Back Talk

Berkeley is at it again

2011-01-18T23:50:22Z

Although it may be just one more instance of the Berkeley city council embarrassing itself and the sane, straight, and common sense gays in the community, it will be a wonderful breakthrough for the crowd that have made Berkeley infamous the world over. Notwithstanding the fact that the state and most California cities are bankrupt or near insolvency and the ongoing scandal is that a principle cause is the unconscionable overextension of benefits to public employees, Berkeley is planning to add one more benefit to city employees: they are going to pay pay for sex-change operations. In ding-dong Berkeley City Council language, is going to set aside funds for "city workers' gender-reassignment surgery," because the city's two health care providers, Kaiser and Health Net do not cover the procedure. The city of Berkeley has rung the silly bell many times in the past, one of the silliest when it declared itself a sanctuary city for illegal aliens.

Black is white, up is down

2010-12-23T23:14:43Z

Black is white, up is down. Barack Obama for two years has been calling the current tax rate schedules, which reflect the Bush tax cuts, inequitable, harmful to the economy and the cause of just about every problem in America. Now that he has given in and extending the current tax rates, he unashamedly stands before the American people, takes credit for extending the cuts, and says that a non-extension would harm the economy. Pure political hack that he is, he also concurrently played to his leftist base by saying he did not really approve of the extension and, therefore, it would apply for only two years. Question: if allowing taxes to increase now would harm the economy, will it not harm the economy in 2012?

The Liberal mindset

2010-12-09T21:35:25Z

How does one manage to at least understand the Liberal mind of so many of our legislators and the media? I repeatedly hear or read the comments of one of these elected geniuses or talking-head media shills that if we allow the "Bush tax cuts" to continue, it will increase the deficit (as if they have ever concerned themselves with the deficit.) How does it happen that if we make no changes in the tax code, neither a tax increase or decrease, merely leave the tax schedules untouched, it will increase the deficit? On the contrary, if we let the Bush schedules expire, we will all see a huge increase in taxes - the worst possible move during a recession. Tax cuts and capital gain tax cuts result in release of capital, therefore, product development and hiring. Tax increases do the opposite. Raising taxes on an already overtaxed public during a depression is lunacy on several counts.

Similar to the great depression

2010-11-16T01:08:34Z

Our country's most threatening problem is the sick economy, and the most worrisome factor is that our current regime has been systematically making it worse. In fact, the situation is ironically similar to the state of our economy during the great depression. Most of today's economists agree that the FDR regime made the depression worse with each tax, spend, and regulate move that they made, claiming it would fix the problem. The great depression lasted nine years because of this, ending only with the advent of the war. In his excellent book on history and economics, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote, "Obama did exactly the opposite of what should have been done. He surrounded himself with people who exacerbated the problem. You have a person who has cancer and instead of removing the cancer, you give him tranquilizers. When you give tranquilizers to a cancer patient, they feel better but the cancer gets worse."

Money well spent

2010-11-11T00:00:39Z

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $700,000 grant to create a computer model that measures the amount of greenhouse gases an organic dairy farm produces and because of all the dairy cows burping. Who says our Federal Government is not spending our tax money judiciously?

Shovel ready jobs?

2010-11-01T23:15:55Z

Remember all those "shovel-ready" jobs; President Forked-tongue said he would create with the stimulus bill. Now, he says there are really no, as in none, shovel ready jobs out there. He says this with such conviction that one is supposed to imagine he never said such a thing in the first place. In his defense, however, Los Angeles received $111 million in stimulus money and actually "saved" some jobs - a rather vague rationalization for spending that much gift money. They saved 55 jobs which works out to about $2 million per job. The regime spent $192 million on road signs that boast about some so-called construction delay prevention. Some pundit pointed out that "unemployment is a full three points higher during Obama's 'recovery' than it was during the Great Depression." The regime is spending 23 percent more than it did two years ago. The regime is not merely incompetent and dishonest - a condition we tend to expect from Democrat politicians. It is corrupt. Even the liberally slanted Washington Post wrote that Congress' emergency bailout to avoid "a teachers crisis" was a fraud to simply transfer billions to the teachers' unions in advance of the midterms.

