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What does it take to kill a national free market economy?

About 100 years of socialist economics combined with institution of a welfare state appears like enough to do it. Start with the wannabe dictator, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and don’t repeal the damage done during his reign. Then have both Democrats and Republicans build upon and expand the damage whenever they’re in power. Finally, give the final push to collapse the economy. Then declare "a state of emergency" as elections approach….

Hey, I’m not saying it WILL happen. I’m just making the observation that this is how it COULD happen.

Or "might" happen.

This from the Washington Examiner, which publishes in the belly of the beast in Washington, DC:

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I’d rather have the suit AND the window

The guy we need to be watchful for and of is not just the guy that throws the physical brick through the window – but the regulatory and legal bricks instead: (H/T: NewsBusters)

So, Obama says he won’t give the keys back to the Republicans? Seems like Joe America is going to TAKE them away from him!

Well, this ain’t warmin’ the cockles of the Lefty hearts: the results of a poll done by uber-Dem James Carville.

Obama isn’t liking this phrase anymore: "It’s the economy, stupid!"

(H/T: Hot Air) 

Nor are these data points going to help the Progressive partying spirit (polling from Pajamas Media):

54% – General public supporting TEA Party Movement

31% – self-identified DEMOCRATS supporting the TEA Party Movement

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Given your current knowledge of the Tea Party Movement and their positions on the issues, would you say that you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose the Tea Party Movement?

27% Strongly support
27% Somewhat support
13% Somewhat oppose
28% Strongly oppose
5% Not sure

Have you publicly shown support for the Tea Party Movement by speaking openly about it or is your support for the Tea Party Movement a private matter?

36% You publicly support the Tea Party Movement
52% You support the Tea Party Movement privately
12% Not sure

Do you consider yourself…

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Notable Quote – Coyote Blogger

I understand that this is exactly what the Left is shooting for – an environment where the competent have no advantage over the incompetent.  If employers are resorting to FICO scores, it just demonstrates how all the other reasonable avenues of obtaining information have been closed to them. The only saving grace in this country … Read more

A.D.D.D (Revisited)

Sing...Sing a song....Sing out loud....
 
[[Given the recent noise from progressives about unemployment extensions (not just the payments but the joblessness) I thought I’d revisit a post I wrote back in March, the last time we went through this—because to be honest, it still applies.]]
 
 
A.D.D.D
 
There’s this liberal talking point, it’s spin actually, that anyone who does not disown Jim Bunning is an obstructionist.  It is founded on the premise that the Senator was against extending unemployment benefits.  The meme therefore goes; if you do not scold Jim Bunning you hate people who are unemployed and should burn in hell.

This is a natural extension of all the other mutually exclusive applications of association that elitist, finger-wagging, dimwitted, left wing spin doctors and their blindfolded parrot-like familiars shout from the rooftops of foreclosed homes.  It’s the same one that makes all white, heterosexual Christian, men, racist -globalist- misogynistic robber barons, and lets liberals try to escape the hypocrisy of ignoring the behavior of violent liberal bigots and hate mongers while whining about right wing complicity with all the winsome air of finger nails following Obama’s declining popularity down to the bottom of the chalkboard.

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Carol-(S)Care

 

Carol-Care Meets RealityIndependent voices might have some expectation of doing independent things.  Things like reading legislation or accessing resources outside the ones the people desperately selling a bill want you to stick to.  That kind of open mindedness would go a long way to demonstrating integrity and responsibility.  Or you could be Carol Shea Porter. 

Carol sold Health Care reform as instructed.  She shifted gears as instructed, spun when asked, and followed the talking points all the way to the bitter end like a clumsy dancer following on the fly choreography.

But now that the reality of what she has done is upon us, it sure would have been nice to have an independent voice instead Carol Shea-Porter.

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From Russia with love?

From the English language version of the Russian newspaper, Pravda, of all places…pick your favorite! (I admit…I’m a fan of #48 and the SWAT teams who protect us all.)

