Heritage (The Foundry) has an infographic on the Obama budget. The infographic is on the jump–waaaaayyyyyyyy….too big for the front page.
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Here is a review of the Obama budget from Heritage. Grab a beer or two, six, quarter-barrel….this budget is crlpllphfffff.
The review is a long read.
But there is bi-partisan agreement; no one likes this budget. Not left, not right. It may be worse than his previous budget, as hard as that is to believe -all on purpose so that we can live under continuing resolutions forever–that’s how I see it.
There will, of course, be those who give the polite golf-clap and force themselves to smile about it the way parents smile and clap when the 4th grade orchestra gives its best rendition of the Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord and 2 chamber orchestras, by Elliott Carter.
Carter’s work and Obama’s share a common descriptor, by the way — ‘dense.’ I’ll let you parse the connotations over that quarter-barrel.
I get emails with transcripts to the Rush Limbaugh show which I rarely look at but this caught my eye. Obama’s budget, the White House Budget, is using something called chained CPI, and Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren is upset about that. She is upset because it could result in her brother getting less in Social Security from the government, which he relies on to live.
Senator Warren has a net worth of over 14 million dollars and she’s upset because Obama’s budget gimmick might cut into the $13,200.00 per year her brother has to get by on. Compassionate Democrat Millionaire Senator, brother lives on $13,200 from taxpayers.
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House Republican Leaders Comment on Passage of Fiscally Irresponsible Budget
CONCORD – House Republican Leader Gene Chandler (R-Bartlett) and Ranking Republican on the House Finance Committee, Rep. Neal Kurk (R-Weare), offered the following comments in reaction to the passage of HB1 and HB2, the bills dealing with the State budget.
Rep. Gene Chandler (R-Bartlett), House Republican Leader
“When 40,000 people in our State are looking for work, this budget will squeeze an additional $39 million out of our small businesses that they would have otherwise been able to reinvest to grow and create jobs. When incomes are stagnant, this budget raises the gas tax, tobacco taxes and down shifts costs that will raise property taxes. When our roads and bridges need attention, this budget diverts and additional $27 million from the highway fund to other agencies. When our economy is struggling to grow at 2% per year, this budget grows government by more than 5% per year. It’s not a logical plan to grow our economy.”
Fresh off his decisive 37 vote special election win in Manchester on March 19th, Democrat Bill O’Neil has already made a mark in Concord. He’s gone on the record to state, unequivocably, that there are no tax increases in the Democrats new House budget. (He’s only wrong by 263 million dollars.) Oh yeah. Doing Ward … Read more
“The choice is not between the governor’s budget and a better plan,” said Scott McGilvray, NEA New Hampshire’s president. “The choice is between Gov. Hassan’s budget, and one that slashes funding to our university system and shifts costs to already overburdened taxpayers ….” Easy for Mr. McGilvray to say as, according to GuideStar.org, NEA’s past … Read more
I know what you were thinking while you were paying almost four dollars a gallon for gas, or looking at your utility or cable bill, or thinking about how much more it costs to do the grocery shopping these days. You were thinking, “Hey, times are so good, lets grow the size of the state government by 16%!”
You must have said that because someone in Concord seems to think they heard you say it.
What? You weren’t thinking that? Well you’d best get in touch with your legislator and tell them because the Democrat majority House is preparing to vote on a budget that will make your state government cost you 16% more.
Sorry. That should read….Obama Admin Releases 500 Million dollars for the FAA PA. Not Pennsylvania, the Palestinian Authority. Ben Shapiro reports that the Obamadministration has agreed to allow half a billion dollars to flow into the hands of Mahmoud Hamas Abbas. So screw you air traffic controllers, park rangers, and border agents everywhere. You Head-Start kids … Read more
To spend more, or not to spend more? That was the question in the town of Grafton
Calvin Coolidge, President from 1923 through 1928, was a famous skinflint from Vermont. He didn’t believe in today’s political-class sport of incessant taxing and spending to win elections (Grokster Steve MacDonald has recently highlighted this excellent president HERE). Coolidge was so adept at refusing the pigs at the political trough in his time that he insisted that “government employees were issued one pencil at a time, and the government purchased lighter, less expensive paper. The Weather Bureau stopped sending out postcard forecasts, since citizens now turned to their newspapers for that information; the post office made bags with new, cheaper material, and government-wide red tape was replaced with simple white string.” (This and much more is in a book review online at the City Journal about Amity Shlaes’ new biography entitled, simply, Coolidge.)
What does all this have to do with political piggery and push-back from small-government activists in the small town of Grafton, New Hampshire? I’ll tell you….
Well, these should have gone with the “intro” post, but that’s OK – blogging means never having to recycle pixels if you don’t want to. The Vesta Roy is a training program for Republican women and given that the Belknap County Convention just finished setting up its budget (along with cry baby Commissioners), NH State Rep Frank Tilton gave the attendees an update.
We’ve been warned of tainted food as the FDA furloughs workers, thinning ranks as border agents get let go, and fewer Federal prosecutors, and don’t forget about those FAA employees that have to be let go. So why, in the age of sequesteria, has the Federal Government posted job opening to fill 2,596 positions in just the past ten days? … Read more
Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, the Democrat parties “narrative mule” for congressional district one in New Hampshire, has a link on her official “I’m Your Congresswoman!”Facebook page. Shea-Porter’s status update simply says “Control towers at airports such as Manchester’s could be left unstaffed by budget cuts.”
Unstaffed! Holy Air traffic controller-less tower Batman!
