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The economic relationship between government, the private sector, and the people, has been the object of much debate as democrats try to convince people that spending trillions we don’t have has some kind of payoff at the other end. The fact that we can’t see that "end" and none of their predictions have come true fuels the fires of the opposition while encouraging proponents to claim we just need to wait a bit longer–or spend a few trillion more.
So here’s the rub.
(H/T Biggeekdaddy) (H/T to one of my facebook friends for the link–I lost you in the feed.)
The Shahodesheaporter New Hampshicrat trio gave us the stimulus, all the waste and crony handouts buried inside it, the stupid rules that knee-capped job regular creation as only bureaucracy can, and the debt. Oh yeah–they spent 20 million on signs to tell us they were spending billions on…nothing.
Separation of powers was meant to divide the authority so that a process of checks and balances was created to protect the people from abuses of power. This simple reality makes two things the democrats want you to believe impossible.
Paul Hodes is trying to restyle himself as a fiscal conservative. As a Washington outsider. But Washington outsiders don’t get huge campaign donations from the left wings senatorial elite Like Dan Inoyue, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez. Paul Hodes does.
Fiscal conservatives don’t manage to come in 45th out of 435 in 2010 earmark requests. Hodes did, then played at fiscal prudence, calling for reform only after having racked up more earmarks than 390 other House members.
In 2008 Hodes took a 10,000.00 dollar contribution from American Crystal sugar–a business looking for a way to break into ethanol production without burdensome upfront costs–the same year Hodes passed masive Ethanol hand-out farm bill mandates which he voted for, then overrode a veto to make it the law of the land.
Mr Hodes has the distinction of being in congress and voting for a budget and spending that resulted in a 400 billion dollar deficit, then campaigning as if he had nothing to do with, and then voting to triple that deficit to 1.4 trillion in the very next budget.
If you can believe it…there’s more on the jump.
H/T Sunlight Foundation via Instapundit
Skip posted this video last month for fun. Well now, someone has had some fun with it. The Brick is labeld ‘Pensions’ and the Washing Machine is labeled ‘State Budget.’ Watch it again, it’s less than 30 seconds, and enjoy the reality of it all. People on State pensions take particular note. If there … Read more
The first thing you have to understand is that to support Mr. Hodes position on letting tax cuts expire you have to be of the opinion that your property is only yours because the government allows you to keep it. This is a pillar of democrat fiscal policy. It explains why they berate anyone who dares allow a disfavored class to keep their own earnings. The phrase "irresponsible tax cuts" or any similar rhetoric, proliferate throughout the lefts discourse. So at its core the Hodes position is that the legal acquisition of wealth is little more than a royal indulgence that could expire at any moment. Put more simply, democrats cannot believe in individual property rights which should be a problem for anyone running for elected office in a constitutional republic but for some reason has not been a significant impediment.
There is ample evidence that Paul Hodes toes the line, is a Kool Aid drinker, and a reliable party hack. Each effort to sell himself as having fiscal integrity or ethics is met with an abundance of contradictory evidence. So to suggest that he is an independent thinker lacks veracity unless you mean independent from reality. To further demonstrate this break Hodes spokesman Bergman (not Ingrid but Mark) defended his paymaster from a recent attack on his record. (From the Union Leader)
Hodes spokesman Mark Bergman said Hodes voted for the stimulus to boost the economy and save jobs. Bergman disputed the ad’s claim that the government took over health care.
“We don’t believe it’s a trillion- dollar takeover,” Bergman said yesterday. “We’re arguing that this is an outside group that has helped Kelly Ayotte’s campaign. She’s getting another Washington establishment bailout.”
Bergman said Hodes voted for federal cap-and-trade legislation because he believes it will reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil and lead to alternative energy jobs in New Hampshire.
Mr. Hodes doesn’t even know what is in these bills so what they "believe" is irrelevant. And that’s actually the point.
