Bastiat is rolling in his grave.

About to be former NH State Senator Jeanie Forrester (but “selected” to be NH GOP Chair, according to NH GOP Committeeman Steve “Bikini Man On A Plane” Duprey, NH Senate President Chuck Morse and Gov-to-be Chris Sununu) decided that she just had to write an Op-Ed praising Social Security (full piece after the jump).  Curiously (or not, depending on your point of view and leaving aside the debate of whether it is Constitutional and if it should remain a Government pension or privately held) she decided to concentrate on saving it by emphasising how those recipients spend that money:

This outcome will have significant negative ripple effects. The income derived by Social Security benefits kicks off a cascade of events felt throughout the entire economy. That money is spent on goods and services, which supports businesses and creates jobs. But when an older American takes a cut in their already limited budget, he or she will make rational economic choices such as deciding against buying a new car or choosing not to eat out. These choices are felt throughout the economy.

According to a new analysis by AARP, Social Security fuels $1.6 trillion in economic activity in the United States. The cost of doing nothing is estimated to be upwards of $400 billion in lost economic output. Here in New Hampshire we’d see a $2 billion annual loss of economic output, which in turn could cost us around 11,100 jobs.

First off, anyone quoting AARP for anything forgets that AARP was a major 

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“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one…” -George Orwell

I don’t read the Concord Monitor. In fact, I completely avoid it ninety percent of the time.  In my humble opinion, it is a leftist rag and chucked full of worthless progressive trash. If one is ever successful of getting ten pounds of sh*t into a five-pound bag, the Monitor has nailed it. On the other hand, I cannot seem to avoid some of the seemingly useless pablum that crosses my personal news feed. Sometimes, the even the most worthless people, writing the most worthless things are instructive to us all.

On Monday, December 5, the Monitor featured a letter from one “Carla Levesque” of East Andover.  She writes,

Why I will buy a gun

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OK, a bit over the top on that title, but just by a little. After all, they both support Planned Parenthhood, right?  And giving donations to the PP Action Fund, he helped Buckles defeat Kelly Ayotte (all of his verbal protestations aside we all only have to look at his actions). And there’s one other thing that ties the two together ideologically as well but let me do a quick set up.

So J-Ho has decided that she wasn’t going for threepeat for the NH GOP Chair – good move.  And so like nature who abhors a vacuum, we’re seeing a bunch of folks flooding in to fill said vacuum.  Thus far:

• Matt Mayberry (current Vice-Chair, NHGOP)
• Wayne MacDonald (former long term Vice-Chair and NH GOP Chair)
• Jeannie Forrester (former State Senator, ran for NH GOP Gov nomination)
• JP Marzullo (former Vice-Chair)

And this is where the NEXT tie-in with Ray Buckley comes in (and no, it doesn’t involve fake bikinis – that I know of):

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Yesterday it was reported in the Union Leader that the bureaucrats making the rules for New Hampshire’s “druggie database” now want to require Veterinarians to not only add certain medications for pets into the database but they want to require vets to look up the human owners of said pets to check on THEIR information in the database. Recall the database was put into place to try and somehow stop drug addicts from getting more of the drugs they are addicted to.

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