One cannot help but laugh at the antics of America's 'Progressive' in Chief and his gang of Chicago gangsters as they try to portray a 2.4% cut in a $3.8 trillion budget as a cataclysm of biblical proportions.
This is a classic example of the socialist mentality; they believe that the wealth of the nation belongs to them to spend on expanding entitlements, which in turn is designed to create more dependency and guarantee another term in office.
Watching the so called leader of the Free World throwing a tantrum so big that it eclipsed the debt he has created, coupled with threats to punish his disobedient subjects, made for compulsive viewing.
The king across the water, President Barack Hussein Obama seems to think that his subjects must believe every word he says and that every utterance must be treated seriously no matter how infantile or banal.
Unfortunately for the President, after the torrent of lies spewed forth by his cronies and media whores during his election campaign, and especially the lies over the recent Benghazi murder scandal, the American people have wizened up and subsequently treat every word he says with an entire Siberian salt mine.
To put the spending issue into some kind of perspective, the United States is as broke as Great Britain, Greece, Ireland and Bangladesh. It has a $16 trillion national debt which is travelling ever upwards due to deficit spending to the tune of +$1.1 trillion per year.
These socialist economic geniuses are borrowing approximately 40 cents of dollar they spend, some of it from countries who wish the American people harm.
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, the President and his apologists are still trying to convince the people that if only the 'rich' would pay their fair share then the budget deficit and debt problems will be cured.
Ever increasing numbers of the American people are not convinced. All the serious economists, including the non partisan Congressional Budget Office, have stated that if the 'rich' were taxed at 100% it would only pay for 3 months of government spending.
To keep pushing the line that the 'rich' are the cause of America's debt problem displays a fanatical adherence to an ideology comparable with the Heavens Gate suicide cult or the Reverend Jim Jones's kool aid drinking Peoples Temple.
The mindset that this perverted ideology breeds renders the socialist incapable of contemplating spending cuts. Even where examples of waste are pointed out, they still will not concede.
Allowing the people to keep more of their money and giving the government less is a retrograde step in their simple minds. Cutting government spending is heresy.
To give an example of the debauched mind of a socialist ideologue, the House Minority Leader, former Speaker and Obama lapdog, Nancy Pilosi, put it in simple terms.
"But spending is also related to tax cuts- tax cuts are spending".
So there you have it, the genius of socialist economic logic, if you want to decrease spending, don't let the people keep more of their own money.
As one pundit framed it, all the money you earn belongs to Pelosi on behalf the states She will spend it in ways that ensure equality and fairness and give you what's left as an allowance.
Just for the record it must be said that outside of her constituency in California, Pilosi is regarded as a nutcase and a dangerous nutcase at that.
As was stated earlier, the American people in ever greater numbers, are starting to think for themselves and are refusing to swallow the Obama spin machine propaganda. They are looking at the debt situation in Greece and Ireland and they have spotted the danger.
The informed American people demand the government stop the out of control spending and take action to deal with the crippling debt.
The much talked about sequestration is the result of an Obama political manoeuvre that went wrong. This locked the President into $84 billion of spending cuts which, as anyone can see, is a drop in the bucket in a $3.8 trillion budget. Just a rounding error as one economist put it.
According to the 'Progressive in Chief' and his ideological comrades, this is rank disobedience, tantamount to heresy and deserving of punishment. So after stamping his feet in a hissy fit of pique, comrade Obama ordered his operatives in government to first threaten his subjects and then make sure that any cuts would hurt the people directly.
The threats were unbelievably petty and banal which resulted in the informed people of America laughing in his face. It also allowed the rest of the world to get a brief insight into the infantile mind of an ideologically driven socialist who cannot accept being contradicted.
So in a budget of $3.8 trillion the sequester requires $84 billion of cuts. Both the House and Senate agree that there is circa $500 billion of waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security and other overlapping government programmes.
They also agree that there are government programmes that are duplicated or ineffective. In other words, there is plenty of room for more than $84 billion of cuts which would have no effect whatsoever, except among the beneficiaries of the aforementioned waste, fraud and abuse.
The people can take that to mean the crooked politicians themselves and their donors.
