From Big Government:

1. A Record 91.8 Million Americans Are No Longer in the Workforce

…According to the U.S. Census, 317 million people live in the United States.

2. Since Jan. 2009, the Number of Jobless Working-Age Americans Has Risen 9.6 Million People

…That means that the number of working age Americans that are not working has grown by close to 10 million since Barack Obama first took office.

3.  47.4 Million Americans Now Rely on Food Stamps

…roughly one out of every six Americans – now receives food stamps 

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But no United States of America – ostensibly, “the Land of the Free” – in the latest version of  Economic Freedom Report.

“You know, if you like your freedom, you can keep it. Or maybe not,” said Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) at an Index panel hosted by the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “This year the United States slips in a ranking for economic freedom. Why? Because economic freedom is inversely proportional to the size of your government. And government continues to grow at an alarming pace.”

“The government takeover of health care is a significant loss of freedom,” said the senator. “In fact, I would argue that Obamacare involves the largest loss of freedom of choice in 50 years.”

It isn’t just the laws that are passed –

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Global Warming has never been about warming.  It is a scheme to use “energy” and the environment to direct behavior toward a socialist system of central planning, even if that “system” is contrary to the stated objective of climate alarmism.

If you need proof of that take a look at this.

United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.

China may be the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and struggling with major pollution problems of their own, but the country is “doing it right” when it comes to fighting global warming says Figueres.

I challenge anyone, with a straight face, to explain how communist countries are cleaner and better for the planet–environmentally–than the United States or even the semi-socialist western Democracies in Western Europe.  You can’t.  So the goal is communism–or something like it–even though it is also the fastest way to ruin the planet.

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Senator Shaheen is not beyond the  idea of applying pressure to ensure favorable outcomes.  The IRS Scandal continues unresolved after she and other Democrat Senators wrote repeatedly to the IRS to crack down on non-profits.

The IRS answered the call, with trails leading all the way back to the White House.   Dozens of conservative groups are still lined up waiting for approval thanks to Shaheen while left-leaning non-profits and groups like Hilltop Public Solutions commit vote fraud and coordinate dark money support for Democrats with little fear of action from the federal level and no press coverage when states try to respond.

So we have to ask.  Now that Democrat Senator Mark Udall from Colorado has been implicated in a scandal in which his office may have applied pressure to state bureaucrats to downplay estimates of people who received cancellation notices and lost coverage due to ObamaCare, has Democrat Jeanne Shaheen or any other Democrat made similar moves here in New Hampshire?

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No, not the once almost but not quite (a few times) Super bowl team from Western New York, I am referring of course to the Bell ringing Hunchbacked steeple denizen tolling the hour of misery.

The Bells the Bells!!

No.  That’s not it either.

I refer to the avalanche of New Hampshire legislation pouring our way (at all of us), begging for some attention.  And is it just me or is there an above average number of crappy bills this session?

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From Gallup:

So, We the People think Government is “the worst of all evils” (thanks, General Stark!) as we continue to lose freedoms (the power to choose for ourselves).  Obamacare is taking our choice away in the area of healthcare.  Dodd-Frank (financial sector) is now starting the nationalization of the banking sector (more on ObamaLoan later).  Who decides on the type of car you can drive?  The kinds of houses you can live in?  The energy you can use?  The lights you can use?

Do you think that the Republicans would be doing more on this front?  Of COURSE, you’d be right – with the exception of folks like Cruz, Lee, Paul, Amash, and a handful of others, what seems to be the topic du Jour for DC Republicans?  Well, let me give you a hint – Big Biz is shoving them (via the US Chamber of Commerce as well as pro-biz (vs pro Free Market) special interest groups) into Immigration, especially in granting Amnesty.  Yessiree bob!  With a U6 level of Unemployment of 13%, the Party that is trying to be “the Party of the ordinary guys” is about to shaft those self-same folks: the lower skilled blue collar white & minority workers and those trying to get a start in the Economy.  What do you think is gonna happen when 12 million illegal aliens get Amnesty and then be able to compete openly in the marketplace?  Sure, the American Citizen, with a family and a mortgage, is going to get screwed over. 

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That would be Green on the outside, Red on the inside.  And in this case, this would be the old fashioned reason for Red – and it doesn’t mean the traditional “true blue American” either.  Red for Socialist…..or Communists (and we need to correct the coloration).  Every environmentalist and their actions always require a solution that….coerces. Freedom of Choice?  Nah, because we think other than their groupthink.  Here’s a three-fer: Environmentalism / climate change, the United Nations, and Communism:

United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.

China may be the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and struggling with major pollution problems of their own, but the country is “doing it right” when it comes to fighting global warming says Figueres.

…Figueres added that the deep partisan divide in the U.S. Congress is “very detrimental” to passing any sort of legislation to fight global warming. The Chinese Communist Party, on the other hand,

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“.and giving Obama the ability to whine “I can’t wait for Congress“.”

A “do nothing Congress”?  How ’bout obstructionist Senate – Leader, that is:

Moderate Republicans who occasionally vote with Democrats and help broker bipartisan compromise are annoyed as well. Senator Lisa Murkowki of Alaska told the New York Times she was “kind of fed up” with Reid’s obstructionism. “He’s a leader. Why is he not leading this Senate? Why is he choosing to ignore the fact that he has a minority party that he needs to work with, that actually has some decent ideas? Why is he bringing down the institution of the Senate?”

Allowing a “reasonable number of relevant amendments” from the minority party has not always been considered a concession in the Senate. It was once referred to as “regular order.” Despite Reid’s claims that he has been “very generous with amendments,” the number of amendment votes per year (not counting non-binding budget amendments, which by law cannot be limited) has declined from 218 in 2007, when Reid became majority leader, to 67 in 2013. Since July of last year, Republicans have been allowed a grand total of four amendments.

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(H/T: Mediaite, reformatted, emphasis mine):

Jimmy LaSalvia, the founder of the conservative gay advocacy group GOProud, has officially announced his departure from the Republican Party. “Today, I joined the ranks of unaffiliated voters. I am every bit as conservative as I’ve always been, but I just can’t bring myself to carry the Republican label any longer,” LaSalvia wrote. “You see, I just don’t agree with the big-government ‘conservatives’ who run the party now.”

I grow weary of them, too. Good choice, maybe, but now it will be harder to change it from the inside.  Trust me, I know the feeling – which way is the better one?

He also cited the GOP’s “tolerance of bigotry” as a reason for his departure. “The current leadership lacks the courage to stand up to it,” he lamented, “I’m not sure they ever will.” LaSalvia remarked upon his successful efforts to “create an atmosphere on the right where conservatives can openly support gay Americans and even support same-sex marriage,” but noted there is “more work to do” to “root out the anti-gay and other forms of bigotry in the party.”

I grow weary of this, too.  Three axis to contemplate: 

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