Archive for March, 2010


The Socialist Republic of Florida by Matthew Falconer

March 13, 2010
Posted by Economics9698 @ 8:09 AM

Matt Falconer is a local Orlando, Florida developer of some note and is running for Orange County mayor this fall. His book looks at Florida government from an “evil” developer’s point of view. This allows him to relate personal experiences and the frustration of dealing with government over the decades.

I have meet Matt once or twice and e-mail him once in awhile pretending we are buddies taking advantage of the fact that he is running for local office. He e-mails me back politely on occasion surly scratching his head wondering who the hell I am. Politicians God bless em. They do put up with a lot of crap come election time.

The forward is from Richard T. Lee of milk fame, one of the congressionally favor industries receiving billions in artificial price floor supports, caught me off guard. Having the corporate welfare queen write the forward to an anti government tax book was probably not the greatest idea. Fortunately he has a new book out and a second chance at redemption.

Mathhew Falconer


The first thing that sticks out in The Socialist Republic of Florida is Mr. Falconer’s looks at just the Florida economy explaining the boom and bust of the 2000’s. Quite shocking to the rest of us who are familiar with Alan Greenspan’s infamous 1% Fed Funds rate, Fannie and Freddie, the Community Reinvestment Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, foreign dollars flooding onto our shores and all the assorted macro issues with what is referred to as the “housing bubble”. Not to mention illegal immigrants buying up huge housing stocks in Central Florida and then exiting when the going got tough. Quite a bit to leave out of the book but in a way it’s a blessing because it allows the reader a more “micro” look at the state economy.

The first portion is about economic tax distortions caused by Florida’s homestead exemption that fixes property taxes for primary property owners leaving secondary home owners and commercial business exposed to the mercy of government officials. This is typical government thinking because the voters don’t get hit with a direct tax on their personal property. They get taxed with lost economic activity in their communities due to business failures and uncompetitive commercial properties. This can be seen in the huge commercial business buildings all around Central Florida partially or totally empty with no clients. A lot of these are not old out of date strip malls that are at the end of their life cycle but relatively new
10 years old or less structures that should be in their peak utilization years today. Here in the swank suburbs of Winter Springs we have several of these structures sitting unused begging for tenants. The point being that government economic distortions in the marketplace are not some abstract geek concept but real world policies that have devastating effects on the quality of life for our communities.

Simply put if $5,000 is taken away from the tax bill of a private residences and added to the local hardware store the hardware store has to lower profits, cut wages, cut staff, cut something to pay the bill. With the Internet and competition from competing chains the ability to pass the cost on consumers is limited by how sensitive consumers are to price. At the retail level the answer to that is VERY sensitive. So for most commercial enterprises they have to absorb part or all of a tax hike in property and related taxes. Because of the inability to pass cost on to consumers it becomes a contest to stay in business with eventually the death of marginal businesses. This is nothing new. Take a drive around Canada sometime. What do you see? Very limited competition, a couple of food and tire chains, a few specialty shops and a lot of blandness. Some would say like the Canadian people. Some in government see no problem with losing marginal competitors but those are real people losing their life dream. Those marginal competitors give consumers another choice. We lose competition and diversity when local and regional businesses go under.

The Socialist Republic of Florida


Mr. Falconer stumbles on the solution but bypasses it in favor of a “Taxpayer Amendment for Florida.” The amendment spells out a bunch of gobble gook that the average voter will never understand and the average politician could bypass in a New York minute. The solution is to limit taxes on property, all property to 1.35%. Put that on a statewide ballot. It will pass. And then put on a ballot an amendment eliminating all other local taxes except the gas and sales tax. You want to bring the cost of local government up front and personal to the average citizen? Force local governments to put the cost onto every purchase a citizen makes at the gas pump or grocery store. I guarantee you local governments will not be so caviler about expanding the scope of services if they have to add another 5 cents at the pump.

