Written By D.

The Governor of California says he will lay off 10,000 state employees in response to the failure of the legislature to pass tax increases. The total could be 20,000 employees. That is 20,000 out of a total of 2.5 million state employees. The msm usually forgets to mention the fact that California has that many government employees.

My first question is: If you can respond to not getting your way with increased taxes and layoff 10,000 people, did you really need those employees in the first place?

My second question is: Will the taxpayers of California miss them, or even realize that they are gone?

My third question: What is more important; 10,000 government jobs or the ruin more taxes will cause to California’s economy?

People and businesses have been voting with their feet in large numbers as they flee California for friendlier economic ground. Earth to California; you have a problem and tax increases will only make it worse.

When economic times are hard, government cutbacks are in order. It seems the only people expected to make sacrifices are the taxpayers. The solution to economic problems is not more taxes, it is cutbacks, and that means shrinking the size of government.

California has more idiotic rules and regulations than any other state, you could say they are the model for Socialism in this country and that is no complement. That’s why the world’s eighth largest economy is going under fast.

Now a reasonably intelligent person would say: We have gone too far and we need to revisit our idiotic policies and make changes. We need to stop listening to and appeasing every special interest “I’ve got a gripe” group of leftwing nutcases and do only what is best for the majority of California taxpayers.

It is time for states as well as the federal government to look at ways to shrink government and reduce regulations. Reality is people in the private sector face the possibility of losing their jobs in tough economic times. While no one wants to see others lose their job, do state employees deserve to be treated differently? Are they so important and special that they should be guaranteed employment for life no matter what the cost to the taxpayers?

Rather than using layoffs as a threat, use it as a part of a plan to help relieve a government that is suffering out of control bloat. Ask yourself; exactly why is it that California taxpayers should be upset by a reduction in government employees beyond a bit of sympathy?

Prove to us that you are serious about solving the economic problems you have helped to create and you will be taken seriously. It is time to Cowboy Up and make the hard choices.

 Cross Posted At: www.conservativewomenunited.blogspot.com

by lipstickelephant

We all know about the pork laden stimulus package that could be passed in the Senate as soon as Monday. Maybe some of you support it because you know we need to do something and this is the only alternative. Au contraire mon frere!!!! I give you: the TCOT challenge!

The plan is simple: Reduce all personal and corporate income taxes by half for the year 2009. Follow the link, tell us what YOU would do if you could keep more of your own money!!!!! Then pass it on! We have a very short time to convince our three “bipartisan” Senators (Maine’s Collins and Snowe and Pennsylvania’s Specter) that the stimulus must die. No compromise is suitable, the bill is flawed beyond rescue.

Time is of the essence. Pass the TCOT challenge on TODAY!!!

Thursday in a radio interview with Bill Press Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow (call her at 202-224-4822) had this to say about bring back the Fairness Docterine, “I think it’s time to bring accountability to the airwaves. I mean our new president has talked about accountability and transparency. You know, that we all have to stepup and be responsible. And, I think in this case, there needs to be some accountability and standards put in place.”

OK fine I’m all for transparency so let’s add some clarity to this. First of all Stabenow (call her at 202-224-4822) is married to Tom Athans who has held key positions at three liberal companies that tried to field liberal radio talk. The first was Democracy Radio which he co-founded and was the CEO until it fizzled out after three years. He then went on to that great leviathan of liberal failure Air America which is now bankrupt and for the past three years he’s been the CEO of Talk USA Radio who’s station OBAMA 1260 recently shut down. So one could say that Stabenow (call her at 202-224-4822) has a vested interest in the success of liberal talk radio. You probably also noticed two patterns that Athans seems to be the kiss of death at any company he comes to and that no matter how much money you pump into something and how much hype it gets if the public doesn’t like the product it will fail, huh that’s kind of this pile of lard stimulus package the more the public knows about it the less they like it perhaps Stabenow (call her at 202-224-4822) and the rest of the Senate should take not of that. Probably not though because they have this silly notion that they know more than the people who will actually be paying for this but anyway back to Senator Debbie Stabenow (call her at 202-224-4822)

The best part is her line about how Obama has called for “transparency and accountability.” Huh, well if those things were really important to Stabenow (call her at 202-224-4822) then why oh why did she vote to confirm the tax-cheat Timothy Geithner? Where’s the accountability there? Well it was an honest mistake, oh please if you or I had tried to get away with what he did we’d be in jail. When the tax cheat Tom Daschel dropped out as Obama’s nominee for Head of Health and Human Services Stabenow (call her at 202-224-4822) lamented this saying “I’m very sorry that that happened. He’s a great leader and would have made a real difference in health care.” What are you sorry about Debbie? Are you sorry that he resigned in a cloud of shame or that he got caught? And I’m sick and tired of this “We’ll he’s the best candidate for the job” line B.S.! There are other more qualified people out there and America deserves better then to have a bunch of tax cheats and liars leading us, there are plenty of them there and they should be voted out because America can do better.

