50 Examples of Government Waste | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

50 Examples of Government Waste | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Every year on tax day (April 15th for those who don't pay taxes) I post to Facebook and MySpace a "feel the rage".

Every year I also have liberal friends reply with the obvious lunacy of "Gee Neal, don't you want highways,parks, library's, schools, and police and fire protection?"

Well of course I do, but what our government takes from us and how it applies the confiscation of our property is criminal.

I do this exercise every year to promote awareness and get people thinking.

If each individual in America were to sit down and start adding up everywhere they pay taxes and truly start asking themselves "am I getting my money's worth?" I am certain the answer would be rather obvious.

In fact if private companies were to operate in such a fashion their executives would be put in jail and they would be run out of business.

The link above is a great example of where you are 50 examples provided by the Heritage Foundation promoting where you are not getting your money's worth.

So yeah.. feel the rage...

Small Minds Lynn Ashby's Treason Season - Monday, November 02, 2009 - Copyright 2007 Ourtribune.com

Treason Season - Monday, November 02, 2009 - Copyright 2007 Ourtribune.com

Lynn Ashby's editorial "Treason Season" from November 2 railed against those here in America that are advocates for the War on Terrorism. His underlying theme was to allude that advocates for the War on Terror are akin to the rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany. He never goes any deeper than the accusation except to start attacking individuals rather than draw relevant historical comparisons.

Typical of most opinion makers on the left Mr. Ashby focuses his attention on attacking the individuals he opposes rather than the substance of their arguments.

Moreover, and more offensive, he tries to pin an emergence of an evil in our country on Christians and Christian "hate."

Mr. Ashby completely overlooks that it was not "Christian hate" that crashed two planes into the World Trade Center. It was not "Christian hate" that video taped the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl. Nor was it "Christian Hate" that teaches Palestinian children that suicide bombing is a wonderful or glorious thing.

Mr. Ashby ignores the fact that Christians donate millions of dollars every year and some risk their very lives to serve as missionaries, forfeiting vacation time that could be spent here in the USA and instead risk their very lives to help build infrastructure, provide food & medicine to underprivileged people around the world. Members of my own church have risked their lives to help minister to the needs of people in Africa where Muslim warlords kill people who do not accept their faith of Islam (especially Christians).

Interestingly enough Mr Ashby quotes Eleanor Roosevelt: "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." However, instead of discussing "ideas" or "events." Mr. Ashby spends the bulk of his article denigrating "people."

By way of example:
-Christians are haters and responsible for the emergence of a new evil in America.
-Dick Army and Rush Limbaugh are greedy.
-Bloggers are fat people in bathrobes living in basements.
-Web sites like the Huffington Post or Drudgereport are not legitimate because they don't spend $3 million a year establishing bureaus in war zones.
-Fox News viewers are ignorant.

At no point does Mr. Ashby ever take on any of the arguments he opposes based upon their "ideas" or the substance thereof. Instead he insults the people who proctor or support the ideas he opposes.

Maybe Mrs Roosevelt was on to something when she said "Small minds discuss people."

When you can't win the argument on merits, play the race card!

Carter: Racism plays major role in opposition to Obama - CNN.com

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First California Congresswoman Diane Watson makes the accusation in a fund raising event that any white people that oppose Barack Obama's socialist agenda are simply against him because he's black.

Last week New York Times left wing columnist Maureen Dowd claimed that it was racism that compelled Congressman Joe Wilson to call President Obama a liar. Never mind that Congressman Wilson was party to several amendments killed by Democrats to the health care bills that would have mandated enforcement of ensuring illegal aliens were excluded from coverage. Imagine his frustration when President Obama stood before both

And now we have former President Jimmy Carter making a similar argument that people simply oppose Barack Obama because of his skin color.

First and foremost any Democrat or liberal that starts throwing around the race card in the health care debate, the massive expansion of government debate or the government take over of private company debates are relying on nothing more than their lack of intellectual capacity to argue these issues on the merits alone.

I personally find it offensive and racist in their own rights. However, I will note that as the playing of the race card becomes more prevalent, the more I am convinced that Conservatives (not Republicans) are winning the war of ideas with the American public.

However, allow me to apply the same logic used by Congresswoman Diane Watson, Columnist Maureen Dowd and former President Jimmy Carter. Their argument is racism is the only reason people are rejecting President Obama's socialist agenda.

