Charlie Wilson votes to continue deficit spending without a budget

Going along with his apparent belief that he knows better than the voters: Comrade Charlie Wilson votes to keep up his rate of spending this country out of existence. This time by voting to keep up the massive spending without even voting on a budget.

Rather than making the tough choices (which he's incapable of) of cutting spending, he votes to "deem a bill passed". This lets him keep spending without a vote on the actual budget.

This guy needs to go.

Liberals' view of self defense in a nut shell

I've never heard it said by a liberal in such an open and honest manner.

"In his dissenting judgment, Breyer said there was no consensus over a fundamental right to self-defence. "The historical evidence is, at most, ambiguous.""

These people really do believe that you have no right to self defense.

Thanks to President Bush (via his legacy, Supreme Court Justice nominees) the Supreme Court decided that we actually do have a right to self defense.

"In their majority opinion, the five conservative supreme court judges, led by Justice Samuel Alito, said that the Chicago handgun ban was unconstitutional because it breached the right of the individual to own guns in his or her own home. "Self-defence is a basic right, recognised by many legal systems from ancient times to the present, and individual self-defence is the central component of the Second Amendment", the opinion says."

On a side note, how far have we digressed that we actually have to have an argument like this?

Didn't we fight the British to prove that these rights were not given by the government (which can take them away) but were God given?....meaning, of course, the government can't take them away.

Charlie Wilson strikes again

Here a Dispatch story about the rising cost of health care. The increased cost to Ohio tax payers (this is just the first quantifiable hit we are going to see) is $1,450,000,000.

This is due to our new socialized medicine bill that Comrade Charlie Wilson voted for.

2 fathers

Who would have ever thought that one day, we'd look back and think of the Impeached Clinton years with high regards.

Here, our president is bragging about "non-traditional" families and holds up for esteem, two perverts living together. But not just living together, raising children.

His Muslim brothers won't think highly of this sort of thinking.

Link to his "proclamation" on fatherhood.

Athens "farmer's market" and WIC

Here's an Athens News story about the Athens "farmer's market".

Lot's of quotes from local officials bragging about it, etc.... same old stuff.

"This summer, the Athens Farmers Market is using grant funding that will allow area residents who receive Food Assistance benefits to receive even more fresh fruits and vegetables at the market.

“The Food Assistance Program is wonderful,” Jack Cantrell, president of the Athens Farmers Market, said in the release. “We are having more and more participants all the time.”

In 2009, area residents spent about $21,000 in Food Assistance benefits on fresh fruits and vegetables at the Athens Farmers Market. This accounted for nearly half of all of the Food Assistance benefits used at farmers’ markets across the state.

“We are proud that we have such a group that works together to help people out in southeast Ohio. It’s just a good example of how by working together we can make things better for everybody,” Athens County Commissioner Lenny Eliason said in the release.

“I think it’s a win-win for everyone involved,” added County Commissioner Larry Payne who is a past president of the Farmers Market. “The Farmers Market has a history of providing fresh fruits and vegetables for people in our area. With this partnership, it allows people with lower incomes to have access to these products that they may not have had on their own. It’s just a great program.”"

Larry has one thing right, its a "win-win", just not for everyone.

It's a win for the hippies selling stuff.
It's a win for those receiving free taxpayer money to buy products from the hippies.

Two wins make it a "win-win"

However its a "lose" for the taxpayers. Taking money from people that work and giving it to people that don't.

I wonder if any of these local officials, or The Athens News for that matter, have ever wondered why prices are higher when the WIC coupons are handed out...........on sight....believe it or not.

Some "farmers" actually have two prices for the same product side by side. Higher prices for those paying with WIC coupons and lower prices for those paying cash.

Other "farmers" just have one set of higher prices during the time frame that the WIC coupons are in effect.

So, it looks to me that the taxpayers are getting hosed with this grand scheme. Yet our local officials all think it's great.

How does this make any sense?

I'm sure Charlie Wilson will support this bill

The democrats will stop at nothing, turn over every rock, looking for different ways to steal money from you.

Here they are trying to increase taxes on homebuilders. Which, of course, means the costs for building houses, or any other construction work, will rise.

Who pays this increase? (I feel the obligation to connect the dots for really slow democrats) The home buyer. So much for democrats wanting affordable housing.

Then we'll put more people out of work, which of course justifies more spending (according to government) because we have an increased (government caused) need.

On another note, this is the first time I've been disappointed with Cordray. I was actually thinking about voting for him (can't vote for RINO DeWine). I hope this isn't a habit of Cordray's, that is, to act like a liberal.

Of course, when / if this bill gets to the house, I'm positive this it is socialist enough for Comrade Charlie Wilson to support.

Charlie Wilson's debt

The author of this Forbes.com story gets it. Charlie Wilson with his obama supporting votes have increase the debt on our children exponentially.

