Really?

Is it truly the position of Government Employees that NH Parents are WRONG in not having perfect strangers to be forced to feed their kids?

Well, the answer is right in the first sentence of the article (mostly)- it is always about the Benjamins:

The rates of children who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches has ballooned over a decade. Yet area school officials say there are more eligible families who don’t apply for the program, which not only provides access to meals but also qualifies schools for federal grants and additional state money.

The percentage of students in New Hampshire who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches grew by 66 percent over 10 years. As of October 2012, 46,659, or 27.3 percent, of New Hampshire public school students in grades 1 through 12 qualified for the program, up from 16.4 percent in 2002.

Poverty has not grown that fast in NH to account for that level of growth – I saw this in Gilford, which is a rather well off town, and what I kept hearing from the School officials (despite the low poverty rate in town).  And it was always “where else to get more money from somewhere else”.  Of course, it was always “for the children”.

It continues to disturb me that I continue to see an attitude by 

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“Socialist elitism will not conquer the Granite State by way of the federal government, but with its steady migration of mass-holes, carpet bagging their NIMBY politics, CAVE politicos and BANANA buddies, manipulative zoning, community planning, variances, fees and their homegrown branded definition of ‘Quality of life’…” —LFGC Club President Rick Olson

I had not remembered saying that until I saw it in a publication whose topic is the building of shooting ranges. I stand by that statement and I think many would agree that we see this phenomenon in play more and more frequently as the Granite State becomes inundated with transplants.

Many come (and will come) to get their slice of the Normal Rockwell life then work at a feverish pitch to exclude others…or worse yet, stamp out those who do not fit that picturesque definition. They have amassed fortunes in places like Boston so they give little consideration to the local economy or culture they do not see.

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We are being sold the idea that we need to expand Medicaid in NH.  Why?

New Hampshire is historically a very well off state, with the lowest poverty rate in the nation.  We rank in the top five every year for healthiest state while ranking 36th for public health funding.    (Knocks on wooden heads…) That says that public health funding (consistently)  has nothing to do with actual outcomes.

Our poverty rate is well below the national average, recently dropping from 8.8 to as low as 5.6% and currently somewhere in between because of the Democrat’s stagnating economy.  That’s 5-8% of the population in New Hampshire–and that is a determination based on measures  established by people trying to expand the program, so take that with a grain of salt if you like.

So without  going further you’d be right to ask why a well-to-do state, with low poverty, low unemployment, and high health outcomes with low public health funding, would even need to embrace the ugly entanglements of Obama-Care in exchange for a $2.4 Billion dollar bribe.

The answer is “we don’t.”

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Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the woman who shares an anti-TEA Party agenda with more than a few Republicans, was supposed to attend a book signing at St. Anselm College today, but Global warming has chosen to dump a foot of snow on Southern and Central New Hampshire today.

The event has been cancelled, as has the protest scheduled to coincide with the book signing.

The book is titled ‘For the next Generation,’ a notion that any honest Democrat could elucidate on a cocktail napkin.

” You owe us $17 Trillion in Debt and $128 Trillion for unfunded entitlements.  You’re Welcome.”

Schultz and the progressive who actually wrote the book (but does not get to sign it) need 300 plus pages for her nostrum.

If you are wondering what you will be missing by not reading the book, here’s part of a review by Larry Thornberry at the American Spectator.

Leftists wishing a complete treatment of progressive chants, tics, talking points, sacraments, secret handshakes, and calamitous policies can find them in For the Next Generation, a tedious and repetitious 300-page walk through the entire catalogue of leftist delusions. Every failed idea since Rousseau is here lovingly lifted up as part of the path to an American paradise.

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Interesting – I didn’t realize the percentages were THAT large:

A new study of how criminals vote found that most convicts register Democratic, a key reason in why liberal lawmakers and governors are eager for them to get back into the voting booth after their release.

“Democrats would benefit from additional ex-felon participation,” said the authoritative study in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

The authors, professors from the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, found that in some states, felons register Democratic by more than six-to-one. In New York, for example, 61.5 percent of convicts are Democrats, just 9 percent Republican. They also cited a study that found 73 percent of convicts who turn out for presidential elections would vote Democrat.

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“What is the base supposed to think when they see Republicans taking money from Democrats to use in Republican primaries?”

Or, as the phrase goes that I’ve been using: the Jr. Partners of the Democrats.  It is no secret that the Establishment Republicans, as shown by Karl Rove’s willingness to spend millions to defeat conservatives (aka TEA Party) that actually believe in the Constitution and the Party Platform.  Power is addictive and we see that on both sides of the aisles.  How often have we seen those trying to move the country down to its political roots be attacked by long term pols that seemingly have more regard for themselves and their butts in the seat rather than taking the hard stances and showing the willingness to say “no more” to the overregulating, freedom snuffing Welfare State?

How often do we see “our side” willing to work with the Socialists and move that Overton Window just that next incremental move Leftward?  As long as they get to play with the Levers of Power – when permitted, I guess.  And here is a great example of Republicans acting as “the useful idiots” for others that wish to knock them off  later- but willing to take out TEA Party types first:

Guess Who’s Funding the Republican Civil War

Labor unions. And they’re doing it through a pro-business Republican PAC.

The Republican Main Street Partnership has emerged as an outspoken, deep-pocketed player in pro-business GOP plans to beat back tea-party challengers next year. But the group’s new super PAC has an unexpected source for its seed money: labor unions.

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In late December the Nashua Telegraph and Kevin Landrigan reported on the dual residency of once and no longer candidate for New Hampshire Governor, Chuck Rolecek.  The ‘investigation’ pointed out residency rules in South Carolina required to take advantage of certain property tax benefits in that state.   Drivers licenses, that sort of thing.  it was quirte detailed, at least as parroted by the Union Leader.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if the Telegraph (or any media in NH) applied the same diligence used in the Rolecek investigation (regarding matters of residency and voter registration) to the dozens of operatives, students, OFA flacks (see also Democrat voters) who helicoptered in to vote for Democrats in NH in 2012 (or previous years)–many voting from the homes of prominent Democrats, State Party officials, Nashua Candidates for the NH House, or state employees at the AG’s office–and then left?

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“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”  —Mark Twain

  New Jersey has some of the toughest gun laws in America. Citizens in New Jersey are virtually unarmed. Issuance of licenses or permits to carry a pistol concealed are the exception, not the rule. In order to do so, one must have a compelling reason to do so.

Jonathan  Wheeler and George Daudelin, both  retirees from the Newark Fire Department’s Arson Investigation Unit applied to the New Jersey State Police for a special permit authorizing them to carry handguns. Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:3 a

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Medicaid Fraud is a problem.  Expanding Medicaid in NH poses the risk and likely increase in fraud and the invertible burden of its costs, which will ultimately be borne by NH Taxpayers no matter how either party spins it.

The ability of the bureaucracy to curtail fraud is limited, or it would never have become a problem in the first place, and as the program expands and contorts compliance becomes an expensive problem.  That is to say, expensive to comply, and expensive to track down, identify, and prosecute fraud effectively.

Seeing as the NH AG’s office is not known for its diligence in the pursuit of fraud, except for one-off timely sound bites meant to give the appearance of enforcement,  is it anything other than a matter of convenience that the New Hampshire Attorney General has just released an indictment against a New Hampshire Dentist accused of Medicaid Fraud?

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