Why do the media cover gas prices and ATM fees so much? It’s something people deal with every day. It’s out there for all to see every time they drive anywhere. Use the same concept for local government taxes. When people in Seminole County see Volusia County pay 5 cents less for a gallon of gas and a penny less in retail sales taxes they are going to become involved in local government real quick demanding some answers. Simply put scrap the bloviating and expose inefficient operations by forcing local governments to display their cost to everyone on a daily basis. And yes some exemptions and waivers would need to be granted for special merchant situations on a case by case basis. By closing local taxing options, including impact fees, and exposing the true cost of government to the public on a daily basis people will demand and be very sensitive to price fluctuations.

Matt with supporters at local rally


Mr. Falconer exposes some local government waste like the City of Orlando buying Segway scooters and hiring people to drive them around town giving tourist tips and directions for lost souls from bland places like Canada. Pretty crazy and normally I wouldn’t believe him except I live here and he’s not lying. Really he’s telling the truth. This “rent seeking behavior” where government spends money to kill a budget on completely stupid crap has reached a boiling point here in Florida and the nation. The Tea Party has emerged at a powerful political force because of millions of Segway projects all across America.

Education, police, fire inefficiencies are explained. Mr. Falconer correctly points out the pension system for local governments cannot possibly be honored in the long run but offers up a “pay as you go” plan similar to a 401K plan. This will create a conflict between government workers and taxpayers without solving the real problem. The real problem is people get lazy in their government jobs. They lose their ability to be competitive in the private sector and sponge off the taxpayers their whole life. If you want to change the system you have to address this problem. Pass a constitutional amendment where no one can be employed by the state or local government longer than 12 years. No exceptions at all levels of government including elected officials. I know this would be a hard sell but it would eliminate the pension problems as well as the lazy slugs looking to suckle the government tit their whole working lives. Government workers attitudes would change dramatically if they knew their job was temporary and they would be working in that dreaded private sector sooner or later. You want change? That’s real change.

Instead of a traffic light and a designated crossing area Winter Springs got a $5 million dollar pedestrian bridge that is lightly used by the public


Mr. Falconer talks about the absurdity of government boards and their zoning requirements. Basically a bunch of do gooders trying to be productive on someone else’s dime. Zoning boards making goofy recommendations to developers like having buildings close to sidewalks to encourage pedestrian traffic to the shops. He points out that 99% of people in Florida drive and restricted parking access limits consumers and many of these new developments fail.

There is also something else he fails to mention but believe me it will happen. In Winter Park there is a new shopping development on Orlando Avenue right next to the sidewalk. Thousands of cars pass everyday. Cars get in accidents. When they do sometimes they stay on the road and other times they will end up on the sidewalk or into that nice expensive development just a few yards off Orlando Avenue. It’s a disaster waiting to happen and someday it will happen. Hopefully no one will be killed because of this government insanity but it just shows the complete lack of common sense these government officials have. If you want to be stupid and make a ass out of yourself there are better ways to do it than putting peoples lives at risk just because you think the peasants should be confined to half a square mile in the city. Appallingly stupid and disturbing.

Beautiful new private office building not less than a mile from pedestrian bridge unused with no tenants.


Mr. Falconer is one of the few higher income people to understand the relationship between taxes, lawyers, regulations and blue collar wages. Most “educated” upper income people believe income is related to education and to a certain degree they are right. For most Americans without a degree wages are directly tied to their employer’s ability to make a profit. The more an employer has to pay out in workman’s compensation, compliance cost, court cost, and the millions of other cost the less money there is for compensation. Kudos to one of the rich guys for recognizing the slugs in government and legal profession living off the sweat of the productive citizens.

I have seen this first hand in construction over the years. Back in the 1980’s I was the private inspector 12 story high rise, Orlando City Hall, as well as others. Back then the project had one inspector. The threshold inspector was required to do soil density testing, rebar inspection, form inspection, mold concrete cylinders, check the shoring holding up the forms for the elevated decks, break concrete cylinders, do daily reports, write structural request for further information (RFI’s) and fax as well as explain the changes to the structural engineer and deliver any paperwork or construction testing materials to the main office. The only time the inspector was given help was if there was an elevated slab concrete placement and the inspector could not physically be in two places t the same time. Other than that the inspector was on his own. And I can personally attest to the fact that Orlando City Hall (1989 phase) was an easier project than the 33 story Sun Trust right across the street was in 1987. Sun Trust (formerly Sun Bank) was twice as brutal and dangerous.