To punish the people for their temerity in demanding the government stop wasting their money, the
'Punisher in Chief' wants to leave the corruption and inefficiency untouched but to cut instead:
First responders such as firemen and paramedics.
Meat inspectors.
Border security which will allow in more illegal immigrants.
Airport security to ensure long queues at airports.
Air traffic controllers to make sure flights are delayed.
The military will be cut and an aircraft carrier will be recalled from the Gulf.
Prison staff, resulting in the release of 30,000 criminals, including illegal immigrant criminals. He also wants to keep it a secret from local law enforcement which prisoners are being released and where.
Park Rangers so that National Parks will be closed to visitors.
The janitors responsible for cleaning and maintaining the Houses of Congress. This is to punish the Congressmen for having the audacity of hope that he will cut spending.
With the adults duly punished the 'Punisher in Chief' doesn't stop there. Children must be taught the lesson too, that he who must be obeyed must not be challenged....ever.
Teachers are to be sacked therefore their education is affected.
Vaccination programmes for children will be curtailed, increasing their chances of illness.
Service providers will have to choose between the poor child and the disabled child when allocating resources.
Sure Start and Head Start programmes will be curtailed and places lost. This will disproportionally affect the most vulnerable children.
The most shocking of all, and the one that has pushed most people over the edge, is the Presidents order to cancel tours of the White House for school children. Apparently these tours are highly prized and a life time experience for school children.
This action against children is especially despicable as the cost of one of the Presidents golfing weekends would cover the cost of a whole years worth of tours.
Shame on you Mr President. Taking out your temper tantrum on children is unbecoming and demeaning to the Office of President of the United States.
This programme of cuts has to be the most infantile, petulant response to a call for fiscal responsibility from any politician, but from the leader of the Free World it is simply appalling.
What is obvious is that it is not an attempt at addressing the countries deficit and debt problem but an act of punishment on the American people for daring to insist their President puts the well being of the country before his perverted socialist ideology.
Watching this banal behavior of their President, the American people are slowly beginning to realise the mistake they made during the last election but, unlucky for them, they can't turn the clock back.
Elections have consequences, and in this case extremely bad ones. Hopefully, at next election cycle, our American cousins will have learned their lesson and they will ignore the media whores, think for themselves and put their country before all the 'free stuff' which somebody else has to pay for.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Government Spending Restraint - Draconian Cuts And Armaggedon Or Fiscal Responsibility
As the economies of the developed nations crash and burn under the weight of incompetent 'progressive' management, it has to be said that politicians around the world have completely run out of ideas. That is assuming they had any in the first place.
These governments are invariably made up of career politicians with no experience whatsoever in the real world of business or wealth creation and whose only policy appears to be ideologically driven Keynesian stimulus financed by taxing the people into poverty and borrowing from the next generations of our children.
These incompetents don't seem to be concerned that the debts they are accumulating are impoverishing the country for generations to come. I am beginning to wonder if this is a deliberate policy agenda to engineer equality and fairness by creating poverty for all instead of wealth because its easier to achieve.
It is almost as if this remote, global political elite are clones of each other, who speak the same language and use the same slogans and soundbites.
Any restraints at all on government spending is always described by the spin merchants and professional deceivers as draconian or savage, no matter how insignificant, and that they will always result in cuts to the government services upon which, in the spinners words, we all depend.
They are trying to imply that there is no waste whatsoever in the government machine and that every penny spent by the politicians is absolutely essential to the continuance of a worthwhile life.
The unfortunate thing about this nonsense is that millions of people who have the right to vote actually believe it.
As any student of the dark political arts will be aware the big issue in the USA at moment is sequestration. This is the system of across the board spending cuts put in place by President Obama as part of the manufactured 'fiscal cliff' and debt ceiling crisis.
This is an interesting story that demonstrates that the political classes both sides of the Atlantic are following the same agenda and are employing the same media management and propaganda techniques, so please bear with me as I give a brief history.
Just like Greece and the Eurozone, the American economy is bankrupt with unsustainable debts. These debts are fuelled by insane deficit spending by an ignorant and corrupt socialist Democrat political machine. This machine is opposed by a weak free enterprise inspired Republican opposition that barely clings to power in the House of Representatives.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, under the Constitution the House holds the purse strings and they are refusing to finance any more out of control deficit spending without a plan for bringing the federal budget back into balance.
