But Wait, There's More

My good friend Cato has sent me something that he encountered on his walks about the Forum. I post his guest article here....
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From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/5374095/British-banks-revolt-against-Obama-tax-plan.html

"..... British banks revolt against Obama tax plan. British banks and stockbrokers may refuse to take on American clients if new international tax proposals outlined by President Obama are passed.The decision, which would make it hard for Americans in London to open bank accounts and trade shares, is being discussed by executives at Britain's banks and brokers who say it could become too expensive to service American clients. The proposals, which were unveiled as part of the president's first budget, are designed to clamp-down on American tax evaders abroad. However bank bosses say they are being asked to take on the task of collecting American taxes at a cost and legal liability that are inexpedient."


What idiotic incompetence! Now Obama wants foreign banks to get entangled in enforcing our tax laws, just like he wanted foreign governments to take on Guantanamo prisoners. This guy takes no responsibility for anything and is arrogant enough to think that the whole world is going to bow down to the Anointed One.

There is a common pattern here. Just as Germany asked Obama, “Well if terrorists aren’t dangerous, why don’t you keep them?”, so England’s banks are rightly saying. “Ain’t our problem, Obama.” But this is all part of Obama’s welfare mentality: why take responsibility for your problems if you can get someone else to take care of them?
~ Cato

Gun Control

In Texas, a woman was called in front of a grand jury for possible manslaughter charges after she shot a mugger in the back six times as he was running away with her purse. He had grabbed her purse and ran. She had her hand on her gun in side the purse and when he ran with the purse she was left holding just the gun. When asked by the grand jury why she shot him six times, in the back as he was running, under oath she replied “ Because when I pulled the trigger the 7th time, it only went click.” She was acquitted of all charges. That’s the way it is in Texas.

~sent in by Ann

Obama- It''s All About ME

"I will only send you into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary ....."
~ Obama, addressing the 2009 graduating class at the US Naval Academy

Any other person, out of decorum for the office of the Presidency, would have said, "You will not be sent ..", but not this guy. With this guy, it is all about him! Look over his speeches and his press conferences and here is want you will find:
" I this" ... "I that" ... "I"... "I" ... "I"

He is worse than Alciabades. Indeed, he imagines himself a Caesar.

California Dreaming (for Gvt Bailout)

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzI3OGZlMjlkMGMwY2I5Yzg4YjdkYTNlNTFiZmIxNmU#more

Great – now we are not only subsidizing irresponsible people who cannot pay their mortgages, but talking about subsidizing entire states that spend recklessly!

Oh well, all long as I can still get "mine" at your expense, then everything is OK by me. THAT is the mood of the day.

On Charitable Contributions

OK, I admit it, sometimes I am slow on the uptake, and I confess that it took me a while to understand the implications of the Obama proposal to eliminate the tax deduction on charitable contributions.

Here is the reason Obama wants to do this - Obama is a collectivist and he wants NOTHING to come but through the government. The entire thrust of his Administration is to complete the attachment of the people to the government so that the citizens are reduced to a people of the government, rather than a government of the people. For this reason, he must sever all connection of the people to any entity other than the government.

How Did It Get Like This? Part 2

Just got off the phone with Rush and he asked me when I thought it was going to get better.

I told him that it will get better when the people who go into Starbuck's begin to understand that selling water to "help starving children in Africa or wherever" (the Starbucks "Ethos" water), is all about things OTHER than helping starving children in Africa.

I also told him that that it will get better when people finally get it that the "green movement" is really the "Green $$ movement".

~Seneca

How Did It Get Like This?

5/15/09
Rush Limbaugh just finished asking the radio audience something along the lines of "How can it be that it has gotten to this point. " (The government involvement in health care and everything else.)

The short answer: Rush, it has gotten this way because the vast bulk of the people want it this way.

And when I say "the people", I do not mean commie-pinko-Russian flag-waving nut jobs. I mean the bulk of the American people. This includes Democrats and Republicans of almost all stripes.

You heard it here first folks: Obama will have a 2d term. So, then, go ahead and sip your sissy-man triple super latte as you watch the next 25 years of destruction of the country. And go ahead and vote for that "other guy' because you think he is different that those evil "other guys".

Folks, Statism is Statism - whether it comes from a Democrat, or whether it comes from somebody calling themselves a Republican, for both are for big government, just big government for different purposes.

To prove the point, try this test. Tell a Republican that we need to do away with the income tax, they will say "But what about...."; Ask a Republican how they would feel if the Chinese Navy decided to run naval war games in the Gulf of Mexico and point out the parallel to US ships in the Indian Ocean or the Gulf of Arabia and they will say "But what about...." ; Tell a Republican that the American citizen should not be taxed to send money to Africa or elsewhere and they will say "But what about...."; Tell a Republican that people should pay for their own health care and not expect the governement to chip in one dime, and they will protest "But what about...." ; Tell a Republican that when their parents get old and they have to put them in a nursing home at $40k/year, that they should themselves be responsible for the cost, and they will say "But what about...." and proceed to tell you that it is just "too expensive" for them to pay, and that THE STATE should "help them out".

Go ahead. Just try it and you will find out exactly why we are in the situation that we are in.