Our FDOT super duper $5 million pedestrian bridge on a beautiful 70 degree Saturday afternoon.


Generally inspectors had to be certified with the private Southern Building Code Congress International but it wasn’t the law. A lot of times a company with the inspection contract would simply pick out a smart guy known not to be involved with drugs and give him a set of multi-million dollar plans and just expect the guy to figure it out. Believe it or not most did. The ones who didn’t were kicked off the job usually because of a tip from the contractor to the inspection company. Contrary to popular belief most contractors want the job done right the first time. If there are problems in the future contractors love the phrase “but I did it exactly like the plans showed!” So the inspectors learned real quick or were demoted back to simpler tasks.

On the City Hall project a city inspector would come on the job once in a while and proclaim all was well or pick out some minor problem and spend weeks addressing it in meetings with the contractor. To the private inspector and contractor this was like some side circus played out to appease the city egos across the street. The real drama was being played out everyday in the sweltering 95 degree heat 80 feet up in the air. Never once did I see a city inspector up there long enough to check a post tension cable. Inspection is tough work if you do it right.

Now city, county and state inspectors have people to do all the physical work for them. They stand around job sites for hours waiting to do an inspection. They get paid well with job security and benefits. Political correctness has creped into the inspectors life since so little is required of them. Anyone can do the job now so why not get the “right” inspectors with the right political views in place to receive government checks. If you did a survey of the Turnpike, FDOT, Orange County, City of Orlando I would guess 70% or more of them are Democrat and the number is rising as the politically incorrect ones are shown the door. The job has gone from physically and mentally demanding to being the right fit for the affirmative action profile.

Down in Miami a Turnpike Enterprise Project Manager was in charge of a project for years. The contractor had been screwing up the paperwork for years and the private inspectors assisting the turnpike inspectors were in and out of the project with no continuation of a designated private inspector which the Turnpike “Project Manager” should have insisted upon. Clearly the responsibility to maintain consistency of the project would fall on the Turnpike Enterprise inspector. Unfortunately this inspector was often at bars and failed to keep up with the paperwork, missing contract requirements. Sometimes not even notifying the proper private inspection firms the contractor was performing work. To make a long story short a complete and utter screw up. So what to do?

Believe it or not the Turnpike called in inspectors from Orlando to cover the job for this jerk and then over a month or so blamed them for the screw ups. In one instance the Turnpike authority was so desperate to make themselves look good and private inspectors bad they had several government inspectors stand around a work trailer while others were trying to work and be productive. The government inspectors standing around made fun of some other government inspector sitting down pretending to work because the inspector believed in Islam. I swear to god this happened. The idea was to make fun of the Islamic guy and hope the private inspectors would join in the religion bashing so they could report the incident to the government and fire some private guys to obscure the fact the Turnpike had completely blown it’s assignment. It was strait out of the novel 1984 by George Orwell. Who cares about the job when there is politically bad thought out there to be demonized. Of course traditionally guys always went into construction because they were NOT politically correct but this is where the government has taken the inspection industry in the last 25 years. Lazy politically correct slugs that do nothing but push paperwork around (badly in the case of the Turnpike Authority), flap their lips and collecting a check while others do the real work.

Mr. Falconer covers communist goals of promoting the UN, promiscuity, media control, destruction of the family unit and so forth. What he fails to see is the real motivations behind Marxism in journalism, government and the upper middle class. Only the useful idiots truly believe the goals of communism. Most upper class people stay married and don’t have children out of wedlock. They promote communism simply because it’s the best way to promote their carriers. If you are a lawyer it’s nice that the black community has an almost 70% out of wedlock birth rate and 28.6% of black men end up in jail. It keeps you rolling in the cash. There is never a shortage of criminals flowing in and out of the justice system.

