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What was once “California Dreamin” is now a Golden State nightmare

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 260 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, Environmentalism, History, immigration, Misery Index, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism at November 6th, 2010 - 4:30 pm

I’d say I feel sorry for them, but I don’t, so I won’t. The majority of voters obviously want only one party, the dimocrats, who never saw a spending bill they didn’t love, to rule. Every major office in the state is now held by dimocrats.

And every time you think the liberal voters out there can’t get any more stupid, they prove us wrong, and surprise us, yet again, with their colossal ignorance. Well, maybe surprise is the wrong word, because nothing they do surprises me or you.

What these libturd dumbasses fail to see is that this out of control spending cannot be sustained. You can’t just keep raising income, sales, and corporate taxes, and expect those who are getting royally screwed to just lay back and take it, as if they have no other choice.

Even though the spending there by the liberals in the dimocrat controlled owned legislature is totally out of control and unsustainable (and has been for years), it’s going to get worse. Much, much, worse.

The state is already almost $160 billion in debt, and they have no way of paying this money back, other than a federal bailout. Then to make matters even worse, the liberal voters in California, in their infinite wisdom, actually gave the legislature, which already spends money like drunken sailors on shore leave liberals, the green light to pass the more unsustainable budgets that will add billions of dollars more to the state’s debt with a simple majority of the legislature approving it, rather than the two-thirds majority that was previously required. What sheer brilliance! This is akin to giving your checkbook full of blank checks to your teenagers and their friends and then dropping them off at the local mall.

What is going to continue to happen, and will now pick up steam, after the elections earlier this week, is a mass exodus of both growing businesses, large and small, with all their high-paying jobs, and the middle class, who are the backbone of what’s left of the state’s wrecked economy, and who are the productive workers in the state that worked those jobs, who will now move to “greener pastures”, states more business and taxpayer-friendly.

Already, California is going to lose 3-4 congressional seats when re-districting is completed, after the final numbers from the 2010 Census are tallied, due to hundreds of thousands of productive working people leaving the Golden State as businesses that employed them either moved to more business-friendly states or simply shut their doors due to overbearing regulations and high taxes.

There used to be around a dozen auto assembly plants in the state. Every American auto manufacturer, and even Toyota, had plants in California. They’ve all closed their plants there and moved elsewhere, taking their high paying jobs with them.

The defense, aviation and aerospace industries, companies such as Douglas Aviation, Lockheed-Martin, Convair and General Dynamics, that once had dozens of plants and facilities up and down the coast, and employed thousands upon thousands with good, high paying jobs, are now gone. And in turn, the smaller companies, that once supplied parts and supplies to these larger companies, also were forced to close their doors or move.

Even the high-tech companies, such as Apple, Google, DIRECTV, and Hewlett-Packard/Compaq, which were supposed to help offset some of these job losses from other industries’ leaving the state, are starting to wise up and move elsewhere; to Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado or Washington, all of which are much more business-friendly. Some of these companies might be run by liberals, but they have shareholders to answer to who won’t tolerate losing money just for the sake of staying in California with its business-killing taxes and regulations.

These liberal imbecile voters, and liberal imbecile legislators they elected, have brought this upon themselves for a myriad of reasons, including, but not limited to, allowing the state employees to unionize (this happened during Jerry Brown’s first term as Governor). The public employee unions are now the most powerful in the state, and its workers are or will be owed billions of dollars in benefits that the state will simply not be able to pay, again, without a federal bailout.

They stupidly expected “green energy” jobs to replace the thousands of high-paying “dirty energy” jobs, such as at coal-fired power plants, oil refineries, etc., which were shut down or moved out of California due to out of control anti-pollution laws, fines, and fees. And even these “green energy” companies are leaving the state!

Solexant, which is a solar panel manufacturing company, recently announced that it will relocate to Oregon, and will build a manufacturing plant there that will employ around 170 people to start.

The liberal voters also refused to suspend the state’s cap and tax energy law which will cause utility costs to sky-rocket, and lower the already low standards of living for a lot of its citizens. And if that’s not bad enough, they even allow illegal aliens to vote because most cities refuse to enforce the requirement that only U.S. citizens vote.

But just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, it will, after the elections earlier this week.

With this mass exodus of productive people, leaving by the thousands every month, and businesses leaving by the dozens, all that will be left in California will be a collapsing economy, with virtually no jobs and no job growth in the near future, but hundreds of billions of dollars of unpaid debt.

