Or is this the REAL projection?  We’ve heard for weeks (Er, months?  Years?) that Republicans, Conservatives, TEA Partiers, Constitutionalists, or Libertarians are the extremists, the terrorists, the people with suicide vests strapped to their chests (while clinging to their religion and guns?)….you know the litany.  In all cases, just trying to subtract even one single dollar from any Government budget brings out this talk that we are anti-Government, we’re Anarchists…and with any diminution of Government, the litany of hating the poor, hating kids, hating illegal aliens, hating education, hating the hungry, hating….need I really say more?

That’s what we were told during this shutdown, that the wrong decisions by Republicans were being be felt by the most vulnerable as Government had to shutdown.  Shutdown?  We really ended up with a SlimDown as only 17% of the Feds actually did stop.  And we got MORE expenses as the stuff that got shutdown was aimed at hurting the public in hopes of turning the public against those evil Republicans who took the “nice” things away.  Instead we saw the UGLY face of a Government grown too large to the point of having little remorse over targeting those they serve.  This just over the Slimdown.  And now with the specter of the Debt Ceiling floating onto the stage, what is it that the Administration is willing to go after first?  Yeah – guess who gets the haircut first? (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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Just like Grokster Steve’s post on the Nashua Elementary School’s continuing the sissification of American (“ooh, someone might get hurt!!!”), we see someone else saying “TOO MUCH RISK – you can’t do that!”.

Tell me, which sport or activity do you think (there are three) are those that the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, & Nutrition are SO dangerous for kids that they demanded that the US Postal Service scrap the entire stamp run?   Seriously?

Now remember, this is not a school setting – there are no playgrounds involved.  No real people, either.  Cartoon figures, really (and they even hide the ‘toons innocense  by blanking out their faces even).  I looked at all of those activities and remembered back many years (and pounds) ago and went “I did them all”!  OK, not so much the skateboard as the poly wheels hadn’t yet been invented and those boards road rough – but I did a lot of roller skating instead.

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Consistency yields Trust yields Votes.  Simple, eh?  While I’ve been saying this for a while as to the disaffection of voters for the Republican Party, it doesn’t seem to be getting traction.  That is, at least in Republican circles.  Rarely do I even hear this idea mentioned – only that “We have to win (even if we just suck less than Dems)” seems to be the mantra.  Lots of extraneous stuff, lots of “strategic” reasoning, lots on tactics, but not much on re-establishing Trust. Sad, that.  All it takes is “walk the talk”; tell us what you really believe, tell us what you will actually do.  Then the hard part – just do it.  Don’t give us the “shuffle” and “it’s complicated”.  We expected you to play this all out in your head and in your heart BEFORE you got elected.  What are the values that you said you had – just do it.

Why is this so hard?  No, I wasn’t in DC and no, I wasn’t in Concord (NH, the state capital) – just in my little hamlet.  I was accused, all the time, of having an agenda – and that pleased me.  Why?  I had three principles while on my hamlet’s Budget Committee:

• It ain’t my money but spend it like it was mine
• Government growth should NEVER outstrip that of the Civil Society that pays for it
• It ain’t my money

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If it is not “terrorism, or extremism” for the government to “reduce” our Household budgets when they come to take their taxes why is it “terrorism or extremism” when we simply ask the government to stop reducing our budgets by reducing theirs?

It is our property first.   If we do not earn it so that they can take it, the government would cease to exist.

This same government that calls us extremists and terrorists uses intimidation and the threat of force and/or imprisonment to take our property.   They reduce our budgets at will through taxes, fees, and monitory policy that devalues our incomes or regulations that increase the costs of goods or services, typically both.  That is not terrorism or extremism but if we stand up or gather to speak against this path toward ruin we are branded as terrorists and extremists.

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I’ve been prodding the left to submit state level bills on enhancing background checks—we already have them so any more would be “enhancing” the ones we have–and we finally have some Democrats stepping up to the plate.

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Point of order on the “shutdown”. So we’ve heard the denominator of the shutdown produces 83% (or 87% somewhere in there) of the gov that’s shutdown.  So, what comprises that denominator? What departments, agencies, committees does that entail, really. Well, Matt Walsh compiled a partial list from USA.GOV. Take a look below.  But if you’re going to actually read the entire list and ponder each item’s purpose, I suggest a nice Maduro Toro Grande, with an adult beverage of choice, because it will take awhile.  And naturally, you’ll ask yourself, “What the hell? What’s that for?  This is what the Democrats want to completely fund ad infinitum?!”

You don’t think the government is too big? Here’s a partial list of federal departments and agencies, courtesy of USA.GOV. This list doesn’t tell anywhere close to the full story. It doesn’t include all of the various redundant divisions, offices, foundations, services and institutes. And it doesn’t include all of the overlapping state and local agencies. But it does include:

AbilityOne Commission
Access Board
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration for Native Americans
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Administration on Developmental Disabilities
Administrative Conference of the United States
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
African Development Foundation
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Agency for International Development (USAID)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Agricultural Marketing Service

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