Posts Made By: david elosser

It never amazes me how Congress's first and often only solution to any problem is to raise taxes, as if raising taxes ever solved any problem. Now, the quadruple tax increase on a barrel of oil to from 8 cents to 32 cents would mean no real impact at the pump: thousands of products are made from one barrel of oil that the money would be dispersed into. But does anyone really think that money would go into a "trust fund" just like, say, Social Security? That trust fund worked out really well, didn't it? Obama and his administration has been pounding the tables shouting that BP will pay for any and all damages as a result of the oil spill. Well, okay, but if they are going to pay for it just why do we need any tax for that purpose anyway? If you need any proof this money is just for a slush fund: "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the tax increase was hastily put together, without adequate study, to help pay for an unrelated bill. The tax increase was unveiled Thursday, without any congressional hearings to study its impact."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FTDV7O1&show_article=1

David E

...wealth redistribution!

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds...At the same time, government-provided benefits -from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs- rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

Finally! A policy success Obama can be proud of!

The trend is not sustainable, says University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes. Reason: The federal government depends on private wages to generate income taxes to pay for its ever-more-expensive programs. Government-generated income is taxed at lower rates or not at all, he says. "This is really important," Grimes says.

Well, shut my mouth! Who wudda ever figgered that!

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-05-24-income-shifts-from-private-sector_N.htm

David E

...you might as well wait until Hell freezes over.

"[Louisiana Governor] Jindal is still waiting for the federal government to provide millions of feet in boom and to approve an emergency permit for a state plan to dredge and build new barrier islands to keep the oil from reaching the marshes and wetlands...Jindal is so desperate for the islands, he's said he'll build them even if it sends him to jail."

"It is clear [the Obama Administration doesn't] have the resources we need to protect our coast," the Republican said. "We need more boom, more skimmers, more vacuums, more jack-up barges that are still in short supply. Let's be clear: Every day that this oil sits is one more day that more of our marsh dies."

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-asks/story?id=10731680&page=2

David E

[SIZE="Large"]Gov. Christie: We're Not Raising Taxes[/SIZE]
"We're very confident we've been able to close the additional budget gap in (fiscal year) 2010 and in (fiscal year) 2011 we're going to be able to solve that problem without any new taxes at all and without any real significant cuts," Christie said.
Skipping the "fiscalese," what happened was the budget freeze imposed by Gov. Christie when he took office generated more savings than expected, enough to cover much of the lost tax money.
http://wcbstv.com/politics/chris.christie.new.2.1714647.html

David E

"This scandal could be enormous," said Dick Morris, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, on the Fox News Sean Hannity show last night. "It's Valerie Plame only 10 times bigger, because it's illegal and Joe Sestak is either lying or the White House committed a crime.

What is Dic Morris talking about? Well, The controversy revolves around an oft-repeated statement by Rep. Sestak, D-Pa., that he had been offered a job by the Obama administration in exchange for dropping out of the senatorial primary against Obama supporter Sen. Arlen Specter..."They tried to bribe me out of the race by offering me a job." [Sestak] said on Greta Van Susteran's "On the Record" program on the Fox News Channel.

Yeah, and if true that's a felony, and if Obama knew about it, or tried or is trying to cover it up, that looks to me like an impeachable offense. And Sestak may not be the only one: WND previously reported on the Sestak controvesy and a similar one concerning a Democrat Senate candidate in Colorado, Andrew Romanoff. The Denver Post said Jim Messina, Obama's deputy chief of staff and "a storied fixer in the White House political shop, suggested a place for Romanoff might be found in the administration and offered specific suggestions."

And this paragraph is pretty damning to the administration: The report said Romanoff turned down the overture, but it is "the kind of hardball tactics that have come to mark the White House's willingness to shape key races across the country, in this case trying to remove a threat to a vulnerable senator by presenting his opponent a choice of silver or lead."

This is serious stuff, and you can bet your last unemployment check (which may be coming very soon) that if Obama were a Republican president, Pelosi and the Democrats would at least be holding Congressional hearings if not drawing up impeachment papers even as we speak.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=158617

David E

The Democrats who control the [California] Legislature have fired their opening salvo against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's spending blueprint, which proposed eliminating California's welfare program and cutting deeply into other state services, by proposing that the state rely instead on billions of dollars in new taxes to balance the budget.

