Coin Clipping

The penny is worthless because of inflationary spending by our government.

Story here

It's worthless because we inflate our money causing it to be worth - less.

The fact that it costs more "money" to make a penny than what it's currently worth is a symptom, not the cause.

Dishonest governments love coin clipping, it's been going on for 2,000-3,000 years, nothing new here.  Steal from the population via inflation, then raise taxes, then confiscate the real money (gold/silver), etc.... nothing new here.

Sometimes doing nothing is the right answer

None of these Republicans can say it. That, maybe the right answer in Lybia is to do nothing.

IF, we are not concerned about the massive amount of oil under Lybia, why get involved?

Muammar al-Qaddafi has kept Lybia semi-stable in an unstable part of the world. Do we really want to support a bunch of rebels with ties to al qaeda?

I hate to say it, but there's no other logical answer why an anti-war president would relent to bomb another sovereign country, OIL.

So, since this anti-war president has to keep the spigot open in the middle east, it comes back to his actions or in-actions on the domestic oil front. Allow drilling in ANWAR and other federally owned lands. Start issuing permits to drill in the gulf.

Obama has backed himself into a corner forcing him to do something that completely against everything he stands for....sort of like "chickens coming home to roost".

demagoguery= strickland+obama

Demagogy

Demagogy ( /ˈdɛməɡɒdʒi/^[1]) or demagoguery ( /ˈdɛməɡɒɡəri/^[2]) (Ancient Greek: δημαγωγία, from δῆμος dēmos "people" and ἄγειν agein "to lead") is a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public—typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist, populist or religious themes. What qualifies as demagogy has been the subject of debate and ambiguity since Aristophanes first used the term, in reference to the Athenian statesman, Cleon.[3]

This is obama and strickland to a tee.

Some thoughts about the union protests in Wisconson and Ohio.

1. Strickland is using up what little good will he had with the public when he left office. He was defeated and he is no longer Governor. Yet he insists in getting into bed with the public employee unions and obama's brown shirts.
2. Wisconson's protests prove the conservative's points. They are teachers who have called off sick. Who, in the real world, would call of work sick and then go in front of TV cameras and protest the same people that gave them the very generous sick time to begin with? In the private sector, these folks would be fired. These people have no fear of being fired or even disciplined for lying to their employer, the tax payers. This is exactly the type of entitlement attitude that the public is fed up with.
   
3. Here we have a bunch of tax payer funded "Doctors" handing out fake "sick notes" to tax payer funded employees who are gaming the sick day system.
4. barry is sending his brown shirt thugs to incite violence. Keep it up obama, you are on the wrong side on this one. Your true Bolchevick leanings are finally really showing through. You had a chance to be "moderate" yet all you really are is a national socialist, community organizer, union thug.
   
5. I like what I see from Kasich, so far..... if he can get the unions this mad at him, he must be doing something right. Of course, this is not much of a standard, as the unions get mad when anyone talks about saving taxpayers money.
6. States can't print money like obama and the ferderal reserve. Something has to be done. If Strickland was still in office, he'd have to deal with this issue. The unions would have been strangely silent.
7. Strickland is really being a demagogue on this. He was just Governor. He knows exactly the mess our states budget is in. He helped cause it. Now, he's out calling our new Governor names? Give me a break!
8. barry and ted both helped cause this with barry printing funny money and handing it out to the states (to keep their union buddies employed with taxpayer money) and ted kicking the hard decisions down the road to the next Governor. He has no right to get righteous on this.
   

Barry is the reason for the high fuel prices

Shell: No Beaufort Sea drilling in Arctic for 2011

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Shell Alaska has dropped plans to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea this year and will concentrate on obtaining permits for the 2012 season, company Vice President Pete Slaiby said Thursday.

The recent remand of air permits issued by the Environmental Protection Agency was the final driver behind the decision, Slaiby said at a news conference."

We force companies to "buy" leases to drill off shore. Then, after the mobster government gets the money, they don't allow them to drill! Normally, this would be called, THEFT.

The average price for 87 octane gasoline when barry took office was $1.86. Now it's $3.14. Where's the outrage and stories blaming him? Asking him what he's going to do about it??

Not that I think that the government should do anything about the price of gas. What they should do is quit hindering drilling, which actually raises the price of fuel.

Comments on this "news" story.

"Sen. Begich, Obviously the Demos. Regime wants Alaska to suffer and the rest of us to get a wind mill to run our trucks. You need to change parties and help get votes through the Senate to save our Citizens and nation.
Abolish the EPA and nullify all regulations. States can take care of themselves cheaper and better than the Fed."

"How to predict Obama's every move: If it's against this country, that's his plan. He will accuse the "right" of everything HE'S guilty of."

You can't melt paper dollars

The US government (Federal Reserve) is really smart.

OK, They are really devious and dishonest.