Get real!

2010-10-14T01:24:31Z

A local newspaper published consecutive pieces on the economy that were generally well-meaning and thoughtful but required a little credibility cleanup. In particular, the comments about taxes. As with many economics-challenged editorial board journalism majors, the Board sees tax increases as the only way to cut the deficit. On the other hand, the board is savvy enough to recognize that increasing taxes is a poor option during a recession. Thus, the perceived dilemma. The Bush tax cuts were across the board in all tax brackets, and had a very salutary effect on the economy that lasted until Reid, Pelosi, and the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007. That is when the downhill slide began. The sunset provision was included as the only way to get Democrat concurrence. Nevertheless, it is now the tax law, and, if not renewed, will result in a large tax increase. The board defined a tax increase as a "saving" which begs the question, to whom, other than greedy congressmen for their favorite pork projects. And now, the dirty little secrets: Taxes retard economic growth. Taxing something, causes less of it - like capital formation, production, manufacturing, oil exploration and development. A tax increase never, ever created a job? Every tax cut, from Coolidge to Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush created more revenue, not less.

Dirty little secrets

2010-10-04T01:07:21Z

One of our local papers did consecutive pieces on the economy that were generally well-meaning and thoughtful but required a little credibility cleanup. In particular, the comments about taxes. As with many economics-challenged editorial board journalism majors, the Board sees tax increases as the only way to cut the deficit. On the other hand, the board is savvy enough to recognize that increasing taxes is a poor option during a recession. Thus, the perceived dilemma. The Bush tax cuts were across the board in all tax brackets, and had a very salutary effect on the economy that lasted until Reid, Pelosi, and the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007. That is when the downhill slide began. The sunset provision was included as the only way to get Democrat concurrence. Nevertheless, they are now the tax law, and, failing to renew them will result in a large tax increase. The board defined a tax increase as a "saving" which begs the question, to whom, other than greedy congressmen for their favorite pork projects. And now, the dirty little secrets: Taxes retard economic growth. Taxing something, causes less of it - like capital formation, production, manufacturing, oil exploration and development. When was the last time a tax increase created a job? Every tax cut, from Coolidge to Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush created more revenue, not less.

Pack of liars

2010-09-25T00:01:11Z

Lying in the face of evidence is a routine habit for the current regime. The President, his sycophants, with the help of the complicit media, keep repeating that they are not going to raise taxes, knowing that they are lying to the public, because, if they let the Bush tax cuts expire, they are in fact and in effect raising taxes for every person who pays taxes. They should also know that history informs us that raising taxes, particularly during a recession, will only decrease government revenue and further depress the economy. The liars never relent. They have been feeding us the lie for years that the only thing we need to stop the decline of our education system is to throw more and more money into the education budget. Education Secretary Arne Duncan claimed that school districts across the nation have been cutting their budgets seven years in a row. Another big whopper. They are not comparing current year spending to the previous year's spending. What they're doing is comparing the approved current year budget to the budget that they initially planned to put in place. Then, even if a district got more money than the previous year but less than it asked for, they call it a school budget cut.
Obama and Health and Human Services head, Kathleen Sebelius, repeatedly told us during Obama's election campaign that Obamacare, that they were forcing upon us against our wishes, would cut health costs all the way around, Sebelius now says she always claimed that health costs would rise - in the face of recorded proof to the contrary.

Throw the miscreants out

2010-09-16T19:10:04Z

What do the Islamic terrorists around the Middle East, Asia, and Africa - Mohamed Atta, bin Laden, al-Qaida, the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - have in common, with the Obama regime? They incorporate Stalinist tactics to accomplish their goals. They threaten, intimidate, demagogue and take away freedoms to break down the public will. No freedom is safe from Our Liberal regime's eradication. It has taken over our banks and car companies, forced a national health plan upon us and is gradually tearing down our free market economy. The majority of Americans are angry with the regime and with the biased media. Let us hope the November elections will turn the self-serving, greedy bureaucrats out on the street.