The new taxes, I'm sure will not be raised on the middle class, just as Obama has promised. They include:

1) tax oil companies and borrow billions from the nickel-and-dime deposits that consumers make on recyclable bottles and cans.

2) tax breaks for businesses would be delayed.

3) vehicle license fees would rise by $1.2 billion.

4) taxes on alcohol would increase 60%.

5) (I'm sure there's plenty others not mentioned in the article.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget-taxes-20100526,0,6976675.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29

Hmmm, good thing the California Democrats took positive action earlier this year!
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_14470806?source=rss

David E

What can I say, the article speakes for itself. This is the Obama administration at work! (Or, more accurately, NOT! :S )
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/two_more_census_workers_blow_the_OqY80N3DBTvL17VmxKKR0O

David E

Why hasn't Obama thought of this? He's smart enough to take over out health care, financial system, and run huge car companies...


The suck-and-salvage technique was developed in desperation across the Arabian Gulf following a spill of mammoth proportions - 700 million gallons - that has until now gone unreported, as Saudi Arabia is a closed society, and its oil company, Saudi Aramco, remains owned by the House of Saud. But in 1993 and into '94, with four leaking tankers and two gushing wells, the royal family had an environmental disaster nearly sixty-five times the size of Exxon Valdez on its hands, and it desperately needed a solution.

Basically, empty oil tankers team up to suck up the oil, as much as they can off the top and just below the surface, process it, and dump the mostly clean water back into the sea.

...Pozzi and his team came up with the idea of having empty ships park near the Saudi spill and pull the oil off the water. This part of the operation went on for six months, with the mop-up operations lasting for several years more. Pozzi says that 85 percent of the spilled oil was recovered, and it is precisely this strategy that he wants to see deployed in the Gulf of Mexico.


Keep in mind that what supertankers typically do is they sit in the middle of the ocean waiting for all the traders to come up with the right price. When they feel that the price is right, the tankers that are full, they take off, and they can be anywhere in the world in a few days. Right now there are probably 25 supertankers, waiting for orders, full of oil. So all they got to do is come to Texas, in the Gulf, unload the oil, and then turn around and suck up all this other stuff and pump it onto shore into on-shore storage. It's not rocket science. It's so simple. It's a Robinson Crusoe fix, but it works.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-supertankers-051310

David E

While President Hussein Obama and the Dems have pushed us more and more toward public health care, Canada is trying to find ways to keep up with theirs.

Healthcare in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded system, which covers all "medically necessary" hospital and physician care and curbs the role of private medicine. It ate up about 40 percent of provincial budgets, or some C$183 billion ($174 billion) last year.

Quebec has a new flat health tax and a proposal for payments on each medical visit. (Translation: you ain't giving us enough money to keep this up.)

And a few provinces are also experimenting with private funding for procedures such as hip, knee and cataract surgery. (Translation: you can't see or walk, you'll have to pay for it yourself.)

Ontario says healthcare could eat up 70 percent of its budget in 12 years, if all these costs are left unchecked. Translation: just take a pill.

Scotia Capital's Webb said one cost-saving idea may be to make patients aware of how much it costs each time they visit a healthcare professional. "(The public) will use the services more wisely if they know how much it's costing," she said.
Well, you're almost swerving into the truth: people know how much something costs when they pay for it themselves, right? Like hip replacements and cataract surgery...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100531/hl_nm/us_health_3

David E

Californians are so upset over Arizona's tough new discriminatory and racist immigration laws, they want to make it easier for illegals to gain access into California, especially the Los Angeles area. They have allowed the government of Mexico to open its first office dedicated to printing and providing documents for illegal Mexicans (whose only desire, of course, is simply to live the better life here in the US.)

"This is a huge step in the right direction," President Obama told LA-Times reporters. US Attorney General Eric Holder was also pleased: "I have looked into this and, although I havn't read the lease agreements, the new Mexican office is perfectly legal." he told CNN World News Tonight. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said she is not worried about any possibility of terrorists gaining easier access into the US: "This is simply overblown," she said, "categorizing these people as terrorists is simply racist, and I won't tolerate it."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Mexico-opens-California-office-to-provide-ID-for-illegals-95434969.html

David E