The democrats economic agenda uses rhetoric and class warfare to get you to believe things that are not true. The biggest of these sins regards taxes–it is the biggest because they cannot possibly run their huge government without your money.
And that’s part one of the lie. It is your money. Weather you are a dishwasher or a CEO you made an agreement to do a job for compensation, whether it’s sweeping a floor or creating wealth for a corporation. Your work, your property. So when the left talks about repealing tax breaks all they are doing is talking about resuming more theft of someone else’s property.
The second part of that lie is that they can produce a method by which only the rich are taxed. While the definition of rich will always change as the need for more of other people’s property increases to pay for more and more government, consider that every tax in a free market is a tax on everyone else.
Democrats will blame Bush, but after 2006 they had the power to stop every penny of it. Instead, they stepped on the accelerator. November is coming. We must stop the spending
When something doesn’t work, and you are a democrat, well you just keep doing it. These graphs come to us courtesy of Andrew J. Coulson at Big Government.
Graph one Public education employees vs. student enrollment numbers.
Graph number two–on the jump–is the inflation adjusted cost of public K-12 education (that’s taxpayer dollars spent) compared to achievement levels. (I hope you are ready for this.)
According to the Center for Fiscal Accountability, New Hampshire residents work 226.8 days to pay for the cost of government this year. So go ahead and celebrate. Everything you earn after August 14th is technically yours to keep.
Who would have thought they’d let you keep 138.2 days worth of income from a years worth of work? What a bargain.
After posting this on Wednesday–the discovery that New Hampshire has the third highest number of welfare employees per 100,000 residents in the nation (More than California by the way which, if you noticed is a tiny bit bigger than New Hampshire)–it occurred to me that this may not be the only circumstance in which the … Read more
The headline reads (Today’s Union Leader) "Panel Hears Creative Options For Closing Budget Hole."
Someone call governor Lynch, the Nashua Telegraph,(Keene Sentinel, etc) and the NHDP–last I heard the democrats and their media friends were claiming we had a "surplus." Of course the ‘surplus’ was never sold in its proper context–as in, "hey I just found twenty dollars in the front pocket of my hoodie, another 100 million and that just leaves us with all the other debt we bonded and passed on to the next bunch of suckers."
No, they were plying media spin for weeks by impregnating the punch drunk minds of the public with the word "surplus." Poppies…Poppies…. But the only surplus was surplus spin, which to those of us who have been paying any attention at all correctly identified as BS.
Yesterday Terie Norelli celebrated my Birthday by taking to the pages of the Keene Sentinel to talk about what a great job the New Hampshire democrat party has been doing with the state. One of the things she’d like you to believe is that they have created (or saved?) a job friendly environment that has allowed the Granite State to recover more quickly than other states. But is that really true, and do democrats have anything at all to do with it?
It is a matter of fact that under the left New Hampshire has grown the size of state government and its regulatory nature. They have increased taxes and fees. While Ms. Norelli opines all the additional regulations they have added to inspire growth in the job market—and thus the economy—this is like someone handing you a tiny cup of water to put out a raging fire they started and then expecting you to thank them.
About the only thing they can claim is having inherited an ages old State formula that used to create jobs and growth. One they have tinkered with to the point of destruction. And things are not–as Norelli would like you to believe– heading in the right direction.
Dick Durbin, or Dirty Dick as we like to call him around the shop, is a prominent Senator from Illinois and another $10,000.00 donor to Paul Hodes. Durbin has all the standard conflicts with the "New and Improved Hodes–With extra Hypocritical Action!, and coming in at 685 million in earmark requests since fiscal year 2008 (117 million in 2010), dirty Dick should fit nicely into Paul’s stated mission to end earmark abuse in congress.
You’d think that soon to be private citizen Hodes would be concerned that all of his major donors are pork addicts. Simply taking money from them violates his earmark parole, but since when did integrity have anything to do with it. It’s clearly about saying whatever it takes to get re-elected.
So what else is so special about Durbin?