Merrimack Elections Tomorrow – My….Observations

I don’t usually weigh in on local elections but after someone stole my Krupp for school board sign I have been properly pissed off.  You wanted my attention, you have it.

So here we go.  I am not endorsing so much as suggesting.   And I am not weighing in on everything this time around.  But that will change in the future.

School Board – Two positions

Gary Krupp, Joe Kearns.  I want to see some fresh meat on this board.  But if you can’t find room in your ballot for Joe’s fresh face, go with Andy Schneider.   Vote for Gary either way.  We need this guy on the School Board.

School District Article 6 – (Article 6 would eliminate the School Budget Committee.)

Four words – Don’t frikkin Do It!  Do not disband your budget committee.  In fact, you should be trying to figure out how to add one to the town side.  Budget committees are not a waste of time or resources.  Spend five minutes looking at the history of waste, corruption, inside deal making, tax scams,  and embezzlement schemes in small town New Hampshire and you will find responsible budget committees sorely lacking.

You can never, ever, have enough eyes looking at any budget, particularity one as large as the Merrimack School District.

Vote NO on Article 6.

Now for a quick trip to the Town side of the ballot,

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Pam Tucker: New Hampshire’s answer to Sarah Palin?

In one week the New Hampshire Republican Party will hold its annual meeting. At that meeting the members of the Republican State Committee will vote on various matters, including

State Rep. Pam Tucker

the election of two members to the Republican National Committee (RNC) from New Hampshire. The winners of the two elections—one man and one woman—will sit on the RNC along with 164 other members.

State Representative Pam Tucker, who lives in Greenland with her husband and children, is running for one of the NH Republican National Committee seats on Saturday. She is the vice chairman of the powerful State House Rules Committee, a deputy speaker of the State House, and is the best kind of Republican: As a strong conservative activist for the NH GOP, she believes in all the values in our state party platform. She has a nice dash of the proverbial “libertarian tendencies” too. All of which makes her acceptable to all branches of the NH Republican Party, including the establishment, the Main Street Republicans, the social conservatives, the free marketeers, the Tea Partiers, and my own libertarian-conservative Republicans.

Sound familiar? This lady has it all, just like Sarah Palin (who is standing the test of time far better than those who ran the smear campaigns against her in 2008).

But there’s more….

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A Poke In the Democrat’s Soft Tissue?

I’m happy to report that I may be getting under someone’s skin (again).  Not long after making a passing observation about political signs cropping up on the lawns of committed Democrat tax and spenders, a campaign sign vanished from in front of my house. Yes, dear readers, someone stole a campaign sign from my yard.  … Read more

Where Maya Angelou intimates that we can be legislated to love each other

Huh? I was looking up a word that was the equivalent of gaggle at Dictionary.com but starting with a “p” (then it popped up in my head: ” radical vision of Obama and his punishing posse of Progressives“) but there was a quote that was in the right sidebar from  Maya Angelo (emphasis mine): Strictly … Read more

Meet Another State Employee Wasting Taxpayer Time Online

We thought DickNH was trying to set a record for a state employee posting comments at the Concord Monitor on taxpayer time.  He was posting comments and promoting his Democrat union agenda during office hours.  But since our discovery and the ongoing effort to pursue a 91-A Right to Know Request to determine just how deep and wide this rabbit hole goes, at least three things have become clear.

1) Prior to March 7th 2012 Dick de Seve (DickNH) was misappropriating significant amounts of taxpayer time and services on State equipment to advance his own personal political agenda, if not more than that.

2) The Department of Environmental Services seems to be in bureaucratic duck and cover mode because the abuse went on almost daily on a public platform for more than three years without notice.

3) Mr. de Seve is not the only state employee whiling away their taxpayer funded days commenting at the NH Democrat Party paper of record, the Concord Monitor.  (We’ll get around to the other papers, be patient.)

We’d like you to meet Gaia, the handle of another state employee whose internet abuse may just put Dick de Seve to shame.

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From James Pindell’s Political Standing

Really? “Is there any truth to the rumor that next weekend Republican National Committeeman Steve Duprey will be challenged on the floor from an opponent from the right flank?” Interesting rumor…

“Germany set to tax young”

Well, the Blue Social Model of Socialism is its own Ponzi scheme – and when you run out of young people, you run out of other peoples’ money.  From the Sydney Morning Herald (reformatted here): GERMANY is proposing to levy extra taxes on the young to pay for the costs of the country’s growing numbers … Read more

President Obama’s stewardship of the Federal Government downrated AGAIN.

From Big Government (reformatted here): A small credit ratings agency downgraded the United States’ credit rating for a second time, arguing the country was no closer to solving its runaway debt problem.  In a move that could foreshadow decisions from larger agencies, Egan-Jones downgraded the US to AA from AA+. The company on Thursday cited … Read more

Data Point – Interest payments on slope to exceed DoD budget

Liberals and Progressives have, for years, said that we have to decrease spending on defense and spend it on more important things – don’t think that they meant debt payments.  Sorry, but you guys, in the end, are going to be the ones that screwed your own social programs. (H/T: Weekly Standard)

Pay As You Throw Had To Go – Revisited

In April of 2011 I wrote about trying to institute Pay As You Throw in Merrimack.  Seeing as this comes up every year, I figured it was time to re-post it.  One point I would add; If any division of the town government intends to continue making a case for costs/burden related to actual use they should be prepared for an all out assault on school taxes (you are still taxing the elderly, childless, and parents with kids out of school), Hydrant fees (we all pay them but who ever uses them), and much, much, more.

by Steve MacDonald – Originally posted on April 22,2011

trash bagThe Merrimack Town Council bent to the will of the voters and scrapped plans to institute a pay as you throw program.  That would have required residents to buy special bags for trash at $1.00 or $1.50 per bag, and you could only use those bags at the town dump.