The problem is that Stabenow (call her at 202-224-4822) and the rest of her liberal colleagues don’t understand the free market. People will buy, support, listen to what they want not what the government tells them to. Talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh are successful because they are informative, entertaining, and on point. If people believed in liberal policies and wanted to hear them trumpeted every day Keith Olbermann(the antithesis of accountability) would have 20 million viewers a day and MSNBC would be the most watched network but people don’t which is why Rush has 20 million listeners and Olbermann has been finishing a distant second or third in the his 8 o’clock time slot. In fact the least watched program on Fox News Channel has more viewers than the most watched show on MSNBC.

You might have noticed that I’d like you to call Debbie Stabenow and even if you don’t live in Michigan I’d still encourage you to give her a call because she wants to silence at least half the country by destroying talk radio as we know it and perhaps Debbie would do well to actually listen to the people of America before threatening the First amendment. So give her a call at 202-224-4822.

Oh and as a final note Bill Press is a flaming liberal so it isn’t as though the left has no voice on the radio.

by lipstickelephant

Today President Obama said that “failure to act [on the stimulus bill] would turn crisis into catastrophe”. Isn’t that essentially the same line we were fed by President Bush in the days leading up to the 700 billion dollar bailout? The same message that scared some of us into supporting a bailout that we once opposed? The same bailout that we have no idea where half the money went and the other half hasn’t even been spent? The same bailout that required such urgent action that nobody had a chance to truly dissect it and think of better alternatives?

I’m sorry–fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. America should be ashamed if they let another politician scare them into supplication.

Written By D.

Yep, you guessed it, more Tax-A-Lot tongue in cheek.

Stimulus Plans …The Dems have one, The GOP has one, Rush has one, so hey, why not me? I’m a citizen and taxpayer too ya know.

Here is my proposal; BAILOUT EVERYBODY.

As you can see, I prefer simple plans, so here’s how it works;

We mail special ATM Stimulus cards to everyone in Tax-A-Lot. Whenever anyone needs money they simply go to the closest Tax-A-Lot ATM machine punch in their SSN – “Stimulus Security Number” (formerly known as Social Security Number) enter the amount they need and presto the money machine comes alive!

Think of it, no more poverty … everyone will be wealthy. There will be no need for socialized medicine because everyone will be able to afford healthcare. No need for Social Security, Welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, Subsidized Loans for College and no one will need a mortgage so bye, bye Fannie and Freddie. We won’t even need banks. Think what it will do to lower the crime rate. We will all live in mansions, have big screen HDTV, drive Lamborghini’s and eat Caviar whenever we feel like it. Just one long bailout bash.

Now I know it will be hard for the government to print money as fast as we withdrawal it, so I propose the new ATM machines be equipped to print it on the fly. Problem solved!

O.K. – There is a downside to my plan, but there is always a downside in every plan. Since no one will have to work in Tax-A-Lot a few problems might arise; there will be no taxpayers to pick up the tab and it will be impossible to find a plumber but it’s impossible to find one now, so nothing will change much. I don’t want to get defensive but the Dems came up with their flawed plan in ten minutes and why should I spend more time on my plan they did on theirs? And, just like them, I’ll work out the problems later.

You know, the truth is, we can’t afford any of the other plans either and at least my plan really spreads the wealth around.

So, isn’t it just the greatest plan ever?

Cross Posted At; www.conservativewomenunited.blogspot.com

With the news of Tim Geithner getting the green light as Obama’s Treasury Secretary, even though he’s all, “D’uh…what’s this thing called the IRS, and why do I have to pay them all this stuff called ‘taxes’??”, plus the recent hubbub surrounding Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle’s troubles, it’s all enough to make me chuckle.

I mean, who cares if the guy in charge of the country’s finances is a little lazy with taxes?”

Who needs a secretary of defense with no military leadership experience?  Isn’t it good enough if say, he or she has been a champ at Milton Bradley’s “Battleship” since they were eleven, and spends their weekends playing paintball tournaments?

And come on…does it really matter if the attorney general doesn’t have a license to practice law?

I say, “What the heck! Go crazy!”

I know most of President Obama’s cabinet is set for his administration, but in case he decides to re-consider his selections.  Since he’s obviously got some issues with judgment of character, I have a few recommendations for cabinet secretaries as well as some special advisory positions…all based on experience, of course! Enjoy!

Since we all know how savvy she is with the market!

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Supersize us!

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It’ll be yooge.  You loook mahvelous!

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As you can see, he’s armed, so we’re totally good to go.  I feel safer already.

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Miss Piggy was originally asked to be the one in charge of Pork Barrel Spending…
but has insisted that this department be phased out.

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They say he’s got lots of experience with handling children.

