Social Security: National Ponzi Scheme
"In 1940, there were 42 workers per retiree, in 1950 there were 16, today there are three and in 20 or 30 years there will be two or fewer workers per retiree."
Monday, February 02, 2009
Man beaten with beer mug during fight at Pittsfield Township bar
Man beaten with beer mug during fight at Pittsfield Township bar, police say
"witnesses told police that the 21-year-old Ann Arbor man struck the victim in the head repeatedly with a glass beer mug"
Isn't it time we started considering the licensing of beer mugs?
People don't mug people with mugs if Dixie Cups are at hand..
Mugs force drunks to mug people.
Seriously, if it saves just one beer drinker's life....
"witnesses told police that the 21-year-old Ann Arbor man struck the victim in the head repeatedly with a glass beer mug"
Isn't it time we started considering the licensing of beer mugs?
People don't mug people with mugs if Dixie Cups are at hand..
Mugs force drunks to mug people.
Seriously, if it saves just one beer drinker's life....
CARPE DIEM: With All Due Respect Mr. President......
CARPE DIEM: With All Due Respect Mr. President......:
"'There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.'
~PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, JANUARY 9 , 2009
With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.
There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.
Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance.
More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
More government spending did not solve Japan’s “lost decade” in the 1990s.
As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today.
To improve the economy, policymakers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production.
Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth."
"'There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.'
~PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, JANUARY 9 , 2009
With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.
There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.
Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance.
More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
More government spending did not solve Japan’s “lost decade” in the 1990s.
As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today.
To improve the economy, policymakers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production.
Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth."
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Call for obese children to be taken into care
Call for obese children to be taken into care
"SEVERELY obese children should be notified to child protection authorities, and even taken into care, if their parents are unwilling or unable to help them lose weight, experts have argued."
Yikes!
If our country did this in Muskegon, half the kids would be in "fat camp"!
Ain't liberalism great?
"SEVERELY obese children should be notified to child protection authorities, and even taken into care, if their parents are unwilling or unable to help them lose weight, experts have argued."
Yikes!
If our country did this in Muskegon, half the kids would be in "fat camp"!
Ain't liberalism great?
CARPE DIEM: Your Tax Dollars At Work, Saving Jobs in Brazil: GM to Invest $1 Billion of Bailout Money in Brazil
CARPE DIEM: Your Tax Dollars At Work, Saving Jobs in Brazil: GM to Invest $1 Billion of Bailout Money in Brazil
Your TV and local news told you about this.....right?
When are you gonna wonder why you don't know these FACTS in advance of giant money grab from YOUR pocket?
Your TV and local news told you about this.....right?
When are you gonna wonder why you don't know these FACTS in advance of giant money grab from YOUR pocket?
THE RUSH LIMBAUGH REVIVAL
THE RUSH LIMBAUGH REVIVAL
"In a repeat of anti-Rush history (see 'vast right wing conspiracy,' et al), the White House broadside backfired ....... Rather than dividing the GOP, it united them.
Not a single Republican voted for the Obama plan after unprecedented wooing, courting, and cajoling.
The Rush Effect is incontestable.
Which begs the question: Why did Obama - who told House GOP leaders 'you can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done' - even bring him up?"
Could it be that "Barry and the libs" just don't get it?
"In a repeat of anti-Rush history (see 'vast right wing conspiracy,' et al), the White House broadside backfired ....... Rather than dividing the GOP, it united them.
Not a single Republican voted for the Obama plan after unprecedented wooing, courting, and cajoling.
The Rush Effect is incontestable.
Which begs the question: Why did Obama - who told House GOP leaders 'you can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done' - even bring him up?"
Could it be that "Barry and the libs" just don't get it?
Financial trouble puts quick end to farm making high-end cheese from water buffalos
Financial trouble puts quick end to farm making high-end cheese from water buffalos
"'They had a whole business plan and (Cummings) had a good system set up,' said Mike DiBernardo, an economic development specialist with the state Department of Agriculture. 'They were ramping up, working on getting that volume up, and it all comes to a screeching halt.'
The agriculture department funded a $50,000 marketing study for di Bufala in 2006 that showed a 'very lucrative and strong market' for mozzarella and yogurt made from water buffalo milk."
