GM is already in the middle of it’s transformation to an EV manufacturer. And they are doing a yeoman’s job of it. And the only place you hear the BK story is… right here at GM-VOLT. Curious, and curiouser!

As long as they have guns, they are a danger to us all. It is better not to confront them, as their grip on reality can easily snap. Don’t worry – we have a plan to return all the guns to our Party controlled military. We tested it in New Orleans before the hurricane hit, and it was a big success. Our agents were able to collect over 90 percent of the guns on the registered handgun list, using a cover story about “keeping them out of the hands of looters”. We did have to give most of them back – eventually, after many of them rusted beyond use. The federal government will be under no such obligation.

Once guns are no longer a problem, we can use the national health system to help people like #134 “Patriot in Austin”. He clearly has mental health issues, but with proper care, he can be returned to society as a happy, well-adjusted citizen. I feel we can help almost all of the people with mental issues which cause right-wing thoughts. The few we cannot treat will be kept out of society, and made comfortable until a treatment can be found, or they pass away. All will receive compassionate care, and that is a promise from the Party to you.

Remember what we taught you: forced sharing is caring, nothing really “belongs” to anyone but the State, and people must always be protected from making bad choices (as defined by the Party). If you see any bad behaviors like someone smoking, driving a Hummer, eating fast food, etc (see encrypted Party website for full list), report it to your local Democratic Party official. You will receive instructions on protesting, and media coverage will be arranged through our Party television network stations.

Again, thank you for your support. You both may expect a box of delicious Obama’s Reserve chocolate chip cookies by mail, as a reward for loyalty to the Party.

Sincerely,
Harry Reid, acting Democratic Socialist Party chairman.

Next thing you know, you’ll be trying to tell the poor guy he’s descended from a monkey, LOL. My advice is to save the wear and tear on your poor fingers. Arthritis sets in soon enough as it is. You might as well try to have a polite debate with the wall.

It’s gonna have to get a lot worse before these types finally have to face the truth. Denial rules the world.

The result of all this is more extreme weather patterns – more droughts, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more floods, – here’s a good example:
Red River reaches record level, floods Fargo with uncertainty
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/03/27/north.dakota.flooding/index.html

Also, we see average temperatures at high elevations increasing, and this has melted most of the snow pack that supplies our aquifers during the summer, which means we will start to see severe water shortages…

Meanwhile, the average temperatures across most fo the U.S. is about the same.

That’s why they call it Climate Change, because that’s what we’ll notice most.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03262009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/canadacare_may_have_killed_natasha_161372.htm

“Richardson died of an epidural hematoma — a bleeding artery between the skull and brain that compresses and ultimately causes fatal brain damage via pressure buildup. With prompt diagnosis by CT scan, and surgery to drain the blood, most patients survive.

Could Richardson have received this care? Where it happened in Canada, no. In many US resorts, yes. ”

There are more CAT scanners in you average size US city than in Quebec Province. Bureaucrats in socialized healthcare find rationing more conveninet than do the patients.

— which will happen once the baby boomers retire and we see the worker to retiree ratio go down even more, turning the Social Security/medicare ponzi/Madoff scheme into a demographic nighmare.

It was irresponsible for the Democrats to oppose social security reform in 2005 at a time when we could have done seomthing.

Now Obama wants to squander $600 *billion* on a mere ‘downpayment’ on socialized medicine ON TOP of his $1 trillion faux stimulus boondoggles and as part of $16 TRILLION of spending in only the next 4 years!!

This massive and huge overspending will bankrupt America ON TOP of the unsustainable situation we have looming in entitlements.

“Then the administration is forced to actually move on it, which means raising the money/printing the money…or changing the benchmarks of payment.”

… Uh yes, and after Obama has squandered and looted America’s wealth, as he plans, the only solution that will be left 8-10 years down the road to ‘fixing’ this mess will be hyperinflation or the bankruptcy of the US Government.

The US Govt has ‘fixed’ every previous bubble with a new bubble – Obama’s bubble is the BIG GOVT BUBBLE. When it pops, it will be very ugly.

Um, no. C02 is consumed by plants, fixed by ocean carbonates, it doesnt go everywhere.
Its a wonderful molecule that is not harming the planet, so stop beating it up. Without CO2 there would be no life on earth. And if you think global warming is happening, check the last 10 years – there has been no net global warming since 1998!

The outrage should be directed at the buffoons in the Democrat Congress and Obama for their dasterdly bait-and-switch attempt to impose more socialism in America via the faux stimulus and Federal over-spending. It was not a stimulus. They demanded that states change laws in order to ‘accept’ this money – change the laws in ways that would saddle TEXAS taxpayers with more taxes-spending and an expanded welfare state once the money runs out – in 2011 in the case of unemployment program, similarly with SCHIP.