The link provided with this ‘news’ leads to a story at NECN about how the airport tower in Manchester, New Hampshire is on the list of candidates in New England that could lose it’s midnight shift as a result of some $600 million dollars in cuts to the FAA budget as a result of Barack Obama’s sequester. That would be the sequester that the White house and Democrats arm-twisted the House into passing (with Democrat support), and has since decided to blame them for in its entirety.
Carol, the dutiful Democrat sheep that she is, has happily toed the assigned narrative without regard to the veracity of its claims, but someone might want to tell her a few things about how much DOT, and more specifically the FAA, requests annually in its budget, and how much of that massive sum gets wasted on what the FAA itself calls “low priority spending.”
AFP-NH’s Greg Moore observed recently that NH Governor Maggie Hassan’s Budget is bad for growth and and burdens small businesses.
Hassan spokesman Marc Goldberg responded, “The governor’s balanced budget proposal begins restoring critical investments in the priorities needed to create good jobs and build a more innovative economic future, such as higher education, economic development, mental health and public safety.
So if we dump more taxpayer money into a University system that, according to Democrats, consistently creates graduates who then leave the state–no matter how much money they spent on the university system, spend more money on the idea that the government taking more money from business owners knows best how to attract and grow business, and add more cops and state-payroll therapists, the Granite State will leap forward from the dark ages of the Republican Majority.
All this does is add state employees, state payroll, dues paying union members, and expands the budget. Maybe they are great jobs “for favoring elected Democrats” but it’s our money.
Tax Cuts: Money you earned legally that the Democrats did not take from you (yet). Example. You earn $1000.00 dollars. The government takes $200.00, but it could have taken $500.00. In this example, the Democrats gave you a $300.00 dollar tax cut. (They actually gave you a 500.00 tax cut because none of that money is really … Read more
I didn’t go to any of the Belknap County budget meetings this year – except for this last one. I almost didn’t go to this one – a West Coast customer called so I didn’t even get out of the house until a half hour after the meeting started. But you know, I remembered one … Read more
Democrats say the darnedest things. Take NH House Rep Ruth Gulick (D- Aesop’s Fables), whom Skip recorded at a recent Belknap county budget meeting. Ruth shared a little morality tale with those present, with regard to budgets and responsibility.
In Ruth’s version the county taxpayers have a moral responsibility to the employees whom they pay. That responsibility includes ensuring that the employees continue to enjoy the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed, regardless of any other circumstances. Put simply; she objects to taxpayers (or any of their elected representatives) asking those employees to pay more for their own benefits.
Not a surprise coming from a Democrat, until you hear how she went about it.
As with many towns, the Counties around New Hampshire are also constructing their budgets for the upcoming fiscal year. Here in Belknap, two Republicans (John Thomas and Steve Nedeau) and a Democrat (Ed Philpot) crafted a budget that would raise the County’s portion of the property tax by approximately 9% – this in a time still beset economically with rising taxes at the State level (certainly, the Democrats are already hard at work doing that in Concord), rising taxes at the Federal Level (again, thank you Democrats), and the people looking at their thinning wallets every time they fill up their cars and see how few bags of groceries are bought for $25, $50, or $100 (inflation – the hidden government tax on us all). However, the County Convention (the 18 elected NH House Representatives from all of the districts in Belknap County) has the final authority over that budget – and new Conservative leadership elected to head that Convention (led by the Chair Collete Worseman) reduced that percentage to 0.3%. What did it take?
Simple – Leadership, a “say what you mean, do what you say” attitude. A political courage to go against the grain of those that have no problem in spending other peoples’ money, the rent-seekers called social services that live at the teat of Government and have transformed themselves from being charities to mere outgrowths of that Government (or many as many levels and parts of Government they can latch onto), and the biggest Special Interest of all – Government itself. Sticking to ones guns and Conservative values. A willingness to put themselves between the hard working taxpayers and those that would spend their money by ensuring that essential services would be present – but not extraneous expenditures or “pet ideas”.
Government above people. The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen.
Here is the final vote:
The full meeting (chopped into approximately 15 minute chunks each) after the jump. And yes, there were heated words said, for not only has this been about Dollars but also about Power and Political Turf.
Castration? You would think so to hear the rhetoric and demagoguery, but no. (Did you happen to notice ‘Dem’ at the beginning of Demagoguery?) Uh-huh, It’s true.
Give back a few pennies on the dollar and the Left insists the world could end. Sounds like lousy management to me. Well, OK
But why is the Federal Government still hiring people for these job
President Obama and the fawning mainstream media want you to think that the “sequester” and the harsh “sequester” cuts are being forced on him by others. These are deliberate falsehoods.
The “sequester” was President Obama’s idea to pretend concern, in anticipation of his re-election campaign, for our huge deficits by agreeing to future (small, less than 3%) spending cuts.
Are the drastic cuts that President Obama chooses to make today the ones he envisioned when he proposed the “sequester”? Or, when he promised to veto any attempt to avoid it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crt5J3XM_zk)? If yes, then the “sequester” was a bad idea. If he envisioned less severe cuts, he should implement those cuts now.
Every businessman and family can handle a 3 percent budget cut without cutting essential services, why can’t President Obama? Just eliminating the $125 billion that Obama’s GAO says is WASTED annually exceeds the “sequester’s” savings. Or, Obama could reduce the $50 to $100 billion in annual Medicare and Medicaid fraud. He could cut less important services and rein in excessively expensive programs. President Obama refuses to do any of these.