If you are a journalist its easier to get emotional responses to “justice” stories and a lot less complex than explaining why not allowing across state line health insurance sales creates oligopolies and higher cost. Just put the brain into neutral and go for the emotion as well as the higher paycheck. Really why would any reporter want to take the hard road of explaining complex problems like Fox News John Stossel? John has to research and explain problems. It’s hard work. Why not just do a Chris Mathews and get some uninsured guy on with cancer and blame the government? Sure takes lot less work and gets better ratings.

The true motivation of the communist at the top is simply that they are cold hearted bastards that exploit stupid people for their own personal gain. Obama loves capitalism as can be seen in his expensive King Louis XVI taste. He just doesn’t want the peasants enjoying those same benefits. What communist truly want is just enough servants to sustain them in their life style of luxury while keeping the countryside clear of development so as to enjoy it when taking excursions out of the big city. Pretty much the same as the bully in high school who wanted to screw all the girls and beat up any guy who tried to get some. People need to recognize this behavior in government Mr. Falconer describes and be rude. In high school the best way to take down a bully was to break his nose. The same tactics need to be displayed to government bullies. Get in their face, be rude and take them down a few notches. Kick some ass. Whenever you see some communist government crap freak out and cause a scene.

Some of Mr. Falconer’s solutions are common sense like privatization of services. Again his Declaration of Taxpayers Independence is long winded and well intentioned. But it fails to get to the heart of the matter. The problem is people can make careers out of government service. Smart people who will figure out ways to get more money from taxpayers. Government workers need to be limited to a total of 12 years service in their lifetime. Government service should be a temporary employment situation at best. 12 years and then you are gone. 12 years gives enough time for even the most complex functions to be performed. And then it’s over and back to the private sector.

The second thing is to get government cost out in the public domain every day. Gas tax per gallon and sales tax are everyday things that will keep the cost of government permanently in front of the publics eye. Any local government wanting to increase its scope of services will not be able to hide behind taxes on business. Opps there it is! Exposed!

All these reforms could be done with a few amendments to the Florida constitution. Simple amendments. Amendment 12 “All new state and local employees shall not be employed longer than 12 years.” Government arrogance, pensions, attitude solved. Keep it simple and with some luck something positive will come out of the looming economic melt down.

I wish Matt the best of luck. Government needs more people like him with the intelligence and distrust of government to do good things for the average taxpayer. God speed.


Somebody Please Tell the Little Jew Man in the White House to STFU

March 10, 2010
Posted by Economics9698 @ 12:43 PM

What is it with these little rude Jews invading American politics? These Jew Marxist nihilist worshiping schemes that will destroy America as a free nation. Chuck Schumer thinks free speech is pornography. Maybe that Jew needs to pack his crap and go back to Germany or some European hole.

Barbra Boxer selling every secret she can get her hands on to the Chinese. How do I know this? Almost all Jews who get in a position of power with sensitive compartmented information sell it to communist in China or Russia. It’s what Jews do. They never have had an allegiance to America and never will. They are here to get some coins and leave when it all falls in. They don’t call them wandering Jews for nothing.

Barney Frank and his Freddie Mac boyfriend swapping bodily fluids while devising zero down balloon loan schemes that defined the housing bubble. Why is this vile Jew not in jail? Was there ever a more disgusting Jew? A pervert who runs a brothel out of his house while supporting the Community Reinvestment Act that forced banks to loan trillions to people who could not afford it. All the while his lover and other Democrats making millions from the disaster. Typical Jew. Destroy a country but as long and the Jews and their friends get rich it’s cool.

Rahm Emanuel likes to run around naked in the congressional gym intimidating the gentiles


Dianne Feinstein getting rich of her husbands connections to China’s business community. All the while preaching to the gentile’s justice. Another disguising Jew making some coins off her connections.

And now the dirt bag Jew from Chicago. Rahm Emanuel the little Jew man with some coins in his pocket. Running up to the gentiles pointing his little boney finger in their chest demanding political loyalty. Was there any doubt that this would happen when an afro Leninists was elected to the White House? Jews and Negros. What the hell did the American people expect? At least Bush had the decency to wipe after bending over and screwing the American people. Now we have the communist Jews teamed with the Negros telling us white folk to bend over for a bigger faster version of Bush.