By their own logic they too are admitting they are racists themselves, when they oppose prominent African American's who espouse capitalistic free market political values and philosophies. To name a few of these individuals:

Micheal Steele Chairman of the Republican National Committe.
Ward Connerly, political activist in support of campaigns against racial preferences.
JC Watts, former Congressman from Oklahoma and author of "What Color is a Conservative"
Thomas Sowell, columnist and author of numerous economic and political books such as "Black Rednecks, White Liberals","Economic Facts and Fallacies","The Vision of the Anointed","Basic Economics" and much much more.

Maureen Dowd, Jimmy Carter and Dianne Watson I guess by using your own logic you are racist but then again, I'm not a big fan of your logic.

A Note To President Obama Regarding is "Tax Crackdown".

Dear President Obama,

Who in the hell do you think you are to look down your arrogant nose at the American private sector and tell them you are going to “crack down” and make us pay our fair share of taxes?
Sir you neglect the simple matter of fact that the private sector is the entity that creates jobs, wealth and prosperity in addition to employing people not only here in America, but yes also abroad.

You decline to acknowledge that the US Corporate Tax Rate is already the 2nd highest of all western industrialized nations which is one of the primary reasons companies go offshore. It is your government that is pushing these companies offshore.

Before you start targeting people & business entities in the private sector, I would ask that you demonstrate some “change we can believe in” and address the rank hypocrisy within your own house. In case you are oblivious or unaware of this hypocrisy let me remind you:

House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangle—currently under investigation for tax evasion.
HHS Secretary--Kathleen Sebelius 7k owed in taxes prior to Senate confirmation.
HHS Secretary Nominee—Tom Daschell 140k owed in taxes, forced to withdraw his nomination.
Secretary of Commerce Nominee—Bill Richardson abandoned his nomination because of tax problems in addition to an ongoing criminal investigation.
Hilda Solis—Labor Secretary confirmed after agreeing to pay 6,400 in unpaid taxes.
Treasury Secretary—Tim “Turbo Tax” Geithner failed to pay FICA taxes for several years and had to repay his taxes prior to Senate confirmation.
Office of Management & Budget nominee---Nancy Killefer withdrew her nomination due to back taxes and a $900 dollar lien on her home for failing to pay unemployment compensation for household help.

Let us also not forget all of the Fraud, Waste and Abuse that occurs within the Federal Bureaucracy, you can clean that up to while you are at it. This is the audacity of hypocrisy, and it stinks!

The Botchmen

Hysterical... couldn't avoid posting this!

Disdain for The Declaration of Independence

"We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms," Obama said to loud applause. "But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations."-- President Barak Obama in his speech to the 34 nation summit of the Americas this weekend.

Collectively President Obama’s actions and statements in his European, Asian and now Mexico and South America have become the figurative equivalent of giving the Declaration of Independence the middle finger.

The man Barak Obama is one of two things in his political ideology. He either an ignorant ideologue that has no understanding of our founding documents or he flat out rejects our founding principles in favor of the collectivist teachings of Marx, Engels and other like minded Socialists. I am firmly inclined to believe the latter especially given the President once taught Constitutional Law.

In recent weeks President Obama has declared our nation’s past actions as “derisive” and “arrogant” in dealing with other nations. He flat out stated that most of President Bush’s foreign policy initiatives were mistakes. In every country he has visited from Europe to Turkey and now Mexico he has accepted blame on behalf of America for problems that currently plague these nations.

Transcending his words, President Obama’s actions speak just as loudly. Behavior such as refusing the French President’s invitation to visit one of the most hallowed cemeteries in history near Normandy last month demonstrates his lack of respect for fallen Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting one of the greatest evils the world has ever seen. Moreover his excuse of not wanting to offend the Germans was abhorrent. By God Mr. President, are you such a coward that you do not wish to offend anyone sympathetic to the evil deeds of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party?!

Amazingly President Obama does not want to offend Nazi sympathizers but embraces the likes of Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro.

Trampling the principles of democracy and liberty he tells some of our European partners that the liberation of Iraq was nothing more than an “unnecessary distraction”. In doing so he not only agrees with our enemies and countries that financially supported Saddam’s tyranny (France) but also shuns our closest allies (Great Britain & Australia) who sacrificed their blood and treasure.

