawyer, to argue before the Supreme Court. The last time a non-lawyer argued, it was 1978.

Still, doesn’t the professionalization of everything make you slightly uneasy?

Indeed!  Before Government (at any level) starts to touch a new area of Civil Society (before it totally absorbs it a la The Borg), it is Citizens living and interacting in voluntary fashions to, well, live their lives.  Have an interest, an activity you do with others, or something that you feel “hey, this is the US – I should be able to do anything!”, right?  Instead, the Bigger that Government gets, the more it costs – no, not in that it just keeps adding people to it and the cost of the payroll for those people skyrockets.  Rather, it requires, as the above suggests, that everyone that deals with Government has to become more expensive as well.

Two more examples are personal:

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