The automatic spending cuts caused by sequestration are due to start March 1st but as we know, the Presidency and the Senate are held by the socialist Democrats who are opposed to any spending cuts at all, on ideological grounds. This is an identical stand as the socialist British Labour Party.
The 'Progressive in Chief' President Obama and his bag carriers went on the rhetorical rampage these past few days painting a terrifying picture of the apocalyptic doom that awaits the American people should these minor cuts take place.
Teachers will be sacked as schools will close, 1000 places will be lost on the Head Start/Sure Start programmes.
First responders such as firemen and paramedics will be rationed.
Children will not be vaccinated against disease.
The government must choose whether to support the disabled child or the poor child.
Meat inspectors will be sacked so expect poisoned burgers.
Border security will fall victim so more illegals will sneak through.
Airport security will be cut so there will be longer queues at the airports.
Air Traffic Controllers will be victims so even more delays at airports.
30,000 prisoners will be released from the jails including illegal immigrant criminals.
The military will be cut to the point where the nation may be unprotected.
An aircraft carrier will be recalled from the gulf.
Every American will be affected by the economic Armageddon that is about to befall the nation.
And so it goes on and on. The budget realists in the House of Representatives have opened the seven seals of the Apocalypse and unleashed the Anti-Christ on an unsuspecting and innocent nation.
Listening to this baloney I am reminded of the rhetoric employed by Britain's own 'progressives' including Red Ed Miliband's Labour Party. Its almost identical. One would think that the 'Progressive in Chief' of the USA and his political machine had hired the BBC to carry forth their propaganda.
In Great Britain any mention of spending cuts sends the 'progressive' left into apoplexy led by the so called 'impartial', publicly funded BBC.
Cuts are always described savage and draconian and the first to go are always nurses, doctors and teachers.
Next up are policemen, leaving communities at the mercy of criminals. (As if they weren't already).
Following close behind are local authority services for the disabled, Head Start places, rubbish collections, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Its as if every angel and saint on earth is being starved of life itself by the cruel, heartless Tories who only care about their 'rich' friends.
I am no supporter of the current detoxified Tories but if anyone is taken in by this embarrassing propaganda then all is lost. There is no hope for the nation.
To give this issue some perspective.
In the USA the politicians have racked up over $16.6 trillion of debt, approximately 106% of GDP. With budgets over $3 trillion of which around 40 cents of every dollar is borrowed.
The debt is on an ever upward trajectory.
The sequestration is $84 billion out $3.4 trillion annual budget or around 2.4%. Government spending is not being cut at all, the increase in spending is being slowed down ever so slightly.
To put the scale of the propaganda into proportion, both Houses of Congress have acknowledged that there is approximately $500 billion of waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare/Medicaid programmes alone. They also acknowledge that it is likely that there is a similar level of corruption in all other government departments.
There is no need for anyone but the criminal element in the American political system to be hurt by the cuts put in effect by sequestration.
In Great Britain its a similar story, there are no spending cuts at all. The rate of increase is being slowed down ever so slightly. Despite the rhetoric and propaganda by the political class and the BBC, at the end of this current Parliament, the government will have borrowed more than previous governments and the national debt will be higher not lower.
So why the apoplexy when government spending restraint is mentioned?
There are several reasons.
Firstly, 'progressive' governments the world over believe that they, and only they, have all the answers. They believe that if they control the wealth of the nation they can engineer 'fairness' for all.
Secondly, if the people are allowed to keep what they earn then the prudent would become more better off than others and that won't be 'fair'.
If everyone can't be prosperous then nobody can, this is the 'progressive' mentality.
Government dependency means more votes. Dependency means power, hence dependency is actively encouraged and expanded by the cynical political class.
Thirdly, if government spending and taxes were cut and the people allowed to keep what they earn, they would eventually become prosperous and economically independent of government.
In effect this would be a redistribution of power from the politicians to the people and nothing scares the political class more than the prospect of losing power.
Fourthly, if this prosperity could be handed down to the following generation, then financial independence from government would be for ever, it would be a natural progression. Politicians would be reduced to a minor role with limited functions such as defence of the Realm.