But we’ve been warned.  This is an issue that will be revisited. Or so we have been told.

Well, screw that, let’s look at it now.

The Complete Dick de Seve Comment Stream

I know you have been waiting for this.  It is the complete Dick de Seve comment stream from the Concord Monitor, compiled from November of 2008 until March 6th 2012.  It is over 300 pages of PDF, for which I apologize–I could have formatted it better–but I provided the link to the Scribd site below.  … Read more

Decisions – which will you choose?

Make no mistake – there is a political battle going on simply because it is a Presidential election year.  But also make no mistake – there is a philosophical battle going on for the soul of what this country can and should be; what should the Land of the Free have as its guiding principle?  This battle is between two diametrically opposed visions – the first is that now being pushed by the radical vision of Obama and his punishing posse of Progressives defined by the socialist collective ideal.  In this world, Government is the most important part of the country’s life and guides and defines (and ultimately demands)  how the rest of us will live our lives.  Here, they would devolve us back to a system where elites and technocrats, within the almost unlimited confines of the Administrative State, would carefully let us know what is good and bad, right and wrong.  All, we are assured, would live equitably with completely shared values – predetermined by the Politically Correct set.  Society well defined and ‘efficient’ – the messy chaos that would otherwise exist is, well, would be a thing of the past.

The alternative is what this Republic was founded upon – radical vision that all men are created equal with Rights given by their Creator where each person is free to make of themselves what they will, all the gift of both the genius and sacrifices of our Founders.  The new notion that we get to decide how we are to be governed by our consent by a Government that is (supposed to be) responsive to us (instead of the other way around).  Further, that Government is bound by a limiting document that explicitly lays out what it can and cannot do, what each part of that government should and shouldn’t do, and all for our benefit (instead of for the benefit of Government).

Hmmm, this is not how I thought this post was gonna go; well, words happen.  What got me started was the that phrase that is now the title (from Hot Air and ended up as the title of my previous post: You’re On Your Own vs We Refuse to Leave You Alone) as well as a memory that got kicked off as I read it.

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“You’re on your own” vs. “We refuse to leave you alone”

1. You’re On Your Own

Ever notice that Liberals want both ways, 1 & 2?  As a Conservative, they wish to take ownership of ours – #1.  Yep – lock, stock, and barrel.  They hate the idea that we like being on our own – being responsible for ourselves, being responsible for our families, friends, and neighbors.  They cannot understand that we believe that this is a virtue – a goodness.  They look at us and go “By yourselves? What about Community?  What about ‘all for one and one for all’?  What happens if you fail?”.

I have made a decision on my own.  I have decided that the resources for which I have worked and earned are less in value than what I need – or want.  An individual valuation – not a community (or “democratic”) decision (as the Occupy Wall Streeters want us all to do).  To them, “on your own” is a curse.  Obama is now using it just like militant atheists are belittling those of faith (“how STUPID are you to believe in that?”). Really, it must scare him so “You’re on your own”!  And he says it with a negative, sarcastic tone; “Social Darwinism” – makes it sound like its a bad thing!  Well, for him and his ilk, it is.  They hate our philosophy (and just to rub it in: “which built this country, no matter what Obama is claiming!”).  I find it perverse: they demand the “choice” to kill unborn children, but refuse to give us the freedom to decide for ourselves.

2. We Refuse To Leave  You Alone

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Has Obama lost touch with reality?

Has President Obama lost touch with reality? Even for a consummate liar, President Obama’s statement that Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) was “passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress” is stunning.

Obamacare was so unpopular that deals (the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, etc) were required to get enough Democrat senator support for passage.

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Smart Girl Politics Action: “They don’t speak for us”

Smart Girl Politics Action launches “They Don’t Speak for Us” asking women to put the conversation back on real issues important to women. Women are forced everyday to make sacrifices and its time that we put pressure on Congress and this Administration to stop playing games and get back to work for the American people. … Read more

Public Education Money Pit

DoE Money pit - Obama and Duncan keep shoveling it into the bottomless holeGeorge Bush 43 doubled the budget at the Department of Education over eight years to roughly $32 billion.  Barack Obama more than double it again with the only bloated budget the Democrat congress ever dared to pass.

That first Obama budget increased spending at the Department from Education from $32 billion per year in 2009 to $71,000,000,000.00 (Billion) per year by 2011.   That works out to over $400 million more dollars spent per school day nationally (assuming 180 days of school), in addition to all the state or local taxes you also pay for public education.  And Obama want’s more.  For what you ask?

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Obama and his Progressive view of the Constitution to get what he wants

As John from Powerline put it: Yet the Supreme Court has expanded the scope of the clause beyond all recognition, to the point where it has rendered the most basic principle of the Constitution, that our national government is one of limited and enumerated powers, almost a nullity. Michael Ramirez illustrates graphically how one clause, … Read more

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