Steve MacDonald

The Democrats would like to Give America A Raise.  That was what Obama promised in his state of the union. When Democrats feel the need to do something, their first act is to plunder someone else to pay for it, whatever it is.  But there are plenty of other ways to give America a raise.

Complying with the mountains of government regulations is now estimated at equivalent costs equal to $14,000.00 per American, per year.  Eliminating that cost would be equal to saving every one in the country a wage of seven dollars per hour (in an average 40 hour work week)–including people who are not working, or too young to work.

The US Department of Education cost taxpayers about 70 billion per year.  Assuming the states could do the same thing for less, and why couldn’t they, if we could cut most of that cost from the Federal budget, and shift any necessary responsibility into existing state agencies, we could give America another raise.

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Another Brookline, NH Democrat Talking Point Busted…  “Guns don’t kill people, Democrat Gun Free Zones kill People.”

The only place in town where a mass shooter might possibly have some expectation of success in Kennesaw, Georgia, (where every adult is required by law to own a firearm) is the FedEx facility in town which FedEx has designated as a gun free zone.

So the shooter chose the place where they knew no one would be armed.

Brookline Democrats might have thought to look into that before tweeting this…

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A national organization that examines public school drop out rates has just graded New Hampshire.  We got an 86% (UL-Secret hand shake required).  That might sound good until you recall that Governor Maggie Hassan’s predecessor claimed the rate had dropped below 1%.  This means that under Maggie Hassan, Drop out rates have skyrocketed. (Why aren’t they reporting that?)

How?  Why? What happened?

One of the problems with Democrats plying language to create perception is that if you do not let everyone in on the scam, or someone from outside comes along and does not have the sense to propogate your deception further , the perception you worked so hard to foster can get away from you.  Put another way, the Lynch administration lied and now Democrat Maggie Hassan looks like a stooge.

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This is timely, because I am polishing up a post titled “The Battle of Competing Resentments” that plays well with the real world example of Carl DeMaio.  DeMaio is running for congress.  He’s started and sold two businesses.  He has been elected to his city council.  He has the kind of pull-yourself up life-story most Democrats have only pretended to have, and he is homosexual.  He is also a California Republican, running for office in California who has tried to focus on fiscal issues and things that matter to all americans but the “tolerant” left can’t tolerate his being a Republican so they’ve made the race about his being gay.

One false attack drew the attention of the San Diego Ethics Commission. An anonymous left-wing group funded a SuperPac and sent mailers of DeMaio Photoshopped next to a drag queen to neighborhoods with a majority of elderly and African-American voters, knowing that such a photo would depress support for DeMaio.

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I can’t help thinking that the  Democrat “big oil is trying to buy the senate thing” is an opportunity for us to make a very important point about the fundamental flaws in Democrat thinking about energy and special breaks.

First, we ought to be able to agree that any business or individual that is taxed or regulated might have an interest in why, how much, and for what purpose.  Taxes take away a portion of your legitimate earnings and regulations create costs that affect your ability to do business.  There is room for debate about the need for both taxes and regulations, and to what degree, but that debate has to include the idea that government, left to its own devices, will inevitably over tax and over regulate unless those paying its freight (or their political surrogates) argue effectively against it.

We also have to accept that there is a difference between a business that is just trying to get the government off their back and a business that is looking to get on the government’s back.  The former is what big oil is (for the most part) asking for,while the latter is what keeps a majority of so-called green energy projects treading water until they (for the most part) go under.

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