If we get stuck with Obamacare who will get the machine that goes “Ping”?

Guest post by Leigh MacNeil:

Obamacare is the largest tax increase in American history; taxes that will kill jobs and destroy our economy.   Did you know that Religious Objectors, Illegal Aliens, Prisoners, Members of Indian Tribes, Hardship Cases (determined by HHS) and those earning less than the poverty line are exempt from these taxes?  

  • How do we expect to maintain service levels while giving 30 million plus people most of which choose not to be insured free healthcare?  
  • How can the government provide these services on the backs of tax payers and not see a negative impact both on the system and the economy?  

You don’t need to be some well-to-do economic genius to see that this is a bad idea.   

Let’s start with the mandates or better yet the income surtaxes: An adult will be taxed 2.5% of his or her adjusted gross income and we will be penalized with if we do not comply with the mandate to have health insurance.  That alone makes this legislation illegal and warrant repeal.

How about the quality of service we will see when 40% of the medical doctors leave the profession due to the monetary constraints and piles of red tape that come with this monstrosity?  That’s a recipe for…

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Notable Quote – Ronald Reagan (of course!)

A government can’t control the economy without controlling people.  And [America’s Founding Fathers] knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. – Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing (H/T: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism, Kevin Williamson)

GrokTalk! for Saturday January 15 th 2011

It’s 120 minutes of Live Streaming local and National News you could ONLY get from GraniteGrok.com   This week… 9am to 11am EST NRO Editor Kevin Williamson, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide To Socialism will be our guest Jordan Ulery candidate for NH GOP National Committeeman calls in And Jim Bender talks to Skip … Read more

Repeal The “Evergreed” Law

The Evergreed law screws taxpayers. It gives automatic wage and benefit increases based on the last approved contract removing any incentive on the part of the unions to negotiate in good faith with a town or city unless it thinks or knows it can do better than the contract it already has.

Tweets in my ear – more incoming on the NH GOP Chair

Well, I got my "I’m endorsing Juliana Bergeron Letter" from Gov. Sununu – but I feel SO left out!   It seems that a number of voting Members (of the NH GOP State Committee) are getting "personal" calls from either Ms. Bergeron or the Guv.  Problem is, unlike Jack who NOT ONCE has spoken ill … Read more

A report on Rick Santorum

Guest post by Robert Jursik who covered Ovide Lamontagne’s Granite Oath series of speakers this past Tuesday night.  The featured speaker was Rick Santorum, former Senator from PA.

Granite staters are renowned for our caustic dismissal of snow storms, yet we are not foolish about them either. With a massive one only hours away, we would not travel blithely beyond our homes – certainly not for politics and most certainly not for wine and cheese. Yet, there we were, nearly 200 of us, squeezed elbow-to-elbow into the Lamontagne family home in Manchester for a purpose too great for mere snow to deter: the first event of Ovide’s Granite Oath PAC’s Presidential Series – a reception for former US Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

Santorum has started out of the gate early for a presumed Presidential candidacy. While media heavyweights like Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin carefully compose op/ed pieces from the comfort of their warm homes, Santorum is here shaking hands, learning names and faces, and recruiting serious people around him to make a presumed candidacy sing. His attendance with Ovide this evening was a natural harmony of two generationally-close men with nearly identical belief systems: Catholic, conservative, Republican, family-oriented, ardently pro-life and strongly supportive of both the Constitution and national security – a combination particularly attractive to the conservative Republican audience attending tonight.

And what an audience! Guests arrived from nearly every corner of the state, a potent mix of veteran party leadership, rank-and-file activists, curious media personalities looking for news, every Lamontagne relative within a 50-mile radius, free cheese-and-cracker hounds (like me), and – perhaps most importantly – campaign professionals gauging Santorum’s value as a candidate for whom they might one day work. Already, the formidable Mike Biundo, still radiant from his management of the hugely-successful Guinta congressional campaign, has signed on to manage Santorum’s America’s Foundation PAC in New Hampshire – a telling endorsement from him of Santorum’s electoral capability. Another campaign veteran who had only recently managed a US Senate bid described Santorum as “on his short list” of Presidential aspirants. Here in this house, crammed as it was like a Republican sardine can, was assembled the grand collection of the best conservative political architects in the state, presented with Presidential Job Applicant “Santorum” – and they were interested.

Should they be? Frankly,…

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“…it was like a spaghetti bowl…”

No, was not at TMEW’s most favorite restaurant (Olive Garden) where that spaghetti bowl appears, it is from here: How much federal money, all told, does NPR receive? Lamborn doesn’t know. "The funding is so convoluted and opaque," he says. "We asked the Congressional Research Service to look at the books, and a senior analyst … Read more

Scale and Perspective are Everything

Back in 2009, President Obama announced that he would be finding ways to cut $100 Million from the Federal Budget (did this ever happen? haha…).  Later, after some scoffing at this wimpy, meaningless number, he proposed cuts of $17B.  While this is an older story, I would like all of the Republicans in Congress (just forget about most of the Democrats) to watch these short clips, and realize just HOW MUCH cutting they need to do to make any real difference…as we approach the debt-limit increase debate.

Scary stuff when you look at something like this in its proper perspective. Do you all realize how much serious trouble we are in as a Nation?

Obama’s $100M cuts

More great perspectives from “10000 Pennies”, after the jump…

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Budget Committee season comes to a close – tonite

One more official night for the Budget season….Public Hearing on the School Board budget was Tuesday and the Town Budget one is tonight.  Then my elected responsibility is done for the year.  At the last regular meeting, I sorta tied things up for a bunch of people who might have thought it was going to … Read more

Abhorrent? Really? You really want to know what is abhorrent?

From the Concord Monitor: A few days after the New Hampshire Legislature, led by the newly-elected Republican majority, decided in its wisdom to allow guns into our State House, a U.S. congresswoman and her supporters are gunned down by a clearly deranged person who had much too easy access to guns. I do not share … Read more

Projection

This can’t be stated often enough, particularly when the dreamers on the left imagine tragedy to excuse their second amendment positions–liberals must be afraid of gun owners because the people who think like liberals are simply too unhinged to be trusted with firearms.

Abortion

Lest we forget what is happening to us: Witness to atrocity.

The vile, disgusting, lying, leftist Mainstream Media

It’s difficult to adequately describe their base mendacity. Not to mention their spewing unhinged hatred. I’m glad they are dying, from the big newspapers like the New York Times to the TV networks like CBS and NBC. America will be better off without the lies, bias, and incessant hatred of the mainstream media, all deployed for decades in … Read more

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