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October 30, 2009
Hearing Ronald Reagan's speeches again it's hard to believe
what is now facing us from Washington. Are
Americans really where the mainstream media hopes we are?
October 11, 2009
Gold is at an all time high and going higher but Obama is urging us to sell something far more precious at a rock bottom price.
October 8, 2009
Should
I stay or should I go? Race, religion or national
origin don't matter, it's what you believe.
September 12, 2009
Statist solutions to healthcare abound
on both sides of the aisle these days. We all know about
ObamaCare so the Republican Leadership Council, formerly
known as It's
My Party Too has an ObamaLite
plan on the table. As usual the moderate Republican
group sails in the same direction, just at fewer knots.
How
about a few ideas that don't deliver your doctor's
proctoscope into government hands. The last thing you
want to hear from Nancy Pelosi should be "Bottoms Up"!
September 9, 2009
Foolish
trades. The Cyclops, a giant with a single
eye in the center of his forehead, is one of the fascinating
characters in Greek mythology. One story has it that when
he originally had two eyes he met a blind witch who could
see the future. The witch talked him into a trade in which
he would give her one of his eyes so that she would no
longer be blind and in exchange she would share her ability
to see the future with the Cyclops. But the witch cheated
the Cyclops, giving him only the ability to see the time
and place of his own death.
Stories with a lesson about foolish trades have been
around for thousands of years. Judging by the trade Obama
is offering us today, cheap affordable healthcare in exchange
for our freedoms, as a species we haven't learned much
in those thousands of years.
Here
is hoping all our Republican representatives stand
firm against his government takeover of healthcare.
July 13, 2009
Two thoughts on the health
care crisis
July 10, 2009
National Review Online provides a 5-part
video series on the recession, who caused it, what's being
done about it and how that compares with what happened
in the 1930's. Spend half an hour getting a real education
from Dr. Thomas Sowell, you'll be glad you did. Then write
your congressman and your senator.
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5
July 9, 2009
Arizona Secretary of State, Ken Bennett
describes the annual budget of the State of Arizona in
an excellent video produced by his office. The blocks
are full and half sized tissue boxes, the full ones each
symbolizing about one billion dollars, the half-sized
boxes each representing about five hundred million dollars.
(500 million is half a billion in case you're a recent
graduate.)
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The three stacks on the left account for tax dollars from
all sources that go to education. They add up to 16 billion
dollars. All the rest add up to 16.5 billion dollars.
You can click the picture to get a larger image if you
want to see the categories. The point is, nearly half
of all your state tax dollars get spent on education.
The total State budget is roughly 32.5 billion dollars.
That's how much they would spend if they had it. The recession
has caused collections to fall about 4 billion short.
That's about 12.3 percent if they could cut everything
equally across the board.
The current recession has provided many of us with a
significant decline in our net worth. Your house is probably
down between 20 to 50 percent. Your 401-K is probably
down 20 to 40 percent even after the recent March run
up in the stock market. You may be one of those lucky
ones who are still working but maybe you just took a 10
percent cut in pay, that is if you were lucky. Or maybe
you're out of a job entirely.
The point is, the education folks don't want to feel
your pain. They don't want to feel any pain at all. In
fact, they want you to feel their pain along with your
own. "There'll be Hell to pay if you cut a penny
from education." So that means cut the other half
of government 25 percent or raise taxes on the rest of
us.
You'll be hearing a lot from the Education lobby in the
coming months about why you should vote to make yourself
pay more taxes "for the children". Just ask
them to answer you this: "If you can always find
ways to spend more money, why can't you step back and
see if you can't find a few ways, to spend less money,
and do it responsibly, for a little while.
Yes, we know it's not really that simple. But it could
be a lot simpler than it is if your Arizona educators
would get in the boat and pull with the rest of us.
Meanwhile, click here
and see what New York City is getting for all the billions
they spend on education.
July 7, 2009
Will the last Republican "gentleman"
to take off the white gloves just shut up and lie down.
It's too late, you're already dead.
...stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely
a political party... David Kahane of National Review
Online tells it like it is in I
Still Hate You, Sarah Palin.
July 6, 2009
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Had it up to here with those Eastern
Intellectual Elites? They should have a degree for what
they do, like PHD only maybe it should
be EBACS (Educated Beyond All Common
Sense). It's time we got back to work here, annoying
those so-called Liberals who seem to be doing their
best to undermine the principles and the freedoms restored
to the human race by those giants who founded our great
country.
So, this site is back. Its continuing mission; to disseminate
information useful to Conservatives interested and active
in taking back their country. Some of the information
pertinent to the ongoing functions of District 11 formerly
kept on this site will be removed, some of it to be
taken up by the new official LD-11 site when it comes
on line. Other features will be maintained and some
will be added as time and imagination permit.
July 6, 2009
You know that what's happening in DC
at a frenetic pace will destroy your wealth, deny your
freedom, kill your spirit and limit the aspirations of
your future generations, yet you can't believe it's really
happening. That's what they're counting on. They want
to get it done before you wake up. They want to do things
that will be difficult or impossible to undo when you
do wake up as they know you will, eventually.
The last time we went this crazy we got the Great Society.
It will take generations to undo the damage perpetrated
by Lyndon Johnson but at least the work was begun by
Ronald Reagan. Now he's gone and they're at it again,
"progressing" toward the socialist utopia
that the Russians suffered under 75 years of totalitarian
government.
You want to speak up but what they're doing is so
far off the map you can't think of the words. Fortunately
there are some who see what's happening and can write
about it from a perspective of history and experience.
There is a lot of good writing out there and we'll be
linking to it. Right now, you could do a lot worse than
peruse the writings of Thomas Sowell. You won't find
anyone more grounded in common sense, more literate
or erudite in economics and history. The truly marvelous
thing about him is that he explains this stuff so anyone
can understand it.
So start here with his June 23 essay; Republicans
in the Wilderness and then go back to his
page on TownHall.com and enjoy at least one essay
a day until you've covered them all. Do that and before
long you'll know more truth about history, economics,
politics and common sense than 99 percent of the "intelligentsia"
that populate the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
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