There is a difference between the Free Market and the Government Market

And TreeHugger decided to demonstrate that, with clueless irony, all on their own.  Yes, one more from TreeHugger that shows that Environmentalism has really left its roots of DOING environmental work and very much all about getting Big Government and its big teat (and very much, dependent on that teat) to do it instead as well as forcing lifestyle changes upon people that otherwise would not.  This time, trying to go all yammering that Republicans not supporting Govt supported jobs is hypocritical and ignoring the foundation of their illogic:

Siemens Lays Off 38% of US Workforce – Cites Lack of Wind Power Support Romney Favors

That wind power jobs and installations in the US rise and fall in line with federal tax policy for the renewable energy source is solidly established,…

You’d think after decades of watching the “ups and downs”, and being tax experts (as all Big Multinationals are), some would learn to not play the game.  Problem is, profits are to be made when the Government either directly or indirectly manages a marketplace via tax policy.  And the writer of the post is surprised at this?  Mere youngster that thinks history starts with his birth.  However, he yammers onward:

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This seems about right – but he’s WAY too polite

‘Grok friend Chan over at Weekend Pundit has a quick succinct summary of Barack Hussein Obama’s 4 years: Despite the water-carrying the MSM is doing for Obama, the narrative has been shifting from Romney’s perceived ‘deficiencies’ to Obama’s failures, both foreign and domestic. His Middle East foreign policy has been shown to be a disaster … Read more

Why Aren’t they Free?

Why aren’t they Free?  Because taxpayers are not paying for them, that’s why.  Mr. Redistribution isn’t about to give up money for his campaign just so you can wear his gear.  Although mandatory purchases are not out of the question after the election (should he win).  You can wear it while you look longingly at  … Read more

If Sea Ice Grew and No One Was There to ‘Report’ It, Did It Really Happen?

antarctic sea ice reaches 33 year high in 2012 and climbingForbes has a story about the Antarctic.  It’s that other frozen wasteland, the one you never hear much about.   You don’t hear anything about it because for the past 33 years the amount of sea-ice in the antarctic has apparently been growing, and as of this week–due to record cold temperatures in the region–has reached its highest reading ever.

That means there is more sea-ice in the antarctic than at any time since we started recording it.

The real story, of course, is the fact that when Forbes searched Google News for any sign of the story it was nowhere to be found.

A historical record.  More Antarctic sea ice than ever seen in recorded history.  And the Chicken-Little Media isn’t reporting it…

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Did You Get Your Daily ‘Grok! ?

It’s easy to get email updates, once a day, with links to every GraniteGrok post from the previous 24hours.  Just put your email in the box and you are done.  The email shows up each day and you’ve got one-click access to all the latest news and commentary from New Hampshire’s leading Conservative Blog Site. … Read more

Pledge Allegiance To Obama!?

You heard right.  The latest trick to come out of the Obama campaign  hat.  Take a picture of yourself, hand over heart–something vapid written on your hand (policy memes in a vacuum) so everyone can see it, and post it to show your undying support for Dear Leader. I’m not sure what strikes me as … Read more

President Obama’s War on the Rich

I was very pleased to read in Paul Bonneville’s letter of September 5 in the Laconia Daily Sun (and Sept 6 in The Citizen of Laconia) that he is doing better now than four years ago, so few people are doing better.  He talks about the stock market “recovery”, of course that only helps if you have money and managed to invest in the right stocks.  Perhaps Bonneville is in the 1%?

President Obama’s war on the rich is apparently working as reports are that higher wage incomes are down 15-20 %.  Frankly, I don’t see how that helps me, it certainly doesn’t make it easier for me to pay my bills.  And, I haven’t figured out why I should be happy that any American is less well off. 

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If The Dover New Hampshire Court Suspends The ID law…

I’m not sure what the outcome will be of the suit to suspend the new Voter ID and domicile requirements in New Hampshire, but if the four out of state college students somehow succeed, I would like to suggest that we move to refund them the difference between in-state and out-of state tuition. If they … Read more

Where “Grassroots” Can Earn You $100.00/Hour

There’s an ad on Craigslist for professional political workers. (the entire ad is on the jump).

Grassroots solutions, which claims to be a national field organization that is all about helping coordinate grassroots political efforts, is hiring people to help Planned Parenthood of Northern New England do door to door canvassing in the Concord and Manchester Area to promote pro-abortion candidates (women’s health)…that would be Democrats.  You get $100/hour plus gas allowance.

I have a lot of questions.  Like how can it be grassroots if you pay $100.00 per hour?  Or, how is it that Planned Parenthood of Northern New England can afford to run this canvassing campaign but can’t run their business model without my tax dollars?

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Unhappy Muslims!

These guys are unhaaaapy. Too bad, eh?

This is kind of fun, and funny.

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Notable Quote: A Lesson For Tax and Spend Democrats?