The reason why British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has broken his promise on Inheritance Tax now becomes a bit more apparent.
In conclusion it can be summed up as follows:
High government spending financed by high taxation means a power transfer from the people to the government. It means mediocrity and equality of misery for the majority with wealth and perpetual power for the privileged political class.
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Eastleigh Byelction Final Update:
With only hours to go, the voters should have made up their minds by now. They cannot, in all seriousness, even consider voting for the corrupt, lying and criminal Lib Dems.
This weeks revelations of their lying, crooked ways should have put the final nail in their coffin.
The voters should bear in mind that a vote for any of the major parties is a wasted vote as they all stand for the same thing. This includes selling them out to the EU and the imminent invasion of tens of thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian economic migrants and criminals.
It will mean deficits and debts which will impoverish your children and future generations.
Your fellow Brits are urging you on to vote for one of the alternative parties and send the political class a message they will never forget.
Eastleigh would go down in history as the place where the people finally started to take their country back.
Latest betting odds
Lib Dum - 1/4 on
Conservative - 5/1
UKIP - 6/1
Labour - 100/1
Another bright spot is that the Independent Party led by Danny Stupple has closed from 500/1 to 200/1. Good for you Danny.
These governments are invariably made up of career politicians with no experience whatsoever in the real world of business or wealth creation and whose only policy appears to be ideologically driven Keynesian stimulus financed by taxing the people into poverty and borrowing from the next generations of our children.
These incompetents don't seem to be concerned that the debts they are accumulating are impoverishing the country for generations to come. I am beginning to wonder if this is a deliberate policy agenda to engineer equality and fairness by creating poverty for all instead of wealth because its easier to achieve.
It is almost as if this remote, global political elite are clones of each other, who speak the same language and use the same slogans and soundbites.
Any restraints at all on government spending is always described by the spin merchants and professional deceivers as draconian or savage, no matter how insignificant, and that they will always result in cuts to the government services upon which, in the spinners words, we all depend.
They are trying to imply that there is no waste whatsoever in the government machine and that every penny spent by the politicians is absolutely essential to the continuance of a worthwhile life.
The unfortunate thing about this nonsense is that millions of people who have the right to vote actually believe it.
As any student of the dark political arts will be aware the big issue in the USA at moment is sequestration. This is the system of across the board spending cuts put in place by President Obama as part of the manufactured 'fiscal cliff' and debt ceiling crisis.
This is an interesting story that demonstrates that the political classes both sides of the Atlantic are following the same agenda and are employing the same media management and propaganda techniques, so please bear with me as I give a brief history.
Just like Greece and the Eurozone, the American economy is bankrupt with unsustainable debts. These debts are fuelled by insane deficit spending by an ignorant and corrupt socialist Democrat political machine. This machine is opposed by a weak free enterprise inspired Republican opposition that barely clings to power in the House of Representatives.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, under the Constitution the House holds the purse strings and they are refusing to finance any more out of control deficit spending without a plan for bringing the federal budget back into balance.
The automatic spending cuts caused by sequestration are due to start March 1st but as we know, the Presidency and the Senate are held by the socialist Democrats who are opposed to any spending cuts at all, on ideological grounds. This is an identical stand as the socialist British Labour Party.
The 'Progressive in Chief' President Obama and his bag carriers went on the rhetorical rampage these past few days painting a terrifying picture of the apocalyptic doom that awaits the American people should these minor cuts take place.
Teachers will be sacked as schools will close, 1000 places will be lost on the Head Start/Sure Start programmes.
First responders such as firemen and paramedics will be rationed.
Children will not be vaccinated against disease.
The government must choose whether to support the disabled child or the poor child.
Meat inspectors will be sacked so expect poisoned burgers.
Border security will fall victim so more illegals will sneak through.
Airport security will be cut so there will be longer queues at the airports.
Air Traffic Controllers will be victims so even more delays at airports.
30,000 prisoners will be released from the jails including illegal immigrant criminals.
The military will be cut to the point where the nation may be unprotected.
An aircraft carrier will be recalled from the gulf.
Every American will be affected by the economic Armageddon that is about to befall the nation.
