At that level of any organization, one never knows in looking from the outside in and bottom up whether is was pre-ordained, self-determined, or “quit or be fired”.  In any case, HHS Secretary Sebelius has handed in that resignation.  $700 million and four years for a website that still doesn’t work (front end mostly, but the back end is still rather buck naked).  $700 million spent on marketing to get signups.  Bogus numbers on that end too.

People will remember her – those that got “affordable” healthcare only because the Law was rigged to be a financial Hoover of the middle and upper classes to pay for it (once again, Progressives only tout who they help and NEVER who they’ve hurt).  Earn too much for a subsidy and you are forced into a plan that averages 41% higher premiums and two to four times the deductible.  You know what that means?  

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Back in the day, when candidate Jeanne Shaheen was parroting the Democrat party line in Iraq and Afghanistan, we had good wars and bad wars.  We had daily body counts, anti-war protests, and something called expensive and unnecessary Defense (or military) spending.

Children, women, families, roads, schools, didn’t we all suffer as a result of those mixed up priorities.  I know I didn’t.  But there was a lot of talk about it.  A lot of talk.

In the age of Obama, the first part of which had a sidecar with a Democrat majority House and Senate, these staples of candidate and media excess vanished. There were still war dead, and we continued to spend, you just didn’t hear about that, until –Oh, I don’t know, how about right now?

How much has the Federal Government spent on National defense, and the military in particular, during the tenure of New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen?

For the purpose of this exercise the years of GWB’s warmongering, and these numbers include defense budgets and then just the military portion of that total, are calculated from 2002-2009.  Eight budgets worth.  And yes, Obama was the man in 2009 but we’ve given that first year to Bush, because Obama did kind of inherit that, but remember– it was passed by an entirely Democrat majority congress.

Shaheen gets credit for 2010 through 2014, five years worth of outlays.

So who spent more on defense and the military?

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Does the following make you think of a certain big eared person?  Or a certain Mann?  The Gaystapos?  The Left? Odd that they all claim the mantle of science and tolerance when neither are true.  Hoffer helps explain why.  All emphasis mine.

All active mass movements strive…to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ. … To rely on the evidence of the senses and of reason is heresy and treason. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

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Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species. There is ample reason to believe that a sharp cooling of the climate would bring disastrous results for human civilization.

Humans are a tropical species. We evolved at the equator in a climate where freezing weather did not exist. The only reasons we can survive these cold climates are fire, clothing, and housing…It is “extremely likely” that a warmer temperature than today’s would be far better than a cooler one.”

—Dr. Patrick Moore – Feb. 25, 2014 testimony before the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

H/T PlantsNeedCO2.org

One more from Dr. Moore on the jump

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I think income equality starts with the people in government, most of whom make way too much money and have far too many incentives to milk the taxpayers and the system dry without fear of repercussion.  People should not be getting rich from elected office, period.

The answer (maybe) is to ensure the job of an elected or appointed official has few or no fiscal incentives that are not somehow tied to the effects their policies have on those they claim to represent.

So here are a few wild and outlandish suggestions to begin the process of achieving Income equality with the d-bags in DC.

No one in congress should be paid more than the national average annual income of the private sector that pays their salaries.   (A similar methodology should be worked up for the other branches of government.)

No pay or benefits for life for elected or appointed officials after they leave office regardless of the job or years served.

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I have long remarked on how the relying on property taxes keeps the total tax burden down because when you see the taxes you pay in a lump sum (or two lump sums) you are more likely to inquire as to why you are paying that much and to what end.  This ‘interest’ in the machinations of government is what keeps the total tax burden lower.

And while one-sixth of all taxes are property based, New Hampshire citizens still rank as one of the least taxed states in the nation.

According to Census Bureau data, New Hampshire collected $1,791 in taxes per person in 2013. Only Florida ($1,769) and Georgia ($1,781) were lower.

Massachusetts collected almost twice as much: $3,571.

Maine collected $2,924 per person while Vermont collected $4,594

Sales and income taxes remove transparency by funneling tens of millions to the state capitol by pinching every transaction.  The sums add up but on their own seem insignificant at the time.  It is just another line on the paycheck or at the bottom of the receipt.

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…at any moment now we should see outraged liberals unleash an avalanche of legislation at the state and federal level placing restrictions on heel length, how many sets of shoes you can own, nights out, boyfriends, arguments, drinking, and while we’re at it, the month of June.

HOUSTON (Reuters) — A Texas jury found a woman guilty on Tuesday of beating her boyfriend to death with a 5-1/2-inch spikeheeled stiletto shoe during an argument after a night out drinking in June. Prosecutors said Ana Trujillo, 45, stabbed University of Houston professor Stefan Andersson, 59, about two dozen times in the face and head with the shoe.

Wait….

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