So, in closing, all you California libs voters, we hope you will enjoy watching the train wreck that you are responsible for by giving expanded powers to your already out of control lib legislators, who will undoubtedly put you even further in debt. I know we will enjoy watching it.

Hope you like your millions of illegal aliens, lowering the state’s already pathetic standard of living and wages, collecting welfare and bankrupting the state’s social services, which I’m certain are already bankrupt and operating in the red.

Keep spending like the drunken sailors liberals you are. But when this all comes crashing down on your heads, and trust me, it will, and sooner, rather than later, don’t come hat in hand begging the rest of us taxpayers to bail you out, because, as the old adage goes: “That dog don’t hunt”. In other words, it ain’t gonna happen!

To you smart people, the conservative voters, who know I am right, I wish you good luck. You’re going to need it, if you plan on riding out the storm.

Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Dimocrats

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 283 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, Tea Parties at November 3rd, 2010 - 8:30 am

Other than the fact that she was too polite , here’s a good column by Michelle Malkin…

By Michelle Malkin November 3, 2010

On the eve of a historic midterm election upheaval, President Barack Obama tried to walk back his gratuitous slap at Americans who oppose his radical progressive agenda. “I probably should have used the word ‘opponents’ instead of ‘enemies’ to describe political adversaries,” Obama admitted Monday. “Probably”?

Here is an ironclad certainty: It’s too little too late for the antagonist-in-chief to paper over two years of relentless Democratic incivility and hate toward his domestic “enemies.” Voters have spoken: They’ve had enough. Enough of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s rhetorical abuse. Enough of his feints at bipartisanship. Whatever the final tally, this week’s turnover in Congress is a GOP mandate for legislative pugilism, not peace. Voters have had enough of big government meddlers “getting things done.” They are sending fresh blood to the nation’s Capitol to get things undone.

Just two short years ago, Obama campaigned as the transcendent unifier. “Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he proclaimed. “We have been and always will be the United States of America.”

It’s been an Us vs. Them freefall ever since.

“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us,” Obama taunted a few weeks ago. “They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.”

“They’re counting on young people staying home and union members staying home and black folks staying home,” the fear-mongering agent of hope and change jeered on the campaign trail last month.

“You would think they’d be saying thank you,” he sneered last April, when millions turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests.

“I want them just to get out of the way” and “don’t do a lot of talking,” he scoffed in response to prescient critics of the federal trillion-dollar stimulus boondoggle.

In addition to labeling GOP opponents of his open-borders policies “enemies” who needed to be “punished” by Latino voters, Obama accused them — that is, us — of lacking patriotism. “Those aren’t the kinds of folks who represent our core American values,” he told viewers of the Spanish-language network Univision.

Democratic leaders have taken their cue from Team Obama’s persistent politics of polarization.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called vocal citizens who protested the federal health care takeover bill during the town hall revolts of 2009 “un-American,” too. Remember? “These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American,” Pelosi and Hoyer blasted in an op-ed piece for USA Today last summer. “Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.”

This from the woman who called for a vengeful government investigation of grassroots opponents of the Ground Zero mosque.

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Alinsky Learned From The Chicago Underworld

by 1389AD ( 92 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, Barack Obama, Communism, Crime, History, Progressives, Socialism, Terrorism at November 1st, 2010 - 6:30 pm

The New Criterion: ‘Organized’ Crime

(h/t: Bumr50)

By Andrew C. McCarthy

On the President’s favorite philosopher, Saul Alinsky.

It is a matter of no small amusement for the journalist and agitator Nicholas von Hoffman that his beloved mentor, Saul Alinsky, learned the craft of “organizing” at the feet of Chicago’s most notorious mobsters. This was nearly eighty years before the self-proclaimed radical became a household name, having posthumously inspired an up-and-coming organizer who went on to become the forty-fourth president of the United States. Alinsky’s entrée to the Al Capone gang (which, tellingly, he called a “public utility”) was neither his ruthlessness nor his penchant for rabble-rousing, though a surfeit of both qualities surely impressed his friend Frank (“the Enforcer”) Nitti. It was, instead, his academic credentials.