Ummm.... our state, Jenny-and-the-dems, gave this 12th generation inbred $50,000 to tell him it was a GREAT idea and he bellies up in a few months!!!!!!!
Folks, when are we gonna get a hint that these "free money" scum from our state government don't need any more of our money?
"'They had a whole business plan and (Cummings) had a good system set up,' said Mike DiBernardo, an economic development specialist with the state Department of Agriculture. 'They were ramping up, working on getting that volume up, and it all comes to a screeching halt.'
The agriculture department funded a $50,000 marketing study for di Bufala in 2006 that showed a 'very lucrative and strong market' for mozzarella and yogurt made from water buffalo milk."
Ummm.... our state, Jenny-and-the-dems, gave this 12th generation inbred $50,000 to tell him it was a GREAT idea and he bellies up in a few months!!!!!!!
Folks, when are we gonna get a hint that these "free money" scum from our state government don't need any more of our money?
Blue Cross requests rate increases in Michigan
Blue Cross requests rate increases in Michigan
"The requested average rate increases are 56 percent for individual plans,"
Holy shittake!
"The requested average rate increases are 56 percent for individual plans,"
Holy shittake!
"Let them eat cake"
Muskegon County prepares for 150th birthday
"The county wants to throw itself a birthday party.
July 18 will mark Muskegon County's 150th anniversary as a governmental unit, and thanks to $10,000 from the county's board of commissioners, a celebration is in the works......
And two massive cakes, one of which is expected to be large enough to feed 5,000 people, will take center stage at Taste of Muskegon, a culinary festival that has drawn thousands of food lovers downtown."
Interesting that the county's board of commissioners would be kind enough to pony up $10,000 from their own pockets for us cake eaters!
Oh..... it isn't the commissioners who are paying?
It's US PEOPLE???
Our broke county has EXTRA tax moolah for cake?
This ain't right.
Folks, remember how the "Let them eat cake" deal worked out for Marie Antoinette.
"The county wants to throw itself a birthday party.
July 18 will mark Muskegon County's 150th anniversary as a governmental unit, and thanks to $10,000 from the county's board of commissioners, a celebration is in the works......
And two massive cakes, one of which is expected to be large enough to feed 5,000 people, will take center stage at Taste of Muskegon, a culinary festival that has drawn thousands of food lovers downtown."
Interesting that the county's board of commissioners would be kind enough to pony up $10,000 from their own pockets for us cake eaters!
Oh..... it isn't the commissioners who are paying?
It's US PEOPLE???
Our broke county has EXTRA tax moolah for cake?
This ain't right.
Folks, remember how the "Let them eat cake" deal worked out for Marie Antoinette.
We show tolerance to 'gays' and get tyranny in return
PETER HITCHENS
We show tolerance to 'gays' and get tyranny in return:
"We are forced to say that we think homosexuality is a good thing, that homosexual couples are equal in all ways to heterosexual married couples.
Most emphatically, we are compelled to agree that homosexual couples are just as good at bringing up children as the children's own grandparents.
Better, in fact.
Many people who believe nothing of the kind now know that their careers in politics, the media, the Armed Services, the police or schools will be ruined if they ever let their true opinions show.
I am sure that many of them regularly lie about their views, to avoid such trouble."
The "free speech" American media would love to have England's intolerance right here in the good old USA!
We show tolerance to 'gays' and get tyranny in return:
"We are forced to say that we think homosexuality is a good thing, that homosexual couples are equal in all ways to heterosexual married couples.
Most emphatically, we are compelled to agree that homosexual couples are just as good at bringing up children as the children's own grandparents.
Better, in fact.
Many people who believe nothing of the kind now know that their careers in politics, the media, the Armed Services, the police or schools will be ruined if they ever let their true opinions show.
I am sure that many of them regularly lie about their views, to avoid such trouble."
The "free speech" American media would love to have England's intolerance right here in the good old USA!
Details of medical marijuana law still hazy as April implementation approaches
Details of medical marijuana law still hazy as April implementation approaches
"Come April 4, Michigan residents suffering from certain illnesses will be allowed to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, but one big, lingering question remains: How do they get the drug without breaking state and federal criminal laws?