“…Despots we see, do plunder their subjects, though history and experience tell them that, by prematurely extracting the means of profusion, they are in fact devouring the seed-corn from which the future harvest of revenue is to spring.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay  

Regional Planning Commission Meeting Tomorrow – Milford

Our apologies for the very short notice. Last week, on the heels of a GSF rejection victory in Rochester, Dover shot down their Scenic Byway program, and the standing-room-only crowd made a HUGE difference. The Nashua Regional Planning Commission (NRPC) is holding their Executive Committee and regular Commission meetings, this Wednesday night, September 19th, in … Read more

Progressives – it’s NOT your money if not being used for the greatest and common good

according to their philosophy.  And so say them directly – Hillary Rosen, Ann Kuster, and Barack Hussein Obama.  If you are not using your money for the common good according to  ReProgressives (presently, one’s money to be “in the economy”), they feel perfectly fine and capable to remove it from you and call it taxation. I remember when Democrat “strategist” Hillary Rosen made this claim back on “Meet The Press” (July 15) on a discussion on jobs and that silly argument that Romney wasn’t paying his taxes:

MS. ROSEN: Well, and that’s the problem. Right now the plan that we’ve seen from Mitt Romney is just mostly significant tax cuts for the wealthy. President Obama actually has put forth multiple plans that the Republican Congress has blocked. So, the only thing we have now is a choice. This conversation may not be what everybody wants, but we do have a choice between these two candidates. And when you look at something like what Mitt Romney has done, hiding his taxes, there’s– you– you know, if every American hid their money and invested it in overseas tax havens, where would this economy be? You know…

Well, Uber-Progressive Regressive Ann McKluster is making the same claim in a debate with Charlie Bass for US Congress in NH CD-2:

“It isn’t about millionaires against everybody else,” Bass said on the tax issue. “It’s about getting this economy turned around again. Raising taxes in the middle of this recession without having any comprehensive plan to turn the economy around is a bad idea.”

“If these resources were being used to create new jobs, then the small business wouldn’t be paying taxes on them,” said Kuster. “That’s a deduction.

“The point is, these people with this kind of income right now are not putting the money back into the economy,” she said. “They’re not hiring new people. Frankly, they’re not even buying new goods.”

You see, you do not own yourself.  You are not entitled to the fruits of your labor – your wages, your salary, your income if you are not using it according to THEIR purposes.

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Oh yeah, let’s not forget about “They don’t need it” argument – the foundation for Redistribution

That’s another tenet of Liberalism / Regressivism Progressivism to go along with “You don’t do the right things with it” meme.  They look at the well to-do, the rich, and the uber-rich and think “we can take it because they won’t miss it and they don’t need it”.  Really?  You can take it because YOU feel they don’t need it?  Really, how much closer to a bad rationalization do you have to make keep from letting your better side from realizing “er, isn’t that stealing“?  Just because someone has WAY more than you have means that it is perfectly legitimate for you to just take what they own for your own Progressive purposes?  Not only is this wrong, it is the absolute epitome of the definition of selfishness.  How hollow it must be to publicly be saying “look at what we give to people” all the while working hard (or being very dismissive) to not square the cognitive dissonance that the possible freedom they give to some in a material way is far outweighed by the tyranny laid upon those from who they take on the other side of the equation.

Sure, it is always posed as “We are merely asking that the rich give a little more“.  Absolute nonsense – as the top 10% of income earners pay 70% of all income taxes, how much more should they be paying?  There  is no “asking” (which implies one can say “no” as an acceptable answer) and there is no “giving” (which would be voluntary).  Such sophistry and solipsism: any “asking” is really a legal demand while the “giving” is merely paying a tax bill – or landing in the Old Pokey with nice steel bars around you.  There is no “voluntary” about it.  Oh, to be sure, there will be commenters that will jump all over this with that silly “We all belong to the Goverment as the one thing we do” or we all have to pay taxes.  Oh, to be sure, we do have to pay taxes – but Progressives want Government to overspread and take over Society such there there is only Government, and that takes more and more and more in taxes (in which, Progressives act just like, and are no better with respect to Private Property, Willy Sutton).

Truly, Progressivism is a morally bankrupt philosophy.

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Indeed – the next President will inherit a mess

A loyal reader sent this in: Obama has made a habit of blaming everything that has gone wrong during his Administration on his immediate predecessor. This will be fun to watch for a little bit, as we all circle and swirl around the drain if Obama get re-elected… (H/T: Dan)

Ask A New Hampshire Democrat…Can I just Show up and Vote as a Delegate at Your State Convention?

Today, in Dover, a judge will hear complaints from the League of Women voters and the ACLU about New Hampshire’s law regarding proof of domicile and voter ID.  Their premise is that out of state students should not have to act like they live here to vote here. That requiring them to at least pretend to live here is some kind of suppression or violation of their rights.

I wonder if that works for other things as well?  Does my mere presence on the floor of the New Hampshire House make me a legislator?  Do I get to vote on the House floor for say, Dover, or Portsmouth, just because I want to?

Better yet, how about if I just show up at the Democrat state party convention, you know, me and a few hundred people…will you let us vote as delegates?  Let us choose your chairman and officers, vote on your party platform?  We don’t want to join the Democrat party, we don’t even want to pretend to join, we just want to vote on everything that defines it and everyone who leads it.

Ask a New Hampshire Democrat….Would that be ok?

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