“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small,but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

Yes, all the dirt about a person gets thrown up during campaigns especially for national ones – each candidate’s live is going to get dissected five ways to Sunday.  And just during this Republican Primary campaign, much has been made about Donald Trump’s “problems”.  And yes, I know personally how it feels when somebody decides to vamoose and you get stiffed.  Yet, it was done legally and while you never want it to happen to you, that is part of the risk of doing business.  And you are lucky if you get cents on the dollar owed.

But what can we do when a President and Political Party decided that stiffing YOU for their insistence on implementing their ideology come hell or high water?  What is your redress?  In this case, nothin’:

DOCTORS, HOSPITALS GETTING STIFFED FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY OBAMACARE CO-OPS: A dozen of the 24 Obamacare health insurance co-ops established at a cost of $2.5 billion in 2012 have failed (and more are expected to do so). Now, hundreds of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who served co-op policyholders are being muscled aside by federal bureaucrats claiming the government should be the first creditor in the bankruptcy line.

So, twice screwed over – once by taking taxes from you for purposes that the Federal Government should not be doing and then again when not only are you out the tax money, you ain’t getting paid either:

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I’m sorry, but teachers are OUR EMPLOYEES – this Mississippi House rep clearly shows that Government should be in charge, not of your kids, but you as well.  That’s right, you who pay their salaries, should now be able to be called onto the carpet.  This is an attempt to codify what I’ve been saying for years now: teachers believe they have more right to your kids than you do and now by making parents more subservient.  From Watchdog (reformatted, emphasis mine):

If a bill passed by the Mississippi House becomes law, students won’t be the only ones receiving grades from teachers. Under House Bill 4, also known as the Parent Involvement and Accountability Act, teachers would be required to grade parents’ involvement with their children’s education.

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(Data H/T: CNN Money)

And overall, what does it take to be in the top 1%?

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I remember people saying that back in 1968, too. Back then, it was the New Left radicals attacking (literally a riot) their “own” Party, the Democrats.  Now, the New Left (organized by MoveOn.org) is going after Trump – who breaks every conceivable Political Correctness out there.  And we are now seeing, outside of college campuses), what happens to those that violate their religious tenets.  There can be no dissent allowed from that Leftist orthodoxy (just look how many times the Left has tried to silence and diminish the ‘Grok simply because we hold different political and moral views.

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Kyle Tasker resigned his House seat Wednesday, probably before they voted to boot him out. Tasker was arrested for possession with intent to sell and soliciting sex from a minor over the internet, which we talked about here. And there is more to discuss on those points. But that’s not the story today. Today, according to NH’s own Ruling Class, Kyle Tasker is your fault.

“We don’t elect them, we try to do the best we can when they get here,” said House Speaker Shawn Jasper.

According to Jasper, Tasker was infamous for showing up to sessions reeking of alcohol and sometimes marijuana.

“I was not surprised at the drug charges. I certainly was in terms of the solicitation of a minor. That was rather shocking,” Jasper said Wednesday.

And it isn’t just Reps registered as Republicans who think you are to blame.

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We are increasingly living in an oligarchy where big money is buying politicians. We must overturn Citizens United before it’s too late.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 11, 2016

The unspoken half-truth behind this idea is that while money has influence campaign finance reform does nothing to fix that. Citizen’s United made it better. Campaign finance reform makes it worse.

It removes money that would be spent in open campaigns and shifts it into the pockets of lawyers and lobbyists who spend it on influence inside the beltway or they invest it directly into the pockets and campaigns of elected politicians.

What? You believe that people who are being taxed and regulated are going to stop trying to influence how they are taxed and regulated simply because they can’t buy TV and radio ads or print mailers during an election campaign? Who told you that?

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If you’ve forgotten, the University of Missouri had a riot, of sorts. A protest. A sit in, with standing, and shouting. There was fist waving and threats over the alleged outrage over an alleged poop swastika, on an alleged bathroom wall, left–perhaps allegedly–by some alleged descendant of Piltdown Man.

All the finest people were offended. At least one student went on a hunger strike. Their lousy football team refused to play another lousy game. Students missed important instruction in the outrage of hetero-normative oppression. Classes on self-loathing and white privilege came to a halt.

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