Here’s the lesson of it all. Next time a Jew or Negro walks up to you and demands something just simply walk away or bust their jaw on the spot. No need to apologize for supporting freedom and liberty. No need to want to be a part of the Marxist nihilist movement. After you knock them the fuck out pray to Jesus a little with them.

There is no need to play nice to pigs in the White House or outside the White House. It doesn’t matter where you are you don’t play their game. If they are rude to you then be twice as rude to them. If they stick their finger in your chest put your fist on their face. Sooner or later white America needs to realize the other side is acting like Jews and Negros from the ghetto and they better adjust their behavior accordingly.


Debt Commission another con that is a day late and a dollar short.

March 4, 2010
Posted by clinicalthinker @ 16:04 PM

At this late date Obama now wants bipartisanship.
What happened to his bravado “HEY MY SIDE WON GUYS”.
Oppps … now the mass has spoken and all of Washington is scampering for cover because they are likely going to be standing in a bread line somewhere?

NOW we need to reign in spending?
How about cut off the earmarks they just passed and the line by line he promised while in campaign mode?

The government has us all in a strangle hold and we only have a few kicks left.
What is the solution?
Toss them all out.
This is not about party.
For the past 50 years we have had the same bullcrap foisted on us no matter who was in charge. Obama is simply the last straw.
Below is a list sent to me today.
The picture above came with it and I laughed out loud (a lot).

To all 535 voting members of the Legislature, it is now official:
You are ALL corrupt morons:

The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.

Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.

War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.

The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

You have FAILED in every “government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars

AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?

YOU ARE NUTS!


How Did We the People get in this Mess?

March 4, 2010
Posted by Economics9698 @ 13:52 PM

To put it simply we expected our politicians to deliver miracles and perform economic feats that in the long run are unsustainable. We vote in politicians and demand retirement, medical services, housing subsidies, education oversight, national defense, domestic defense, lazy high paid government jobs, drug wars, overseas spying, domestic spying and thousands of other things unrelated to protecting freedom and liberty. The programs are cheap poorly thought out schemes in some cases no better than a Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme. Social Security was supposes to be put in a “lock box” back in 1985. Guess what it was robbed. Surprised? People condemn corporations for greed but there is no swine shallower than the politician that would steal grandma’s retirement money.

Problem number one is federal spending. This is not a Democrat or Republican problem. Both parties are equally guilty of spending the United States into oblivion.

Bill Clinton the most fiscally conservative president since Eisenhower?


A quick look at the St. Louis Federal Reserve web site and Federal Consumption and Gross Investment shows a spending increase of 82% for the 1960’s, 92% for the 70’s, a whooping 97% under Reagan and Bush 41, 13% under Clinton and another 86% under Bush 43. The most fiscally conservative president since Eisenhower has been Bill Clinton? Yes that’s what the numbers tell us.

Today our known national debt is 12.5 trillion. Our entire GDP is $14.5 trillion. 87% debt ratio is not good but it could be overcome if that was all we owed. Unfortunately our unfunded liabilities are $108 trillion. Medicare liability being the largest chunk at $74 trillion. Is it any wonder the federal government is fighting tooth and nail to get its hands on Medicare? With baby boomers scheduled to retire by the millions this program alone will financially destroy America. In the coming years there will have to be a huge expansion in the supply of medical care or massive rationing.

It doesn’t matter which party is in control. If the ship is sinking I would rather take my chances with the private sector. I cringe at the thought of being stuck in some hospital ward for months with no care and little food like in England. State wards checking me every few hours to see if I am dead so they can move another patient into my space. Thanks but no thanks. I think I would rather die in a barn than a state run medical facility.

So the federal government has promised the gimme generation generous retirements and medical care for their votes. And for the most part they delivered. Pensioners like my grandmother paid a 1% payroll tax and she never saw her tax increase above 5% matched by her employer. For her paying a few thousand to get a few hundred thousand in benefits was a no brainer. She was at the beginning of the FDR vote buying schemes. It was a great New Deal for her. And now the baby boomers are about to retire and there is no possible way the politicians can deliver on their promises. The lock box is empty, the party is over, the alcohol is wearing off and people are beginning to realize it was all just a generational illusion. One group of citizens getting another to pay for their retirement and medical care. Generational theft as John McCain likes to coin the phrase. Only the generation that got robbed doesn’t even realize it yet. But they will.