Carol Is Still Batting .980

Carol “98%” Shea Porter surprised several people when she offered to co-sponsor HR 1207, the Audit the Fed Resolution.  The bill, sponsored by Republican Ron Paul would require an audit of the not so independent “independent” central bank. 

The hobgoblins who run the Fed were not interested in an audit for obvious reasons.  As the manipulators of monetary policy they were and are responsible for trying to manage the boom bust cycle or more appropriately (and more likely) causing it. But they were still part of the government, so for Carol to step up and make even a token gesture was unexpected. 

Or was it? 

 

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The End Of The Road

Hat in hand, governor Lynch is looking for the feds to bail him out of the accumulated disaster of his administration. On the matter of extending federal unemployment benefits (from this morning’s Union Leader) the governor was emphatic.

Failure to do so (to extend federal benefits) will jeopardize the economic progress we’ve been making, Lynch said, warning that roughly 20,000 people in the state could run out of benefits in the next four months. Next week alone, 938 people will lose their benefits, he said.

Progress?

You have so mismanaged your stewardship of the state budget, been so beholden to years of irresponsible legislative spending and grossly inaccurate revenue projections, that we are incapable of finding even a few million dollars anywhere in our own state of New Hampshire to resolve any problem without further flights of legislative fancy or begging an even more bankrupt federal government for another handout.

You put us here John Lynch. You created this monster.

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Really? Unexpected? GDP revised downward – again

In its final estimate on the first quarter on Friday, the Commerce Department said gross domestic product expanded at a 2.7 percent annual rate instead of the 3 percent pace it reported last month. (H/T: Big Government) So much for the cheery pronouncements of "things are getting better!  Happy faces all around!" With all of … Read more

Data Point – It was said that Obama could beat Bush…

NewsAlert: According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. shed 2.3 million jobs since February 2009, Obama’s first full month in office. Going back to World War II, that is by far the worst record for any president in his first 17 months, outpacing the job destruction experienced in the early … Read more

Killing Prosperity

The total incompetence in Washington-unless of course they are in fact a super villain like Moriarty hell bent on the economic destruction of the country–is fully on display.  We have people taking profits in 2010 without hiring, giving the impression of a recovery when in fact they are simply storing their nuts for the long … Read more

Why The Stimulus Had To Fail

It’s simple economics.  Government money comes from taxpayers.  The more government spends the more it relies on taxpayers to pay for its spending.  The less money taxpayers have the smaller the economy will be the fewer jobs there are, which means less income, less taxes, more debt.  The stimulus, the huge budget bills, the massive … Read more

One Hell Of A Wild Ride

There is always speculation about the state of the economy and plenty of people–mostly middle left–have looked at the goat entrails and pronounced a recovery underway if for no other reason than that they want to.   More than a few folks disagree, and it is fair to say that to some small degree the  opinion is … Read more

Seth Marshall Discovers Property Taxes

  Hat tip out of the gate to fellow NHI front pager Richard Olsen Jr. for this fine bit or wordsmithing on Nashua Rep Seth Marshall’s brief letter to the Nashua Telegraph about a pamphlet on the burden of property taxes.  Mr. Marshall (it appears) feels blessed as if the contents of this pamphlet revealed the answer … Read more

Washington’s New Financial’s Fig Leaf

A well functioning financial system is essential to the lives of customers, investors and businesses alike. We have just seen the dangers of a system that is broken and dysfunctional. A key part of that system is the regulatory framework which is supposed to oversee the smooth functioning of the financial markets. Clearly that has … Read more

Rumors Of A Recovery…

As rumors of the recovery continue, consider this.  The same willing media that over emphaszied the failing economy to get democrats elected is the same willing media that is selling a recovery to protect them now that they are in office. One possible upside.  People are less trusting of the media, in a downward arc … Read more

Kimball: Lynch must end “business as usual” here in NH

  Jack Kimball (GG file photo) From the Kimball Gubernatotorial Exploratory Committee: CONCORD, N.H.—The AP reported a $12 million shortfall for New Hampshire revenues in October. This is further proof that, while national leaders and economists would have us believe the worst is behind us, the reality for New Hampshire’s citizens is that the worst … Read more

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