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Archie has yet to accept his designation, commenting,
“What? A black president? There goes the neighborhood!”

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Can’t you just hear K-12 test scores rising around the nation, already?!

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“C is for C-O-O-K-I-E, that’s good enough for me!”

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Bill has recently accepted Jesus Christ as his savior.

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and last, but certainly not LEAST…

That right there, is at least 400 lbs of qualification (not to mention class, with a capital “C”)!

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by lipstickelephant

I may have to convince myself to get rid of my television because it seems like everytime I turn it on I get to see President Obama making yet another asinine decision. Truly, it’s almost not worth the annoyance it causes me.

Lo and behold, I turn on the tube this morning and there’s Mr. President, all grins, signing into law the Lily Ledbetter Act. What the Ledbetter Act will do, essentially, is nearly eliminate the time limits imposed on Title VII discrimination claims. According to Title VII, a wronged employee had 180 days from the discriminatory action to file a claim against their employer.  The Ledbetter Act states that each time a paycheck is issued, the discriminatory act occurs and the statute of limitations begins anew.

Andrew Grossman points out that there are more moderate solutions that would solve the issue with Title VII:

[One] option is to augment the current limitations period with a carefully drafted “discovery rule” so that the time limit on suing begins running only when an employee reasonably suspects, or should reasonably suspect, that he or she has been discriminated against.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/LegalIssues/wm2236.cfm

It seems to me that that would solve the problem without giving people an endless amount of time in which to file their claims. I’m guessing that sort of provision won’t line the pockets of the trial attorneys so many Democrats are beholden to.

Get ready for some serious discrimination suits to come crawling out of the woodwork. I’m so glad too, a more litigous society is just what we need. Feminists need not complain when companies begin screening employees for those who seem more likely to file lawsuits–they brought this on themselves.

Written By D.

Smart Girl Politics has a petition supporting Freedom of Speech for everyone, including Rush Limbaugh. Freedom of Speech is not just for Democrats and any attempts to stifle opposition is something we should all be concerned about. Please take a moment of your time to sign the petition at;

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/smartgirlpolitics/

 

 

 

Written By D.

Rush Limbaugh does not form my opinions for me. I form them for myself. While I do not listen to him all the time, I do on occasion tune in on my pocket radio while walking my dogs.

I think Rush is a man of hubris and I’m not much for a constant feed of hubris. But I guess he has earned the right through hard work and perseverance. He is a uniquely American success story.

I was very disturbed this morning when I saw an article on Fox News that said the Democrats had launched an online petition attacking him for his comments;

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/27/dems-launch-online-petition-rush-limbaugh/

I really don’t know what the Democrats hope to gain because I only see in their action anger aimed at Rush simply for expressing his views. It is a concept we call Free Speech and it is the right of all Americans, including Rush.

I don’t know if his views actually influence people, but I am sure the facts that he uses to support them probably do. Rush is not to blame for the facts. Rush is not to blame for the economic meltdown nor the consequences of Democrat bailout mania laced with pork. The facts are the facts. If Rush wants those policies to fail, he has the right to say it.

Now that Bush is no longer President, it seems the Democrats are in search of a polarizing figure to attack and Rush is a convenient target. Vilification of Conservatives is a way of life for Democrats. They always seem to have a whole list of adjectives at the ready to attack those that do not agree with them. This is just business as usual.

Of course you would think that these “important” Democrats would have something better to do with their time.

But the result they seek to achieve, which appears to be stifling the free speech of their opposition, is not going to endear them to anyone except their hardcore base. They have gone after Rush before to charge up their base, so this is not new. Democrats are not known for originality, I guess that’s why they are using the failed FDR plan to “stimulate” the economy.

Do they think they will separate Rush from his ditto followers? My guess is that he will gain more listeners and generate more advertising revenue. Maybe the Democrats attack on Rush should be called the “Rush Radio Stimulus Plan.”

Do they think that the GOP will turn their backs on Rush? I figure the GOP will just use Rush because as long as the Democrats focus on him as their big target, GOP legislators can use him for cover. They will probably say, “We don’t like what Rush is saying,” but I’d bet they hope he keeps saying it. Good cop, bad cop.

Is this “act” the Dems are putting on part of a plan to shut down talk radio and blame Rush for it? Well, estimates are that 23 million people listen to Rush. Do you really want to anger that many people, most all of whom are real taxpayers and are feeling a bit insecure right now?

For me, in the end, this is not about Rush, this is about Free Speech. I may not always agree with what others say, whether liberal or conservative, but I will defend their right to say it. I suggest that the Democrats could learn something from the children’s taunt; “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” If Democrats don’t like what Rush has to say, the solution is easy; ignore him and don’t listen to his radio program. It is that simple unless they have something against Free Speech. And, if that is the case, they will anger a lot more than 23 million people.