"Since our overleveraged economy was the cause of the great recession, how can we avoid going into a double-dip recession if leverage is still being added?"

Weirdness at Federal Hocking's graduation

One of the girls graduated yesterday. Attached to her diploma was something that was strange to me, as I've never seen anything like this before. Maybe this happens all the time, but I've never seen it before.

It was a letter from our State Representative Debbie Phillips. I didn't find it odd that Debbie Phillips would want to hand out "congrats" letters to all the graduates. It makes good political sense to congratulate them, especially since they are all, now, voting age.

What I found odd was that the school would do her bidding for her.

Then, I remembered that George Wood (the high school principal who handed out the actual diplomas attached to this letter after the ceremony was over) is (or at least was) a member of the Athens County democrat Central Committee.

Makes me wonder of Jimmy Stewart (our State Senator who happens to be a Republican) was offered the same deal as Debbie?

I've been around Athens County too long not to think something fishy is going on. Maybe not??

Then, once you get to the letter itself, you realize that Debbie doesn't do herself any good when she refers to the graduates in the manner that she does. Or, more importantly, how the graduates interpret the tone of her letter.

Here it is, the phrase that really turns off the young ladies that I'm sure she feels are her voters anyway.

"Being from Southeastern Ohio, you have confronted challenges, etc........"

So, the implication is, you are really dumb, you're a hillbilly from Appalachia and it's a real achievement that you even graduated........you know.

More than one of my daughter's friends noticed this slight of hand in this letter.

I know the young people around here don't like being labeled as stupid and needing "help" just because of where they live geographically in Ohio. They see this labeling as nothing more than Bolshevik's trying to get more tax money for their socialist programs.

Here's a message to the label making politicians:

1. We have high speed Internet already, we don't need your help. If you'd get out of the way, private businesses would have had DSL to all the folks in SE Ohio by now.
2. We have and know how to use cell phones.
3. We even have color TV!
   

We don't need or want your "help". But if Debbie Phillips wants to continue to insult our young people, that's OK with me, she's just helping the GOP candidate for the 92nd district.

Cash for Clunkers coming home to roost

Remember when the dumb idea of the cash for clunkers program was implemented? Remember my post about the unintentional consequences of decreased supply of affordable used cars? And because of the limited supply the increase in prices in the future?

Well, the future is now.

See this Kiplinger's.com story

One more dumb idea by the democrats.

Strickland does one thing right

"Ohio has had more executions than any state outside the South."

Nothing to be ashamed of with that.

Dispatch's slanted story here.

Conservative candidate for the 18th district?

I'm not sure it's Bob Gibbs.

Charlie Wislon's inflation is on the way!

Charlies' national debt is now at $12,500,000,000.

Here's a story about the upcoming inflation. Yes, we can thank Congressman Charlie Wilson for this as he's supported every deficit spending bill President Barry has proposed.

Forbes.com story

Athens County Sheriff Office move

A few comments on this Athens News story and this Athens News story:

1. We currently have new property between Canaanville and Athens that is owned by the county. The County Engineer is using part of it. Why not move the Sheriff's office there?
2. Hockingport and Torch are currently the farthest away from our Sheriff's office. Now we want to move our Sheriff's office even further away, to The Plains? Why, when we could move the Sheriff's office to a more central locale that is already owned by the county?
3. I'm disappointed in Mark Sullivan suggesting a temporary sales tax increase. Right now, when people need to keep their money the most.
   
4. Don't ever trust the government when they want to "temporarily" raise the sales tax. If the county is anything like the state government, when it's time for the "temporary" sales tax to end, they'll just cut it in half and tell you that you just got a tax cut.
5. I'm glad Lenny is against a sales tax. However, what does he think issuing a bond does? It's borrowing money and then we have to repay it. The payments with interest take money away from other priorities. Sometimes, the shortages caused by having to repay bonds are excuses to raise taxes. Which, if we were not repaying our bonds, we'd have the money to begin with. Here's an idea, if we see a cost / need coming in the future, why don't we start setting aside money now to pay for this future need. Instead of running to lenders every time we "need" something.
   
6. Larry Payne gets it. Now is not the time to raise taxes. The only thing I'd add is, there is never a good time or reason to raise taxes. the less government we have, the better we are. One way to force less government is not feeding it.
   

Being in the kitchen is "sexist"?

Here's a Dispatch story about radical femi-nazis pretending to get upset over comments by a GOP county chairman.......or should I say "chair" to keep from offending someone?

So, apparently, if you are a woman and you like to cook, you are demeaning yourself and embarrassing womanhood as a whole. So much for choice.

Of course, Emily's List is an abortion group that is OK with killing women (if they are in the womb), so they really have no right to say much about being demeaning to women.

You picked a fine time to lead us, Barack