Here is a story of the Indian Government arresting a smart man. His crime? Melting some of his own currency, yes, he owned it....even if it was issued by his government.

The reason he was melting it is because it is worth more as pure silver than the face value of the coin.

Back to the comment about our government being dishonest and devious. They quit making coins with silver in 1964 (90%) and 1969 (40%).

So, our money is absolutely worthless. It's made of nothing. Our coins are made of junk metals that are worth much less than the face value of the coin. How is this honest?

See Coinflation's website to see just what a dime is really worth.

But, we have went one step further, we have issued paper money. Nothing backs it up!

This is the same government that is going to borrow itself out of debt. This ponzi scheme will come to and end.

The Federal Reserve is the legal mafia. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were right in being afraid of a central bank. Ron Paul is right to try to abolish it.

You wonder why gas is $3.19 / gal?

Obama can't even issue permits to drill in the gulf.......even after his "ban" has been lifted.

Obama is intentionally manipulating oil prices by limiting supply, deliberately hurting the oil business and the price of oil if spiking.

Wall Street Journal Story here

Where's the outrage now? Apparently outrage is only in vogue when a Republican is in the White House.

The joke of a federal worker pay freeze

As this writer points out, our incompetent mistake in chief is proposing a 2 year pay "freeze" for federal employees.

However, it's conveniently after 5 years of massive pay increases!

Link here

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.

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.

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?"

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.

You picked a fine time to lead us, Barack

Schlafly: Health Care Vote Set to Expose the Myth of the 'Pro-Life Democrat'

One could think of our congresscritter Charlie Wilson when reading this. However, no one really believes he was ever pro-life. He just mouthed the words when we was running for congress.

Schlafly: Health Care Vote Set to Expose the Myth of the 'Pro-Life Democrat'

Charlie Wilson: Who's to blame for this pro-abortion "health care bill"??

When he votes for this bill, he will "own it" just as much as barry does.

All he has to do is vote no. But he won't. He's tied at the hip with our embarrassment in chief to grow a back bone of his own and vote to protect his district from this monstrous, debt increasing, states rights infringing, baby killing bill.

Charlie Wilson is no "conservative pro-life democrat". He will vote exactly like Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.

He will be voting to use your tax money to kill babies. What has our country come to when our representative can justify killing innocent babies because he thinks this bill has some good things in it. I say "he thinks" because he hasn't read it. No one has had time to read it. Yet, he'll vote for it.

He is going to vote for a bill that is unconstitutional. No where is this allowed in the constitution. The 10th Amendment specifically denies it. He swore to uphold the constitution, yet he is going to lie to us with this one vote.

He is going to force young people to pay thousands for health insurance, even though this is one group that does not need it. It's a choice that needs left up to individuals, not government. Then if folks don't get insurance, they'll pay a fine. The fine will be small enough that many will just pay the fine rather than the thousands for the privilege of being in a government run health care system. Then, when these people that don't get insurance do get sick, they can just start paying premiums and get their sickness taken care of. No insurance will be able to deny them insurance due to the law (Wilson will vote for) which will not let people with "pre-existing" conditions be denied insurance. HMM... this is going to save money how???

I could go on. This can be summed up with this: Bad bill + horrible representation = bad law.

Media=Idiots / Idiots = Media

Here's an Associated "press" "story".

It's related to Idaho passing a bill directing their Attorney General to sue the Federal Government when / if "health care" is passed.

This is the sentence that really proves that the media have no clue about our government or our Constitution.

"Constitutional law experts say the move is mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede those of the states."

Two thoughts:

1. You don't have to be a "constitutional law expert" (whatever that is) to know that the federal government only have specified (in the constitution) powers. If they are not specified in the constitution (see 10th amendment) they have no power over the states. (of course the states let themselves be rolled by the feds because the fed can print their own money and bride states to go along with dumb and totalitarian ideas.
2. Anyone can hire an "expert" on any subject with any view point you want to pay for.
   

One more reason no one takes the so called media serious.

This goes for obama as well

Our bowing President...this guy is an embarrassment

The cost of money

There are many folks that want to eliminate the penny.

One of the reasons is that it's worthless due to inflation.

NPR story here. (And no I don't sit around reading NPR, this link was sent to me.)

Why don't we stop inflating our money to begin with? We need to wake up to the fact that our government is stealing from us with our inflated money.

Of course the government wants to make money out of cheap material (remember Space's idea to make pennies out of steel?). This way they can mint and print all they want.

If money were made out of silver or copper, the government couldn't print as much.....of course the outcome would be that they couldn't inflate themselves out of debt on your, er...dime.

Congressman Wilson was right!

Joe Wilson, that is.

Remember when Congressman Joe Wilson yelled "you lie" to obama?

Well, of course, he was correct.

Here's the latest lie.

Remember obama's promise to not to sign bills with earmarks included in them?

Here you go, 5,224 earmarks.

CNSNEWS.com story