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…then why is the average duration of unemployment in this country close to an all-time record high?
With six million less jobs, thanks to Obama’s so-called recovery policies, should we be surprised that the average duration of unemployment is at or near a record high? If you pollute the employment market, making it inhospitable to job creation–lets call it Obamagenic Employment Cooling–you have fertilized the field for long term despair.
(Full size Graph on the jump.)
GOP Rep. John Hikel has sponsored a bill that will allow bottled spirits of all types to be sold in markets, grocery stores, convenience stores, and other outlets. This change in the law will obviously benefit the free market and consumers in New Hampshire, but it will also result in the creation of lots of jobs, and lots more work for truckers, delivery people, stockers, etc. A Commerce Committee hearing will be held this coming Tuesday, February 7th, at 2:15 p.m. in Room 302 of the Legislative Office Building in Concord. You should be there and testify in FAVOR of the bill.
But wait! There’s a problem! To understand it, consider the famous picture above. You thought it was a raucous party of drunks in Concord, right? What might result if we allow expanded consumer choice and convenience in New Hampshire, and pass Rep. Hikel’s bill? No, you idiot. Read on to find out what the real problem will be….
In celebration of this historic occasion, having gone 1000 days without our Democrat majority Government passing a budget, we give you, The Heritage Foundation’s “1000 Days.”
This started as a comment to Skips remarks on Neal Kurks bill HB 1658: ‘An act limiting Financial Assistance for mothers who have additional children while on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). As usual, a few off the cuff remark exceeded the medium so I have promoted them here–and then some.
It should be interesting to see if the Democrats try to frame Rep Kurk, the sole sponsor of HB 1658, as another Republican Extremist. Ideologically he is a GOP moderate, his NHHRA ratings put him near the RINO category, and if anything he fits the Democrats Free Stater legislative profile (another left wing narrative) more than anything.
But he has gotten a 100% rating from NARAL and as far as I can tell supports wide open access to contraceptives. So he’s all in on reproductive freedom, and fully embraces the lefts doctrine, right up to the point where it starts to cost taxpayers buckets of money–and then it stops. With great freedom comes great responsibility. Rep Kurk understands that sometimes people need help, but that we are not meant to be slaves to other peoples freedoms, including so called reproductive freedoms, and to that end we have HB 1658.
I have a question for progressives. If a fetus is just a lump of tissue, isn’t abortion just another form of plastic surgery?
You can’t even find a Democrat willing to admit the procedure is not elective. It’s woman’s choice, yes?
And if you’ve ever gotten an unwanted earful from some feminis, going on about what pregnancy can do to a woman’s body, appearance is a consideration. That makes it cosmetic, yes?
So if abortion is the elective, cosmetic, removal of unwanted tissue, and not the termination of a human life, why doesn’t the liberal super-state demand the wholesale taxpayer funding of liposuction, nose jobs, and breast implants?
Sorry, trick question. If you are a public school teacher in Buffalo New York, boob jobs are already covered by taxpayer dollars.
I suppose you’ll want some context for that headline. Back in December (12/9/2011) I explained why New Hampshire should continue lowering tobacco taxes. I suggested we adopt some kind of schedule by which we would sunset tobacco taxes over the next decade based of the long term decline in sales. Why, after all, would you risk the states ability to invest in anything, including the left’s rhetorical “neediest residents in their most desperate hours (or something),” using an unreliable source of revenue in decline?
OK, what I actually said was
“Only a progressive zipper-head would rely on more revenue from something they want to get rid of. Increasing the tax on a declining market will only accelerate the unreliability of the revenue stream. That creates the opportunity for bigger budget holes that must then be filled on the fly.”
As if by magic, Sylvia Larsen, Democrat super-minoirty leader of the New Hampshire State Senate, in the face of declining unit sales, as fewer people smoke, after a decades long trend indicating that tobacco purchases will likely continue to decrease in the future, thinks we should increase our reliance on cigarette taxes in New Hampshire.
Zipper head. (doofus, goofball, goober, dunderhead, maroon, doh!) see note#2 below
One truth at a time! Here are the latest corrections, on…
All Democrats have narratives. New Hampshire Democrats are no different. The typical left wing narrative is designed to brain wash you by using the media to repeat the latest chest-beating tantrum, using sound bites, puff pieces, editorials, and press releases, to create a long term perception disguised as truth. Did I mention that New Hampshire Democrats are no different?
There is a new narrative in New Hampshire. This narrative infers that, despite the Democrats own treacherous policy record they are still a better gamble than those other people who are just plain scary. Really scary. Extremists. Those… Free Staters.
