A Scary Preview of the Left's Plan for us all

I live in California . If you were wondering what living in Obama's
second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are
living there now.

California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democrat Left

enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and

state government is run by and for the public employee unions.

The unemployment rate is 12%.

California has more folks on food stamps than any other state, has added

so many benefits and higher rates to Medicaid that we call "Medi-Cal."

Our K-12 schools have more administrators than teachers, with smaller

classes but lower test scores and higher dropout rates with twice the

per-student budget of 15 years ago. Good job, Brownie.

This week, the once and current Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown had to

confess that the "balanced" state budget adopted five months ago was

billions in the red because actual tax revenues were billions lower than the

airy-fairy revenue estimates on which the balance was predicated.

After trimming legislators' perks and reducing the number of cell
phones provided to state civil servants, the governor intoned that
drastic budget reductions had already hollowed out state programs for

the needy, law enforcement and our schoolchildren. California

government needed more money.

Echoing the Occupy movement, the governor proclaimed the rich must

pay their fair share. Fair share? The top 1% of California income earners

currently pays 50% of the state's income tax.

California has seven income tax brackets. The top income tax rate is 9.3%,

which is slapped on the greedy rich earning at least $47,056 a year. Income

of more than $1 million pays the "millionaires' and billionaires'" surcharge

tax rate of 10.3%.

Brown's proposal would add 2% for income over $250,000. A million dollar

income would then be taxed at 12.3%. And that's just for the state.

Brown also proposed a one-half-cent sales tax increase, which would bring

sales taxes (which vary by county) up to 7.75% to as much as 10%.

Both tax increases would be on the ballot in 2012.

The sales tax increase proposal immediately brought howls of protest from

the Left (of Brown!). Charlie Eaton, a sociology grad student at UC Berkeley

and leader of the UC Student-Workers Union, said, "We've paid enough.

It's time for millionaires to pay."

At least five other ballot measures to raise taxes are circulating for
signatures to get on the 2012 ballot in California . The governor's
proposals are the most conservative.

The Obama way doesn't end with taxes.

The governor and the state legislature continue to applaud the efforts of the

California High Speed Rail Authority to build a train connecting Los Angeles

and San Francisco . Even though the budget is three times the voter-approved

amount, and the first segment will only connect two small towns in the agricultural

Central Valley. But hey, if we build it, they will ride.

And we don't want to turn down the Obama bullet-train bucks Florida and

other states rejected because the operating costs would bankrupt them.

Can't happen here because we're already insolvent.

If we get into real trouble with the train, we'll just bring in the Chinese.

It worked with the Bay Bridge reconstruction. After the 1989 earthquake,

the bridge connecting Oakland and San Francisco was rebuilt with steel

made in China . Workers from China too. Paid for with money borrowed

from China . Makes perfect sense.

In California , we hate the evil, greedy rich (except the rich in
Hollywood , in sports, and in drug dealing). But we love people

who have broken into California to eat the bounty created by the
productive rich.

Illegals get benefits from various generous welfare programs, free
medical care, free schools for their kids, including meals, and of
course, instate tuition rates and scholarships too. Nothing's too good for our guests.

To erase even a hint of criticism of illegal immigration, the
California Legislature is considering a unilateral state amnesty.
Democrat State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes has proposed an initiative

that would bar deportation of illegal’s from California .

Interesting dilemma for Obama there. If immigration is exclusively a

federal matter, and Obama has sued four states for trying to enforce

federal immigration laws he won't enforce, what will the President do

to a California law that exempts California from federal immigration law?

California is also near fulfilling the environmentalist dream of
deindustrialization.

After driving out the old industrial base (auto and airplane assembly, for example),

air and water regulators and tax policies are now driving out the high-tech, biotech

and even Internet-based companies that were supposed to be California 's future.

The California cap-and-trade tax on business in the name of reducing

CO2 makes our state the leader in wacky environmentalism and guarantees

a further job exodus from the state.

Even green energy companies can't do business in California . Solyndra

went under, taking its taxpayer loan guarantee with it.

No job is too small to escape the regulators. The state has even
banned weekend amateur gold miners from the historic gold

mining streams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains .

In fact, more and more of California 's public land is off-limits to
recreation by the people who paid for that land. Unless you're
illegal.