Ronald Reagan talked the talk but delivered big government

The average debt per citizen is $40,372. The debt per taxpayer is $113,840. The PPP is $46,400 per citizen. Personal debt per citizen is $53,905. The average tax payer is on the hook for about $190,000 both personal and government debt but he only makes $46,400. And the bills just keep on coming. The president states that he will not tax anyone making over $250,000. Does any sane person think that is true?

This entire health care bill is one big tax hike and rationing program. A complete renunciation of past promises made to the gimme generation. Benefits taken away from the gullible baby boomers that paid for grandma and grandpa their whole life to get negative returns in the end. Maybe the next generation will not be so gullible. Maybe the next generation will have personal savings retirement accounts.

They have the audacity to disguise it as providing health care for all. We are fools for voting them in and drowning them out when Reagan in 1983 and Bush in 2004 spoke up about the insolvency of these programs. This is nothing more than the final nail in the coffin for the United States. Are things ever the same after a personal bankruptcy? The United States will fundamentally change over the next decade. The Obama dictators on the left and freedom and liberty on the right. The states are already filing law suits and making preparations for state rule. They know what is on the horizon and are preparing accordingly.

There are other follies that have contributed to the demise of the United States but they are rooted in the fact that people vote for politicians who promise them the means to live the high life. The Community Reinvestment Acts of 1977 and 1996 opened up home ownership to the “disadvantaged” and gave everyone a piece of the American pie. We learned some people are renters and some are owners for a reason. Maybe everyone should not have a home.

Bush 43 set spending records. So much for the “R” label.


The Federal Reserve and it’s independence from Congress. Hey it’s a bank. It’s a bank that can print money. What do banks that can print money like to do? Maybe print money? It’s not rocket science but somehow our politicians ignore the fact that the dollar has lost 93% of its value since the creation of the Fed in 1913. The Federal Reserve played a huge role in making the Great Depression longer and deeper. In the past half the time the Federal Reserve got monetary policy right and half the time wrong. One thing is certain Alan Greenspan will go down in the Hall of Shame for his 1% Fed Funds rate in the middle of the biggest housing bubble in the history of mankind. With friends like that who needs enemies?

There was a reason Andrew Jackson killed the Second Bank of the United States and reverted back to a banking system of “hard money.” The biggest one was limiting the debt the federal government could get itself into. When the federal government borrowed money it had to pay back the money to private banks. This meant immediate tax hikes or long term debt. There was no game played where the Federal Reserve issues bonds to finance the federal government, sells them to a third party and then buys them back. From 1837 to 1913 if the federal government borrowed money it paid it back or defaulted like everyone else. It was only after the private sector bail out in 1895 of the federal government that New York bankers revive the idea of a national bank. And today we are relearning the lessons Andrew Jackson learned 181 years ago about concentration of wealth and power in a single bank.

The progressives of 1913 put into place their piece of the dictatorship puzzle. FDR put his ponzi schemes in place to move toward dictatorship. Nixon and his communist price controls. Reagan and his crazy spending. It’s been a march for a hundred years now.

Jeckle Island the birth of the Federal Reserve


Some generations have done well and some have yet to be screwed royally. Everyone keeps electing the same D and R politicians and we keep getting the same D and R solutions. What is best for the people will probably never happen but they are:

1. Health Savings Accounts with catastrophic $5,000 deductibles. Simple and puts the power in the hands of consumers.

2. Personal Retirement Accounts. Let the people keep 5% of what they earn in local, state, federal or corporate AAA bonds. At least the people will know what return they are getting on their money.