A freshly minted doctor of criminology from the University of Chicago, Alinsky sought out, bonded with, and closely studied anti-social types. His experience proved invaluable in his lifelong pursuit of “social justice,” the organizer’s panacea. Alinsky even found a Depression-era job at Joliet’s hard-knocks penitentiary, assessing the suitability of inmates for parole. Not every crook had the panache of the Enforcer, and the work soon bored Alinsky, whose promiscuous mind was easily given to boredom. Yet there was an oasis in this desert: the evaluation of an occasional con man. In an unintentionally hilarious vignette, von Hoffman relates that “one of the flim-flam men initiated Alinsky into the secrets of his trade.” We’re never told to which “his” the trade-secrets in question belonged—the flim-flammer or the organizer. It turns out not to matter. They’re both frauds.

Fraud is, in fact, the leitmotif of Radical, von Hoffman’s adoring portrait of Alinsky.[1] This oughtn’t be taken the wrong way: Radical is an enjoyable, sometimes even an endearing, read. Von Hoffman is an engaging writer, especially during the stretches when he manages to rein in his seething disdain for “teabaggers,” “the rich,” and other Americans who actually like America. There was a self-conscious coldness about Alinsky, who urged disciples to nurture what von Hoffman describes as the “cold anger that fosters calculated and measured action.” This “Alinsky aesthetic” held social workers and other idealistic progressives in nearly as low esteem as smug capitalists. It lauded the good sense of Saint Paul (a model organizer in the agnostic Alinsky’s eyes), for leaving “the poor to Jesus while he went after people with at least a little substance.” It’s a stripe of bloodless cynicism that will ring a bell for those who’ve closely watched the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Yet von Hoffman’s admiration for his subject illuminates the fire that burned within this “picador in the political corrida,” whose “irreverence was his banderilla.”

No, fraud is not a reason to take a pass on Radical but a cause to read it and be astonished. Even here, in this most affectionate of depictions, there can be no camouflaging that an “organizer” is a fraud through and through—in his tactics, in his motives, and in his carefully crafted self-image.

Take the organizer’s underlying premise: he presents himself as a builder of “small-d democracy.” “Democracy” is a codeword. To the unwary, it is drained of meaning, vaguely connoting a benign call to freedom and self-government. But for the revolutionary—and that’s what Alinsky’s radical is about, revolution—a democrat is the heroic Jacobin pitted in a fight to the finish against the evil, moneyed, ruling aristocrat. Life in America is a Manichean war in which the democrat inhabits the side of the angels.

Angels matter, by the way. Alinsky began Rules for Radicals—which was originally to be called Rules for the Revolution—with an “over the shoulder acknowledgment” of Lucifer as the “very first radical . . . who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom.” Inconvenient, and thus glossed over by Alinsky and von Hoffman, is the minor detail that the kingdom “won” by the fallen angel was . . . hell—a trenchant observation from the former radical turned patriot, David Horowitz, who acidly adds, “Typical of radicals not to notice the ruin they have left behind.” [emphasis mine]

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Once you understand the organizer’s game, everything else falls into place. He is in a duel to the death with unprecedented prosperity: a system in which the entrenched interests are formidable, in which the vast middle is more interested in being an entrenched interest than a revolutionary, and in which the riff-raff—with unemployment “insurance” now stretching 99 weeks and “poverty” measured by how few flat-screen TVs one can afford—have yet to realize how bad they have it. With the odds stacked against him, the organizer needs one thing and one thing alone: power. For organizing is not about improving the lives of the destitute. Saving them, von Hoffman observes, is a drain on the organizer’s sparse resources and energy. And for all the high-minded twaddle about democracy, it, too, turns out to be readily dispensable. “Democracy,” wrote Alinsky, “is not an end; it is the best political means available toward the achievement of [the organizer’s] values.” The organizer’s highest value is empowering the organizer.

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Obama Unhinged

Saul Alinsky

Lucifer, a/k/a Satan

Evil for the sake of evil

Following in the footsteps of Faust, Saul Alinsky learned from the Underworld in more than one sense of that word. Alinsky, in turn, became a primary mentor and role model to Barack Hussein Obama.

I acknowledge that it is rather unusual for evildoers to boast so openly about this particular source of “inspiration.” Maybe they expect to garner a certain cachet in radical chic circles. Be that as it may, no matter how entertaining that book supposedly is, I do not plan to read Radical. Neither von Hofmann nor any other evil pseudointellectual of the radical left deserves a single penny of my hard-earned wages.