The answer appears to be as hazy as Cheech and Chong's van"
Why are we ALWAYS voting on initiatives that are so poorly written?
"Come April 4, Michigan residents suffering from certain illnesses will be allowed to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, but one big, lingering question remains: How do they get the drug without breaking state and federal criminal laws?
The answer appears to be as hazy as Cheech and Chong's van"
Why are we ALWAYS voting on initiatives that are so poorly written?
Michigan school officials call MEA early retirement idea 'a bad proposal'
Michigan school officials call MEA early retirement idea 'a bad proposal'
"the plan would boost pension benefits by about a third to encourage school employees to retire this year. A teacher with 30 years of service who earns $70,000 would see his or her pension set at $42,000 a year under the plan, compared to $31,500 under the normal formula. An estimated 90,000 school employees would qualify for the plan."
This is an enormous rip off of the taxpayer's money.
Remember the AVERAGE FAMILY income in Muskegon county is about $38,000.
We work hard for our families and the teacher union thugs work hard to take more and more of our money.
"the plan would boost pension benefits by about a third to encourage school employees to retire this year. A teacher with 30 years of service who earns $70,000 would see his or her pension set at $42,000 a year under the plan, compared to $31,500 under the normal formula. An estimated 90,000 school employees would qualify for the plan."
This is an enormous rip off of the taxpayer's money.
Remember the AVERAGE FAMILY income in Muskegon county is about $38,000.
We work hard for our families and the teacher union thugs work hard to take more and more of our money.
Flushing more of OUR hard earned money down the UNION THUG's drain.
Muskegon school board member Charles Nash resists efforts to get him to resign
Muskegon school board member Charles Nash resists efforts to get him to resign
"School officials fear the efforts to remove Nash could create divisions on the board, especially since he has raised the issue of racism during efforts to get him off the school board.......
During a special school board meeting last week to discuss the issue, school board attorney Gary Britton said it was his opinion that Nash was in conflict by serving on both boards and that he should resign. Britton also advised the board it could seek an opinion from the state's attorney general. A state legislator also could request such an opinion, a county elections officials has said."
Hold on!
I thought Prez Barry's coronation was supposed to end this auto-defence!
I guess not.
It's just too good to stop using.....kids learn the same thing.... but a little different.....
"School officials fear the efforts to remove Nash could create divisions on the board, especially since he has raised the issue of racism during efforts to get him off the school board.......
During a special school board meeting last week to discuss the issue, school board attorney Gary Britton said it was his opinion that Nash was in conflict by serving on both boards and that he should resign. Britton also advised the board it could seek an opinion from the state's attorney general. A state legislator also could request such an opinion, a county elections officials has said."
Hold on!
I thought Prez Barry's coronation was supposed to end this auto-defence!
I guess not.
It's just too good to stop using.....kids learn the same thing.... but a little different.....
Obama hates white people and wants them to die
"With nearly 1.5 million people in the mid-west without power during a cold snap, what other possible reason is there that this new 'competent' administration and FEMA would be failing so spectacularly in helping in this natural disaster?
It's got to be that Obama hates white people and wants them to die!"
What's good for the media goose is good for the media gander?
Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
"I've always gotten pleasure cheating on my income tax, but the creme de la creme is cheating via electronic filing."
Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
"This is the second Cabinet nominee of President Obama's to face questions of tax malfeasance. Geithner paid more than $34,000 in taxes during his vetting process for income earned at the International Monetary Fund. Earlier, Commerce secretary nominee Bill Richardson withdrew his name from consideration after reports of a federal investigation involving whether his office engaged in 'pay to play,'"
Wow, this is BIG!
3 crooks in 10 days!
A new record for appointing crooks?
I'm sure we'll see the the unbiased media screaming "culture of corruption".... right?
"This is the second Cabinet nominee of President Obama's to face questions of tax malfeasance. Geithner paid more than $34,000 in taxes during his vetting process for income earned at the International Monetary Fund. Earlier, Commerce secretary nominee Bill Richardson withdrew his name from consideration after reports of a federal investigation involving whether his office engaged in 'pay to play,'"
Wow, this is BIG!
3 crooks in 10 days!