A sad situation

2010-09-13T00:52:58Z

In case there is still any doubt that the major network television organizations are any more than partisan political operatives, the Washington Examiner has issued the following results of a political analysis:
Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Obama and Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008. 1,160 employees gave the Democrats $1,020,816. By contrast, only 193 employees of these organizations contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees for a total of just $142,863. The Associated Press, which provides most of the news stories - not the editorials - that we get in our local papers is every bit as biased to the left. It is a sad situation for free speech in our country when our common news media is feeding us a steady diet of opinion-slanted news.

The face of failure

2010-09-09T18:30:17Z

Liberal Time magazine painfully writes about the 18 month reversal of Obama from the great savior of our country - the post-racial, non-partisan champion of the people - to just another self-serving Washington political hack. This is an amazing admission for the liberal magazine to make, but one that is inevitable in the face of such stark truth. While Obama the Great was campaigning for the Presidency, he repeatedly promised to cut the deficit in half, along with many other blatant lies. In only four months, he quadrupled the deficit and will have added more to our national debt than all of our former presidents combined. The Obama regime has virtually taken over the car industry, banking industry, and health care industry. We are well on our way to becoming a very large socialist, bankrupt, third-world country - a has-been failure with no standing in world.

That menacing Glenn Beck

2010-09-06T01:10:01Z

One must chuckle at the Post's Leftie No. 3 because of his article titled, "Beck's popularity is a concern." Beck has, in fact, become very popular so that much is true. He is popular and it is a concern to Liberals because his message is anathema to the Liberal's existence. He is crusading for smaller, non-meddling government, a free market, conventional family values, and low taxes. Beck is a Libertarian who also happens to be a Mormon with strong religious feelings. He scares the pants off the Lefties, who are often atheists and who, without a positive message of their own, resort to the demagoguery of class and ethnic warfare and accusations against Conservatives of racism, homophobia, sexism, and cold-heartedness for the less fortunate. What exactly is Leftie No. 3 concerned about? What does he think the menacing Beck is going to do? Perpetrate a Beck coup, take over the government, and require all Lefties to join the Mormon Church? Make them wear American flag pins in their lapels, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance?

Tiresomely predictable

2010-09-03T00:04:52Z

One of our newspaper's tiresomely predictable leftist writers did the predictable this week; he penned a hit piece in response to the huge turnout at the Glen Beck rally. It was not easy since it so popular and interesting in that even most of the liberal media reported that it was generally non-political. One writer noted, "One striking feature of Saturday's rally was how deeply religious and ecumenical it was." Nevertheless, Libertarian Beck is so threatening to the left, because he promotes smaller government, lower taxes, free trade, and freedom from bureaucrats that Liberals need to spring to the attack. Our Leftie titles his column, "Beck's popularity is a concern," His tortured analysis of Beck embodies the usual Liberal demagoguery: Scour the Internet for a few extremist writer quotes about Beck - protecting himself on the distinct possibility that quoted facts are actually lies. Then, our boy spews out the tried and true class hatred weapon by saying, "Beck is a millionaire, getting rich off foolish and gullible Americans who are scared their country is being taken over by commies or fascist or the Trilateral Commission or that scary Negro in the White House." This last statement betrays an underlying element of the liberal nature - they are elitists who believe they are smarter than the average bone-headed American citizen.

The big lie about the economy

2010-08-30T22:35:32Z

VP Joe Biden says the economy is swiftly recovering; everything is going to be just peachy. Mr. Credibility said further that we are re-building after the terrible mess that Bush and the Republicans left the Democrats. Some writer compared this obvious fabrication to the Monty Python episode where the pet store owner insisted the stone dead parrot was only resting. When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, unemployment was 4.5%, stock market was at 12000, and the deficit was 1.4% of GDP. Today unemployment is 9.5 and will likely climb higher, more than 18 percent of people who want full-time work can only find part-time jobs. Consumer confidence is destroyed, housing sales recently hit a 15-year low, and the stock market is off 11 percent since its April highs for the year. Runaway federal spending isn't likely to be brought under control as long as the major entitlements - Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - remain completely out of control. The number of entitlement beneficiaries is growing faster than the number of taxpayers, and entitlements account for more than half of federal spending.
When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 it was precisely the time that marks the beginning of the recession. The actual facts put the big lie to one of the many lies of the current Democrat regime.