Then you can clear the land, set up marijuana plantations at will,
bring in fertilizers that legal farmers can no longer use, exploit
illegal farm workers who live in hovels with no running water or
sanitation, and protect your investment with armed illegals carrying

guns no California citizen is allowed to own.

The rest of us only found out about these plantations when the
workers' open campfire started one of those devastating fires that
have killed hundreds of people and burned out thousands of homes

in California over the last decade.

It's often said that whatever happens in California will soon happen in your state.

You'd better hope that's wrong.

A modern hero......or nightmare for Liberals ?

Well, early Saturday morning we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin , is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice President of The United States.

What are we to think of this selection? He's not a graduate of Columbia University . He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio. For God's sake the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another!

One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his father up and found him dead of a heart attack. He didn't write two books about that experience. Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution.

Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from Alzheimer, into the household and served as the primary care provider for his grandma. His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of "need".

Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's office. The job must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer. No one offered him a "token honor" position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary.

When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress he didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the office. In Janesville , Wisconsin they don't have a big political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents.

After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march into Washington , buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes.

Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville . He lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions.

For those who can't make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention.

No, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this. He doesn't have a regal pedigree; he's Irish for God's sake! No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected. No one threw flowers or got "chills down their leg" as a he took his seat in Congress.

What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to write the House Budget for three years in a row. He's is brazen and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in federal spending over the next ten years! The House passed his budget three years in a row and three years in a row the Democratically controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house, without ever proposing a budget of their own. What is wrong with this guy? If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget where would the President get the money to give $500 million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico ?

I don't know. Paul Ryan seems heartless to me. He keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit! The guy's no fun at all!

Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants someone spoiling the party by showing folks the bill? Nothing will spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before the party's over.

Party Hearty folks! At least until November.

THE COW AND THE ICE CREAM

THE COW AND THE ICE CREAM

ONE OF THE BEST THEORIES OF THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

From a teacher in the Nashville area

"We are worried about 'the cow' when it is all about the 'Ice Cream. 'The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching 3rd grade. The last Presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president. We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote. To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids.

I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support.

I had never seen Olivia's mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches.

Jamie went first.

He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place.

He ended by promising to do his very best.

Everyone applauded and he sat down.

Now is was Olivia's turn to speak.

Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down.

The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream."

She surely would say more. She did not have to.

A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. But no one pursued that question. They took her at her word.

Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it...She didn't know.

The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream...

Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 51.4 % of the people reacted like nine year olds.

They want ice cream.

The other 48.6% percent know they're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess."

This is the ice cream Obama promised us!

Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone that they have not first taken away from someone else.

Did you vote for the ice cream?

THAT, MY FRIEND, IS HOW OBAMA GOT ELECTED

Stupid is as stupid does.....

Stupid Is As Stupid Does

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves. 

Pause a moment, to reflect back.

These events are actual events from history.  They really happened!!!  Do you remember?

1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed, by a Muslim male.

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred, by Muslim males.

 3. In 1972 a Pan Am 747 was hijacked and eventually diverted to Cairo, where a fuse was lit on final approach and it was blown up shortly after landing, by Muslim males.

4. In 1973 a Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome, with 33 people killed, when it was attacked with grenades, by Muslim males.

 5. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over, by Muslim males.

6. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon, by Muslim males.

7. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up, by Muslim males.

8. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year Old American passengerwas murdered and thrown overboard, in his wheelchair, by Muslim males.

9. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked in Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescuepassengers,  was murdered, by Muslim males.

10. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed, by Muslim males.

11. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed, the first time, by Muslim males.

12. In 1998, the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, by Muslim males.

13. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed in to the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.  Thousands of people were killed, by Muslim males.

14. In 2002, the United States began fighting a war in Afghanistan, against Muslim males.

15. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by ---You guessed it--- Muslim males.

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling,o you? 

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people...

 Absolutely No Profiling!

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service Agents, who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner, and former Governor, Joe Foss...

But leave Muslim Males alone...lest they be guilty of profiling!

Have the American people completely lost their Minds?, or, just their Power of Reason?!

Let's send this to as many people as we can, so that the Gloria Allred's and other stupid attorneys,

along with Federal Justices who want to thwart common sense, -- feel ashamed of themselves --

If they have any such sense...

As the writer of the award-winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, 

'Stupid Is As Stupid Does' 

Each opportunity that you have to send this to a friend or Media outlet...