A new record for appointing crooks?
I'm sure we'll see the the unbiased media screaming "culture of corruption".... right?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
OUTRAGE: Obama and FEMA leave Americans to die in Kentucky. Media firestorm in . . . well, never….
OUTRAGE: Obama and FEMA leave Americans to die in Kentucky. Media firestorm in . . . well, never….
"January 31, 2009
OUTRAGE: Obama and FEMA leave Americans to die in Kentucky. Media firestorm in . . . well, never.
Plus, “Obama dozed, people froze.”
And Juliette Ochieng emails: “President Obama doesn’t care about white people…and neither do the MSM.”
Well, that wouldn’t fit the narrative.
"January 31, 2009
OUTRAGE: Obama and FEMA leave Americans to die in Kentucky. Media firestorm in . . . well, never.
Plus, “Obama dozed, people froze.”
And Juliette Ochieng emails: “President Obama doesn’t care about white people…and neither do the MSM.”
Well, that wouldn’t fit the narrative.
The Myth of the ‘Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor’
The Myth of the ‘Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor’:
"It gets repeated so frequently and so persistently that many assume it must be true: the rich are getting richer and the poor have been left behind in ever-larger numbers, especially during the eeeeeevil Bush administration.
Baloney."
"It gets repeated so frequently and so persistently that many assume it must be true: the rich are getting richer and the poor have been left behind in ever-larger numbers, especially during the eeeeeevil Bush administration.
Baloney."
CARPE DIEM: Superbowl Tickets $1000 Less Than Last Year
Superbowl Tickets $1000 Less Than Last Year
"That means on the low end you're finding tickets going for about $1,400 and they're going to be coming down even farther as the weekend goes on,' said Pate."
Wow!
"That means on the low end you're finding tickets going for about $1,400 and they're going to be coming down even farther as the weekend goes on,' said Pate."
Wow!
Things must be REALLY bad if the cheap seats are only $1,400.
...what do the hotdogs cost.....
....is this still Bush's fault or Engler's..... cause of the Lions mess?....
Liberal media dumber than 128 year old woman!
Uzbekistan Claims World's Oldest Woman
"Uzbekistan officials say they have found the world's oldest woman and, if her age proves to be accurate, she would be the oldest documented person to have ever lived, according to the BBC News.
Tuti Yusupova's birth certificate says she was born in 1880, officials told the BBC.
Wow!
This is big! (I wonder what type of yogurt she eats)
Uzbekistan records are known to be the most accurate of any birth records in the liberal media world!
Nice to see the tradition of "fact" checking continues!
"Uzbekistan officials say they have found the world's oldest woman and, if her age proves to be accurate, she would be the oldest documented person to have ever lived, according to the BBC News.
Tuti Yusupova's birth certificate says she was born in 1880, officials told the BBC.
Wow!
This is big! (I wonder what type of yogurt she eats)
Uzbekistan records are known to be the most accurate of any birth records in the liberal media world!
Nice to see the tradition of "fact" checking continues!
global economic traffic jam has Muskegon backed up
Economist George Erickcek says global economic traffic jam has Muskegon backed up
'We find that the best and the brightest are going to Chicago and other areas,' Erickcek told the chamber breakfast crowd. 'It's a challenge we have to work on in Muskegon County.'"
But let's not address the ever increasing taxes, never accountable schools, crime rate, ornery city/county government services and the Frauenthalians who waste precious tax dollars on personal projects.
No. Let's not do that.
Don't want to offend anyone.... ya know.....
'We find that the best and the brightest are going to Chicago and other areas,' Erickcek told the chamber breakfast crowd. 'It's a challenge we have to work on in Muskegon County.'"
But let's not address the ever increasing taxes, never accountable schools, crime rate, ornery city/county government services and the Frauenthalians who waste precious tax dollars on personal projects.
No. Let's not do that.
Don't want to offend anyone.... ya know.....
Cause and Effect - Part 1
Cause and Effect - Part 1:
"We can learn from them. ..Or can we?