3. End the Fed. God I sound like an Alex Jones nut-case. I have supported the Federal Reserve my whole life under Volcker and Greenspan but after the disastrous events that have occurred and will occur in the future I simply changed my mind. Peter Schiff, Dan Mitchell and others were right and I was wrong. The Federal Reserve simply cannot be trusted to do what is in the best interest of the people. I would support a return to “hard money” or a limited controlled Federal Reserve that is required by law to increase the monetary base at a set rate such as 3% plus or minus 1%. All other functions are delegated to different institutions.

4. Constitutional amendments further restricting the federal government from all social engineering. Social justice quickly becomes corruption. Let the states decide what is needed in the social justice arena.

There are many events that have led up to the point of insolvency and dictatorship. Hundreds and thousands. But the biggest change that has led us to this point is the change in attitude. During the Great Depression and afterwards a whole generation looked to the federal government for economic salvation. It mattered little that the results were horrible and returns meager. People began voting for politicians that could deliver more and more benefits. No one looked to the year 2019 when the bills came due. It was all fun and games for the “Greatest Generation” and they plundered their children for retirement payments and medical bills. And now the baby boomers are going to retire and the politicians have spent all the money and left an unattainable national debt. The politician’s equivalent of a lump of coal for Christmas. We get the government we deserve.


Nice explaination of national debt?

March 3, 2010
Posted by clinicalthinker @ 20:29 PM

For those of you who visit this blog on a regular basis you know I frequent the political forums on the net.

For the most part the real bubble heads are 1st, 2nd or 3rd year college students … or probably younger still living with mommy and daddy and pretending to be older. If you enjoy communicating with a brick (apparently I do) and have the time it can be fun and enlightening. One tends to come away realizing just how ignorant, stupid or brainwashed this young generation is.
One also realizes we are SO SCREWED if they can not be re-educated.

Today I ran into a young man who made a great effort (and did a great job) at trying to explain in simple language the mess we all find ourselves in.

Check out his Blog http://spotonjohn.blogspot.com/2010/03/national-debt.html
His name is:
John Cox


Another Obama scandal?

March 3, 2010
Posted by clinicalthinker @ 11:04 AM

Barack Obama seems to have a propensity for lawsuits and scandal.
What do you think the problem is?
Usually where there is smoke one will find fire. It makes me laugh out loud to recall the left sniveling and whining about Bush and WMD when in their midst they have a man who opens his mouth and out rolls a lie at worst and half truth at best.

So this all boils down to daily the left has a gored ox and they remain silent.
I see no demonstrations in the street supported by them. I see no mention period by the leftist journalist about yet another disability that plagues Barack Obama.

What’s up with that?

So what surfaces today?
It seems “Walpingate” is about to raise its ugly head AGAIN.
Darrell Issa, R-Calif. (one of the very few good guy politicians from CA) who is ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa have discovered further documentation that points to another Obama cover-up.

Ya gotta love the Illinois political way.

No wonder this President needs a teleprompter … his past is so checkered he can’t remember what, who, when and where he is or has been.

You can read the latest about “Walpingate” HERE


Generation Zero

March 2, 2010
Posted by clinicalthinker @ 16:24 PM

I am not a Sean Hannity fan by any means … however he does have interesting guests periodically … now if he would just let them talk without interruption (must be a virus inundating Fox because O’Reilly is also infected). I listen thinking blah, blah, blah (why don’t you just SHUT UP and let this interesting person finish a sentence?)

So I DVR the programs and zip through the opinion (which we all seem to have) and stop when something other pops up. I wear a big girl thong now and can my own opinion from the facts for myself.

Such was the case the other night … when Hannity interviewed the producers of Generation Zero (Steve Bannon & David Bossie from Citizens United Productions).

I sat riveted and aghast … not because I was surprised at the material presented but because someone had the guts and foresight to produce and present it.

The information is CHILLING to the bone.

Being born in 1941 I could relate since I have lived through that beginning. Being a behaviorist I knew immediately just how accurately they had hit the nail on the head. The how and why we ended up in this mess today.

This documentary is a MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE who hopes to escape the downward spiral we have allowed ourselves to be pushed in to.

From their website this is a description of the ABOUT THE FILM.