President Obama overlooks the simple fact that the United States of America is the greatest nation to ever exist in the history of mankind. We have achieved unparalleled wealth, prosperity, productivity and a standard of living that exceeds anything that has ever been seen in recorded history. Our ability to innovate and mass produce technology has not only benefited the people of our nation but the entire world as well.

Our great country generously provides foods, medicine, housing and health care for our less fortunate citizens and even those who are in our country illegally. We often turn a blind eye to those who take advantage of our generosity in spite of their ability to take care of themselves. We not only take care of our own, we invest more money than any other nation in providing aid and assistance to those outside of our borders. Often even with those who wish us harm. We do this because we are a compassionate and caring people.

We do this because beyond our nation’s contribution of great wealth and prosperity our nation has done something for the world that no other nation ever has. We as Americans share a unique ideal. It was a notion that germinated with the Magna Carta and evolved into the very unique American ideal held true in our Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”

These are some of the most brilliant words ever put to paper. They not only declare our fundamental rights as humankind, but also simply state that the means of securing these rights Governments instituted among men must derive their powers from the consent of the very people they govern.

We as a nation are not perfect; we never have been, not in our inception and not even now. However, throughout our history we have held dear these ideals and values. The have been the cornerstone of American thought that led to so many great and historical events such as the abolition of slavery, the liberation of Europe (twice), the right of suffrage for women, the Civil Rights act and yes, the liberation of the people’s of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Throughout our history our nation has taken a stand for these beliefs especially when our nation’s interest is at stake. While we have not been perfect and have made our share of mistakes in addition to having relationships with other governments that do not share the same ideals as a general principle we as Americans have held to the belief that all humankind shares in these “unalienable Rights”.

President Obama’s apologies for “Americanism” coupled with his policy initiatives and actions are departure from our most sacred ideals.

We are not arrogant or derisive when we tell the Europeans that we do not approve of their actions in financially and politically supporting regimes like Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. These regimes were and are horrible governments that do not believe in the self-evident rights of man. They have trampled on the rights of man in some of the most horrible ways.

We as a nation are not to blame for the horrors of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, nor are we to blame for the corrupt government in Mexico that does nothing to help it’s poor. Perhaps our greatest fault in dealing with Mexico has been our compassion and generosity, in our willingness to look the other way as millions of Mexico’s abused people risk their lives to live in our country. It is this fault of ours that has only served to prolong the corrupt Mexican government.

We as a nation are often put in the position of dealing with states that are “destructive” and suppress the rights of their people to alter or abolish their destructive governments. Within these nations voices of dissent in are quashed by the tyranny of imprisonment, torture and even worse death.

The President is not an ignorant man, but he is wrong to hold the view that our nation has been arrogant, and derisive when dealing with other nation states that do not hold to the ideals of our self evident unalienable Rights. To say that these nations morally are on the same playing field or in President Obama’s words “equal partners” is wrong.

The President should be told that our self-evident ideals involving the notion that all men are created equal are not arrogant or derisive. They are morally just and right. We as a nation should demand the President stop with this kind of language and behavior. While as an individual Mr. Obama may not hold to these ideals; he is our elected President and represents us as a nation and the ideals that our nation has held dear for more than two hundred years.

We should demand President Obama stop using the office of the Presidency to shoot the finger at Thomas Jefferson, our founding fathers and the Declaration of Independence.

Fawning for Communism The Democrats Wonderful Adventure to Cuba

"This is the dawning of a new day," Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., declared. "Fifty years of foolishness is over. It's time for the children to sit in the corner and the adults to take over."

These are the words Democrat House Representative Bobby Rush chose for the media while visiting the Castro brothers in Cuba. In short he is telling the world that Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush were "children" in their foreign policy with Cuba.

Cuba is a hell hole created by the Castro brothers so repressive that its people are willing to risk drowning, being eaten by sharks and dying under a baking sun while swept out to sea as they attempt to reach the safe harbor of our shores.

So Mr. Rush, if the policies of the past fifty years are so childlike and you prefer the warm embrace of a Communist Dictator, what else do you support?

-Killing off our auto industry completely so we can all be like the Cubans and drive cars made in the 50's?
-Imprisoning, torturing and killing individuals who do not agree with you politically?
-Eliminating our democratic process of electing public officials?

But what do I know? My view was aligned with the "children" of the past 50 years.