Consider the basic and fundamental reason for the current financial (housing based) crisis. It started many years ago with one of the most incompetent presidents this country has ever seen. See if you can guess from the following multiple choice:
A. Jimmy Carter
B. Jimmy Carter
C. Jimmy Carter
D. All of the above.
I believe the answer is somewhere along the lines of 1977: Jimmy Carter rams the Community Reinvestment Act through Congress.
Note that it has since been reinforced by Democrat (Clinton) and Only slightly rebuffed by a distracted Republican Bush white house, however note that even Bush’s administration Mankiw warned of trouble:
“2001: Bush administration warns of impending doom. In Bush’s first year in office, the White House’s chief economist, N. Gregory Mankiw, warned Fannie and Freddie’s loans to unqualified borrowers and other complications at the two institutions were creating a huge risk for the entire financial system.
Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) denounced Mankiw, accusing him of having no “concern about housing.” ”"
"We can learn from them. ..Or can we?
Consider the basic and fundamental reason for the current financial (housing based) crisis. It started many years ago with one of the most incompetent presidents this country has ever seen. See if you can guess from the following multiple choice:
A. Jimmy Carter
B. Jimmy Carter
C. Jimmy Carter
D. All of the above.
I believe the answer is somewhere along the lines of 1977: Jimmy Carter rams the Community Reinvestment Act through Congress.
Note that it has since been reinforced by Democrat (Clinton) and Only slightly rebuffed by a distracted Republican Bush white house, however note that even Bush’s administration Mankiw warned of trouble:
“2001: Bush administration warns of impending doom. In Bush’s first year in office, the White House’s chief economist, N. Gregory Mankiw, warned Fannie and Freddie’s loans to unqualified borrowers and other complications at the two institutions were creating a huge risk for the entire financial system.
Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) denounced Mankiw, accusing him of having no “concern about housing.” ”"
OBAMA’S PLAN HAS ALREADY BOOSTED TAX COLLECTIONS!
OBAMA’S PLAN HAS ALREADY BOOSTED TAX COLLECTIONS!
In office less than two weeks, President Barack Obama has already increased tax receipts at the U.S. Treasury with an innovative plan to get tax-dodgers to pay up, in full, immediately.
“The president’s plan is simple but ingenious,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, “He targets wealthy individuals who filed inaccurate tax forms, cheating the government out of tens of thousands of dollars. Then he just nominates them for cabinet positions. They suddenly see the error of their ways, and they cut checks for the full amount owed, plus interest.”"
Wow!
This man, Obama, is deep!
In office less than two weeks, President Barack Obama has already increased tax receipts at the U.S. Treasury with an innovative plan to get tax-dodgers to pay up, in full, immediately.
“The president’s plan is simple but ingenious,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, “He targets wealthy individuals who filed inaccurate tax forms, cheating the government out of tens of thousands of dollars. Then he just nominates them for cabinet positions. They suddenly see the error of their ways, and they cut checks for the full amount owed, plus interest.”"
Wow!
This man, Obama, is deep!
Our health system basically "broke"
Our health system basically "broke"
"THE full extent of the disease plaguing the NSW health system can be revealed, with an analysis showing every one of the state's 220 public hospitals is either battling to pay bills, struggling to attract staff or short of beds."
This is the SAME system that demo-crook leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed want to force on our seniors!
And have the kids pay for!
"THE full extent of the disease plaguing the NSW health system can be revealed, with an analysis showing every one of the state's 220 public hospitals is either battling to pay bills, struggling to attract staff or short of beds."
This is the SAME system that demo-crook leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed want to force on our seniors!
And have the kids pay for!
Obama's Animal Farm Cabinet
Obama pushes economic plan
"Obama was facing a new political distraction -- the disclosure that Tom Daschle, picked to spearhead U.S. health care reform, failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes.
It was the latest glitch in Obama's effort to complete his cabinet and focus on his administration's top priorities. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's nomination was held up earlier by criticism over late payment of $34,000 in taxes."
"Obama was facing a new political distraction -- the disclosure that Tom Daschle, picked to spearhead U.S. health care reform, failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes.
It was the latest glitch in Obama's effort to complete his cabinet and focus on his administration's top priorities. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's nomination was held up earlier by criticism over late payment of $34,000 in taxes."
I guess Prez Barry is telling us that :
"All animals (democrats) are equal but some are more equal than others"
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