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The State of The Union

I'll save everyone some time - here's the State of The Union:

1. The majority of Americans doesn't want gov't takeover of health care (too bad - it's still being forced upon us).

2. We have a thief running the Treasury (Geithner), but so was his predecessor (Paulson). AIG was bailed out in order to turn over taxpayer money to Goldman Sachs.

3. Unemployment is double-digit. Any statistic that says the government "saved or created" X jobs uses accounting that would make Ken Lay of Enron blush.

4. Independents will control the direction of the politics for the foreseeable future. They were suckered into voting for President OBAMA! in 2008 and responded by voting for Republicans in VA, NJ and, most importantly, MA (hello Scott Brown, don't let us down).

5. The majority want tax cuts. Taxes and real prices have gone up since 2008.



I'll throw a plan out there; I can't take full credit for it, because I remember Michael Savage articulating a similar plan some time ago. If you want real economic growth, reduce tax rates across the board by 5%, reduce government spending by 10% (2% per year over 5 years) and eliminate the capital gains and dividend taxes. I'd say allow for the privatization of the Ponzi scheme known as Social Security, but I know that will never happen.

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Theft, Plain and Simple

Our friend Hugo Chavez announced that he was making his countries currency (ironically called the "Strong Bolivar" worth half of what it was worth a few days ago compared to the dollar, in a late-Friday night devaluation.  Of course, as a good dictator, he made the announcement by fiat, late on Friday and during  baseball game so that people weren't paying much attention.

Now, Comrade Chavez says that this is to help the poor.  How is this possible?  If someone had $1000 worth of Bolivars to his or her name and now they're worth $500, do you think that helps a poor person??

And of course, in order to tighten his vice-grip on the next of his subjects, Tzar Chavez said he would dispatch the army to ensure that business don't raise prices, threatening to seize businesses who raised their prices in response to Chavez stealing half of their currency's value.Let me understand this - if I owned a store, and bought a bag of rice for $20 worth of Bolivars and was selling it for $40 worth of Bolivars on Thursday, and the Bolivars were cut in half in value, that destroys my entire profit margin.  The socialist planned market is such a lovely thing, isn't it?

The worst part is that this thug was making nice with President OBAMA! a few months back; a sign of things to come, perhaps?

Marxism Trumps Racism

It's amazing that the Marxists in Washington, DC are supporting Harry Reid, in light of the report that Reid described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

This tells me one thing: the Marxist goal of socializing the health care system is more important than Reid's racist remark. It's clear that President OBAMA! and his allies need Reid as the crucial 60th vote.

Prediction: if the Republicans take Kennedy's old seat in Massachusetts' special election, Reid is done and will be forced out, because the Marxists won't have 60 votes. If the Republicans lose, Reid steps down after the health care vote, or bows out of re-election this fall.

Or, he'll just lose at the polls. Done deal - he's politically dead.