And so it goes on and on. The budget realists in the House of Representatives have opened the seven seals of the Apocalypse and unleashed the Anti-Christ on an unsuspecting and innocent nation.
Listening to this baloney I am reminded of the rhetoric employed by Britain's own 'progressives' including Red Ed Miliband's Labour Party. Its almost identical. One would think that the 'Progressive in Chief' of the USA and his political machine had hired the BBC to carry forth their propaganda.
In Great Britain any mention of spending cuts sends the 'progressive' left into apoplexy led by the so called 'impartial', publicly funded BBC.
Cuts are always described savage and draconian and the first to go are always nurses, doctors and teachers.
Next up are policemen, leaving communities at the mercy of criminals. (As if they weren't already).
Following close behind are local authority services for the disabled, Head Start places, rubbish collections, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Its as if every angel and saint on earth is being starved of life itself by the cruel, heartless Tories who only care about their 'rich' friends.
I am no supporter of the current detoxified Tories but if anyone is taken in by this embarrassing propaganda then all is lost. There is no hope for the nation.
To give this issue some perspective.
In the USA the politicians have racked up over $16.6 trillion of debt, approximately 106% of GDP. With budgets over $3 trillion of which around 40 cents of every dollar is borrowed.
The debt is on an ever upward trajectory.
The sequestration is $84 billion out $3.4 trillion annual budget or around 2.4%. Government spending is not being cut at all, the increase in spending is being slowed down ever so slightly.
To put the scale of the propaganda into proportion, both Houses of Congress have acknowledged that there is approximately $500 billion of waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare/Medicaid programmes alone. They also acknowledge that it is likely that there is a similar level of corruption in all other government departments.
There is no need for anyone but the criminal element in the American political system to be hurt by the cuts put in effect by sequestration.
In Great Britain its a similar story, there are no spending cuts at all. The rate of increase is being slowed down ever so slightly. Despite the rhetoric and propaganda by the political class and the BBC, at the end of this current Parliament, the government will have borrowed more than previous governments and the national debt will be higher not lower.
So why the apoplexy when government spending restraint is mentioned?
There are several reasons.
Firstly, 'progressive' governments the world over believe that they, and only they, have all the answers. They believe that if they control the wealth of the nation they can engineer 'fairness' for all.
Secondly, if the people are allowed to keep what they earn then the prudent would become more better off than others and that won't be 'fair'.
If everyone can't be prosperous then nobody can, this is the 'progressive' mentality.
Government dependency means more votes. Dependency means power, hence dependency is actively encouraged and expanded by the cynical political class.
Thirdly, if government spending and taxes were cut and the people allowed to keep what they earn, they would eventually become prosperous and economically independent of government.
In effect this would be a redistribution of power from the politicians to the people and nothing scares the political class more than the prospect of losing power.
Fourthly, if this prosperity could be handed down to the following generation, then financial independence from government would be for ever, it would be a natural progression. Politicians would be reduced to a minor role with limited functions such as defence of the Realm.
The reason why British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has broken his promise on Inheritance Tax now becomes a bit more apparent.
In conclusion it can be summed up as follows:
High government spending financed by high taxation means a power transfer from the people to the government. It means mediocrity and equality of misery for the majority with wealth and perpetual power for the privileged political class.
==========================================
Eastleigh Byelction Final Update:
With only hours to go, the voters should have made up their minds by now. They cannot, in all seriousness, even consider voting for the corrupt, lying and criminal Lib Dems.
This weeks revelations of their lying, crooked ways should have put the final nail in their coffin.
The voters should bear in mind that a vote for any of the major parties is a wasted vote as they all stand for the same thing. This includes selling them out to the EU and the imminent invasion of tens of thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian economic migrants and criminals.
It will mean deficits and debts which will impoverish your children and future generations.
Your fellow Brits are urging you on to vote for one of the alternative parties and send the political class a message they will never forget.
Eastleigh would go down in history as the place where the people finally started to take their country back.
Latest betting odds
Lib Dum - 1/4 on
Conservative - 5/1
UKIP - 6/1
Labour - 100/1
Another bright spot is that the Independent Party led by Danny Stupple has closed from 500/1 to 200/1. Good for you Danny.
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