This is the socialist politicians moral equivalent of a drug dealer giving free samples. Obama and the Democrats in Congress want to hook all 50 states on expanded government. it’s an outrage that they loaded up their bills with such onerous ’strings’. The SCHIP expansion to people making $80,000 is an outrage, becase we know that people making a lot less than that will pay sales taxes and other taxes to support this program. Dumb idea for this ‘downpayment on socialized medicine’.

Here’s a better plan: Repeal the stimulus, repeal the ill-conceived schip expansion and its tax increase, and instead send the money back to the states entirely and let the state’s decide on their own how to fund and what do to. Then, fiscally responsible states like Texas will be able to manage well, as they have in the past, and it wont turn into another hell-hole mis-managed state like Cali, which tax-and-borrow-and-spent itself into near bankruptcy.

It is the taxpayer’s money. It was just plundered/taken by force. If I steal your car and drive it around, is it my car.

“When I pay property taxes for the last 30 years in order to put everyone else’s kids through grade school and junior college”

With the money you saved had you not been forced by law to pay that tax, you could have paid for your own child’s education on a superior basis. In Texas, this is probably true of most of us who are not illegal aliens, since the public school system is primarily in Texas a system that takes from property owners to spend (about 30%) on illegal immigrants’ kids education. Austin ISD spends/wastes $9,000 a year to mis-educate kids, and has managed to have multiple failing/substandard schools, and there are better private schools in Austin charging $3500 (Strickland) to $6,000 (local parochial schools) per year that do better.

“Taxes are collected for the common good.”

Do you believe in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy as well?

Taxes take from the productive working wealth creators and give to the politically connected looters of this nation. Except for a few exceptions like national defense, the ‘common good’ would be better served by keeping that money away from corrupt politicians and their looting friends, who end up spending the money far less responsibly than the taxpayers who created the wealth in the first place.

Obama signed a trillion dollar spending boondoggle which included a provision to allow AIG to give millions in bonuses. That was just ONE of many provisions that were never discussed *before* the bill was passed, in a mad rush by the Democrats in Congress to throw taxpayer money away. Was the bill a good bill? If it was so great, why is Obama and Dodd now lying about not knowing about provisions they *wrote* and *signed off on*?

And that is just a tip of the iceberg. Most of the waste, abuse and fraud goes on and is ignored in the huge behemoth spending spree.

“Those monies are either used prudently by elected officials (with common sense for the common good, as in bringing forth green electric motoring for us all),”

If this is green motoring is such a great idea, let entrepreneurs and the market develop it on a self-funding basis. Dont loot taxpayers for your favorite eco-tech dreams. Govt has already pumped tens of billions into ‘green energy’ research, hydrogen car research, alt. energies. Most of it ends up wasted. Why? Because Govt is incapable of careful stewardship of money – different from say a VC firm, which at least which grade the return on investment. Not a single Govt bureaucrat gets fired because his program is non-economical. They arent SUPPOSED to be. Result: We inevitable fund more losers than winners, funding bad economics over good economics.

” or, taxes squandered by those elected officials too closely tied with an unearned heritage or influence of power and wealth.”

Which is the far more COMMON result! (Actually, it is the generally inevitable result – you need to read Bastiat’s “The Law”, as the injustice that results from the politics of plunder is a universal law.)

At our Federal level, we see taxpayer money squandered on pork barrel highway projects that should be state-funded or more equitably decided. Squandered on wasteful and counterproductive ethanol subsidies. Squandered on racist ‘diversity’ programs and counterproductive regulations (Sarbanes-oxley) that stunt our economy.
Squandered on an $80 billion Dept of Education that is a net MINUS to the learning of kids, part of a wider wasteful education system that spends less that 60% of the money in the classroom and wastes billions on programs that dont work, harm kids (bilingual education) or dumbs them down into mediocrity.
Squandered on trillion-dollar boondoggles (Obama’s faux ’stimulus’) that will push our debts onto the next generation. Squandered on an over-expansive welfare-stimulus-subsidy-socialist economy that was only 18% of GDP a few years back but thanks to the massive overspending in Washington will soak up 27% of our GDP. This massive distortion of economics is harmful to our freedom as well as our prosperity.

Desiring the destruction of our freedom and prosperity just so you can get some feeble subsidy for the GM Volt reminds me of that retort in the “Man for all Seasons”, Thomas More telling the sellout who perjured himself so he could get a govt job in Wales: “You did it for *Wales?* I mean are you that serious, that you’d give up freedom and prosperity, and stick taxpayers with a huge bill, just so you could buy your favorite PHEV for a bit less money? And you are self-delusional enough to think this sellout and assault on your fellow citizens’ freedom and wallet is a ‘common good’?

Socialism sucks.