There are at least ten Democrats, six of them US Senators, who support the Keystone XL pipeline (List on the jump). Private investment, jobs, commerce, property taxes, and did we say jobs?
How about millions of barrels per day of that black stuff we still have to buy coming from Canada, a chance to get less from countries like Venezuela?
US Refineries will convert that into fuels like Gasoline of which we are a net exporter. No interest in meeting global demand with US manufacturing?
What about Heating oil prices ? These are always a big concern in New Hampshire.
Where stands Jeanne Shaheen? I still don’t know.
“Voter Fraud is an accepted way of winning elections here…”—Unnamed Democratic Election Worker “This is an ongoing scheme and it occurs on both sides of the aisle…What appears as a huge conspiracy to non-political persons is really a normal political tactic.” — Democratic City Councilor Anthony Defiglio to NY State Police. http://youtu.be/Mc51hyhp33o Glad there’s no voter … Read more
From Jonah Goldberg yesterday, over at NRO’s The Corner. Remember When The Tea Party Threw Smoke Bombs At the White House? Neither do I. The Secret Service was responding Tuesday night to an escalating protest that may have involved one or more smoke bombs being thrown over the White House fence. I know Suckley and … Read more
The New Hampshire Dead People party (NHDP) has made voter fraud easy so they could commit it at will while continuing to insist there is none. And proof is not proof. Getting a ballot without even a challenge is not an example of how easy it is to ….get a ballot without being challenged.
Another example of that is sign stealing, which also violates election law, unless you are the husband of a Democrat NH State Senator, captured on film, in the act of stealing campaign signs. We don’t have voter fraud, even when we have it. So we must not have sign stealing democrats either. But we do. (Geoff Wetrosky…you are on deck buddy–Geoff came from out of state to steal signs and votes, while living in then NHDP Chairman Kathy Sullivan’s house, and no one was prosecuted for that either.)
So since no one ever get’s prosecuted, I’d like to celebrate voter fraud-deniers awareness month with another example of left wing disregard for election law. Originally posted in November 2010, it’s ‘Ray Buckley’s Norman Rockwell’…
“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.” —Marshall McLuhan
Opponents of Voter ID laws argue the laws stifle turnout among students, poor people and minorities, who are more likely to vote for Democrats but might lack government-issued IDs, such as driver’s licenses and passports. And that is a totally flawed notion.
Why is that notion so flawed? Simple. Let us look first at the largest demographic in the U.S. who is most likely to seek out public assistance of any kind. In doing so, lets look at a program or two that are universally recognized:
The Solyndra Scam continues to develop and Hot Air has the dropon the latest document dump from the White House. That’s Ed Morrissey’s headline up there. And this is all just another political cover up courtesy of the Democrat party.
The Obama administration pressured Solyndra to keep quiet about impending layoffs until after the November 2010 election and we have this nifty little paper trail to prove it.
The New Hampshire Democrat Party and democrat legislators everywhere, in association with Granite State progress, Granite State Fair Tax Coalition, the UCC, NHCC, and every other so-called by-partisan-but-in-reality-left-wing-front-group pretending there are no problems with vote fraud in New Hampshire, present a new made for fraud miniseries….The Voting Dead. Watch for it…at every future election in … Read more
All we’ve heard from Occupy Wall Street and their enablers in the Progressive / Democrat camps (and the MSM that supports them all) is how we all hate the “growing income inequality gap” here in the US. Really? Look at this chart from Gallup. So, as I have learned to read charts like this … Read more
Rather than risk losing thousands of votes in college towns all over the state–votes cast by propagandized out of state residents to keep tax and spend democrats in office–standard left wing rhetoric has always demanded that any evidence of holes in the voting process be met with screaming at the sky, attacking opponents, crying about … Read more
I got a Direct Message from New Hampshire Democrat Party Propaganda Minister Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein last night. I guess Jersey Shore got himself a new gig. He’s promoting weight loss programs on Twitter now. This is not much different from his previous job helping State government lighten your wallet.
Rumor has it New Hampshire Democrats are assuring their candidates a guaranteed victory in November thanks to this Get Out The Vote strategy.
The Project Veritas punking of the gaping holes in New Hampshire’s voting process is priceless. If you missed it, they used the names of dead people to get ballots in this weeks First in the nation NH primary and posted the video of that on-line. It demonstrated that vote stealing is not just possible, it is as easy as many of us have claimed for years, and happened just months after Governor Lynch vetoed a voter ID measure in which he claimed…
There is no voter fraud problem in New Hampshire. We already have strong elections laws that are effective in regulating our elections.