Looks like we’re in for more massive dumocrap vote fraud attempts in the next week

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 179 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2010, Elections 2012, History, Liberal Fascism, Patriotism, Politics, Progressives at October 28th, 2010 - 11:30 am

We’re less than a week away from the mid-term elections, which will be the most important in decades, if we want to return America to its proper place, which is the most powerful nation on Earth, both economically and militarily.

And already numerous reports of vote fraud or “irregularities” are being reported, all over the country, and to no one’s surprise, all of them favoring the dumocraps.

Every time we read about voting irregularities, it ALWAYS favors the dumocraps. Every time. Michelle Malkin has a good column about Dumocrap vote fraud here.

Whether it’s people being paid or given a pack of cigarettes to vote, or people voting more than once, or SEIU union swine attempting to rig elections, or teachers’ unions giving gift cards and free food to people who vote for Harry Reid in Nevada, or uncounted ballots, almost all of them for the dumocrap candidate, miraculously being found in the strangest of places, or thousands of King County (which is Seattle and the surrounding area) “residents” registered to vote using non-residential addresses, such as police stations and even the county administration building, it’s always the dumocraps who are involved, and it always favors them. Always.

The only reason dumocrap Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington and Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota (and God only knows how many other dumocraps on the state and local level) are in office today is due to the dumocrap’s theft of these elections from the candidates who received the most votes, Republicans Dino Rossi and Norm Coleman, by demanding recount after recount, allowed by liberal judges and liberal election officials, until the results favored them.

Here’s something most of you probably didn’t know. Did you ever hear of “The Secretary of State Project”? Probably not.

In most states, it’s the Secretary of State who certifies elections, and decides if recounts are necessary.

Which brings us to that POS America-hating traitor George Soros-

-A Jew who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.

-Who came close to single-handedly bringing down the British economy in 1992 by manipulating the currency markets that cost British taxpayers almost $9 billion (in U.S. dollars) back then and almost brought down the Royal Bank of England.

-Was convicted in France of insider trading after an attempted takeover of the French bank Societe Generale and fined a paltry 2.3 million Francs.

“The Secretary of State Project” is wholly funded by Soros with the goal of getting as many dumocraps elected Secretaries of State so that they can do the dirty work of NOT certifying close elections won by Republicans, and allowing numerous recounts until the Dumocrap wins.

Al Gore and his band of liberal ambulance-chasing commie lawyers, with help from Florida’s liberal supreme court, tried to steal the 2000 election from not only President Bush, but more importantly, from the American people, by getting as many GOP votes and military absentee ballots as possible thrown out on the flimsiest of technicalities. We all remember the hanging chads bullshit.

It took Florida Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris to finally end Gore’s attempted “cherry-picking” of which counties’ votes would be recounted. Of course, Gore only wanted recounts in the dumocrapic counties.

I’m certain our racist Attorney General, Eric Holder, will not do anything to try to put a stop to this criminal activity. However, you can be certain he would if it was Republicans doing it.

I was in San Diego from December, 2000 to February, 2001, and we decided that we weren’t going to just sit by and let this happen by Gore without voicing our displeasure at this attempted theft, and that’s exactly what it was, a brazen attempt to steal the election from the majority of the American people.

We organized a protest and met at the San Diego County Courthouse on Broadway, and marched to the San Diego County Administration building on Pacific Highway, about two miles away.

Thousands of us showed up, as did all the local media, TV, radio, and print, and we got our point across, which was to warn the dumocraps that we weren’t going to take this attempted theft from these leftist crooks anymore without a fight.

This has got to be stopped, and I’ll do all I can to legally stop it, and I hope you will to. We can’t just sit back and let it happen again. If we do, they’ll keep doing it since they’ll think there will be no consequences to their illegal actions.

If all that’s not bad enough, I just came across this little nugget in the Washington Examiner: “Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid’s name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members”.

Yep, you read it right. In Nevada, there have been numerous complaints from people wanting to vote for Republican Sharron Angle that their ballots were “accidentally” marked as votes for Harry Reid!

Must be some kind of an innocent computer glitch, right? And it has nothing to do with the fact that the technicians who service these electronic voting machines are SEIU members, the same thug union that’s been at the forefront of vote fraud allegations across the USA for years and beat up a black republican in St. Louis in 2008 because he said he was voting for McCain. Nah, just a coincidence.