“The current economic crisis is not a failure of capitalism, but a failure of culture. Generation Zero explores the cultural roots of the global financial meltdown – beginning with the narcissism of the 1960′s, spreading like a virus through the self-indulgent 90′s, and exploding across the world in the present economic cataclysm.

Generation Zero goes beneath the shallow media headlines and talking head sound bites to get to the source of today’s economic nightmare. With a cutting edge style and haunting imagery, this must see documentary will change everything you thought you knew about Wall Street and Washington.

Featuring experts, authors, and pundits from across the political spectrum, Generation Zero exposes the little told story of how the mindset of the baby boomers sowed the seeds of economic disaster that will be reaped by coming generations.”

Below are the documentary trailers.

I have hit the political forums and what did I find?
Denial as usual. Sniveling and whining that “BOOMERS” have caused NOTHING … boo hoo!

What apparently escapes them is the POINT they were trying to make in the film … that loving parents trying to provide a better life have sheltered enough “narcissistic brats” that lack ethics and responsibility which is the base of our governmental meltdown today.

If the shoe does not fit … don’t squeeze your foot into it!

So what can we expect from the government and corporate spoilers?
ATTACK of the facts!
ATTACK on the producers!

Unfortunately there are so many ignorant out there that will buy into that mindset.
Don’t you think that one day people would BECOME LEERY OF FREE GOVERNMENT KOOLAID?

There is always room for HOPE.


Obama Prepares Counter Insurgency against Peasants

March 1, 2010
Posted by Economics9698 @ 16:55 PM

The news for the ethnocentric narcissist has been bad for months now. The elitist probably doesn’t care in the slightest other than the white people are upset they lost their job. All those nasty Tea Party white trash peasants clogging up the streets and parks of America.

Michele and Barack are eating their Iron Chef meals while the girls attend the finest $30,000 a year economically segregated private school while the black peasants get raped and brutalized in the public schools a few feet away from the privileged Obama girls. The Federal Reserve is left holding $5.1 trillion in useless notes from payoffs to the Democratic Party thugs and Michele eagerly plans another tax payer funded party featuring the finest movie stars and the best food from Indonesia. The communist thugs won the election and they will have none of that back talk from the Tea Party peasants. So what to do? Let the peasants have health care.

Our Dear Leader, where’s the cigarette?


Yes while the peasants are starving, jobless, homeless and desperate just as in 1789 when Marie Antoinette proclaimed “Let them eat cake” and so to do our useless aristocrats in Washington proclaim “let them have health care” so they can feel good about their enlightened thinking and Harvard educations. And just as the reality of the precarious situation King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette faced in 1789 did not dawn on them so to do Michele and Barack ignore the will of the peasants as they continue their self indulgence and pursuit of Harvard politics as the nation suffers. There are some earth changing events just around the corner in 2011 and the Obama’s are oblivious to change when it is front of their face.

A so it is in March of 2010. The Federal Reserve claims 5.7% GDP growth while the US Department of Labor reports 496,000 more job losses in one week. The Obama’s and the radical left have rallied the faithful for one last push for health care reform. If it’s good or bad for the people matters little. It’s good for consolidation of power in Washington.

Joseph Stalin could not find a Doctor in 1953 because he killed the best ones. He died alone.


The elites will always be able to afford the best doctors. Stalin had access to the best doctors even in the communist days of the USSR. That was until he had a purge of doctors. So unfortunate for him the purge occurred right before he got deathly ill and needed a doctor. Bad timing. Stalin died without medical assistance suffering in pain. No doctor in the USSR dared treat the tyrant for fear of being executed if there were any complications. Stalin withered away isolated and uncared for. And so some day may our smoking president contract lung cancer. May he receive the same treatment as Stalin on his death bed.

We the people know socialized medicine doesn’t work. We see Canada, England, France and Germany. We know cost will increase and quality decline just like any government run program. In this time of high cost the government should be going in the opposite direction eliminating programs. But the progressives continue to push for reconciliation and passage. And the peasants continue to be pushed just a little bit further towards revolution and real change against the aristocrats. Keep it up Harvard graduate we got your number. 1793 er 2012 is just around the corner.