Is working until Tax Freedom Day slavery?
April 23, 2012
Is working until Tax Freedom Day slavery?
Labor union sues Indiana, calls working alongside nonunion employees ‘slavery’
Let’s see what their claim is:
The International Union of Operating Engineers, whose members work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics and construction surveyors, sued Indiana’s governor, attorney general, and labor commissioner in February, alleging that the state’s “right to work” law is unconstitutional.
Indiana’s law prohibits employers from making union membership a condition of getting or keeping a job. The union’s February lawsuit claimed the law violated its members’ Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of “equal protection” under the law.
But an amended complaint filed on Wednesday added a Thirteenth Amendment claim as well. The new lawsuit suggests that when nonunion employees earn higher salaries and better benefits because of the union’s negotiation on behalf of its members, the union has been forced to work for those nonunion employees for free.
And being forced to work without compensation, the union suggested in its revised lawsuit, is slavery.
If the union employees do their job, and some people other than union members benefit (speculative), they call that slavery? They aren’t very magnanimous, are they?
Let’s follow their logic… They seem to be making an argument for both of these cases which I doubt they would agree with.
- Before the “right to work” law, union members had to work for a period of time to earn their union dues, they did not receive money for that time as compensation. Isn’t it slavery when workers are being forced to work while the union takes their compensation as “dues”?
- Unions are in favor of higher taxes because some of it trickles down into union dues. Isn’t working until Tax Freedom Day slavery?
The union workers aren’t being “forced to work” any more than a taxpayer or worker who is required to join a union as a condition of employment.
Shovel Ready: Dig Hole, Fill With Money
April 23, 2012
Shovel Ready in San Fran: $205,075 to ‘Translocate’ One Shrub from Path of Stimulus Project
(CNSNews.com) — The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009. …
The bush—a Franciscan manzanita—was a specimen of a commercially cultivated species of shrub that can be purchased from nurseries for as little as $15.98 per plant.
The Democrats like to use the Corzine term “Shovel Ready”, which apparently means to dig a hole and pour taxpayer money into it.
What’s that got to do with THE PRICE OF GAS
March 11, 2012
Let’s get one thing straight. Increasing taxes on “Big Oil” or increasing taxes on gas will mean you pay more, including taxes, at the pump.
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It’s Bush’s fault. HAHAHAHAHahahaha! “Energy independence”. Right.
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Let’s begin with 2008 ads from Candidate for President, Senator Barack Obama:
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DNC Chair Attacked Bush For High Gas Prices
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“We will free ourselves from foreign oil” – Barack Obama 2008
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Barack Obama 2008 Ad About High Gas Prices
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Another Obama 2008 ad on Gas Prices
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John McCain blamed for soaring gas prices – Obama’s New Ad “Original”in 2008
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Obama 2008 ad Attacks McCain for High Gas Prices
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Obama 2008 Ad Attacks McCain for High Prices At The Pump
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Let’s get one thing straight. Increasing taxes on “Big Oil” or increasing taxes on gas will mean you pay more, including taxes, at the pump. That’s not the only consequence.
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JOHNSON: Obama promises fuel but produces hot air
President’s budget adds tax and regulatory burdens to fossil fuels
Two weeks ago in his State of the Union address, President Obama called for more domestic oil and natural gas development. More development of our own oil and natural gas supplies could create vast numbers of new American jobs, enhance our energy security, and deliver hundreds of billions more in revenue to the federal government. [...]
And with the right policies we could do even more.
Unfortunately, in his budget plan for fiscal year 2013, the president proposed policies that would make extending these successes more difficult. His budget calls for raising taxes on oil and natural gas companies by more than $85 billion.
A tax hike of this magnitude would discourage investment in new U.S. oil and natural gas projects – or direct it overseas – resulting in fewer new American jobs, less domestic energy, diminished energy security, a higher trade deficit, and eventually, less revenue for our government.
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The plan seems to be: 1.) Vote for me, I’m going to tax “Big Oil”, 2.) Collect higher taxes at the pump and the redistribute the taxes in the form of a “tax break”, so vote for me. HAHAHAHahah!
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When Wall Street Makes Crap Loans, It’s a Crisis; When DOE’s Steven Chu Does It, It’s Green Energy.
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If they did raise taxes (“close big oil loopholes”) on gas, what would they do with the money?
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Report: 80% of DOE Green Energy Loans Went to Obama Backers
Peter Schweizer details the startling extent of the cronyism that has pervaded President Obama’s “green jobs” push. According to Schweizer, 4 out of every 5 renewable energy companies backed by the Energy Department was “run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backers.”
Those companies’ “political largesse is probably the best investment they ever made in alternative energy,” Schweizer explains. “It brought them returns many times over.”
Such is the inevitable consequence of large government interventions in private markets.
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Oh, this is fun!
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Gas Station for Obama
Prices At The “Obama Gas Station” Are Up $0.36 [probably more now] From Four Years Ago
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Obama taking nine extra military aircraft for campaigning, starting in April
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Low carbon footprint, indeed. Why are the taxpayers paying for his campaigning?
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5 Biggest Whoppers In Obama’s Energy Speech
Here’s a condensed version:
[WHOPPER:} "We're focused on production."
Fact: While production is up under Obama, this has nothing to do with his policies, but is the result of permits and private industry efforts that began long before Obama occupied the White House.
Obama has chosen almost always to limit production [...]
[WHOPPER:} "The U.S. consumes more than a fifth of the world's oil. But we only have 2% of the world's oil reserves."
Fact: Obama constantly refers to this statistic to buttress his claim that "we can't drill our way to lower gas prices." The argument goes that since the U.S. supply is limited, it won't ever make a difference to world prices.
It's bogus. New exploration and drilling technologies have uncovered vast amounts of recoverable oil. [...]
[WHOPPER:} "Because of the investments we've made, the use of clean, renewable energy in this country has nearly doubled."
Fact: Production of renewable energy — biomass, wind, solar and the like — climbed just 12% between 2008 and 2011, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.
[WHOPPER:} "We need to double-down on a clean energy industry that's never been more promising."
Fact: Renewable energy simply won't play an important role in the country's energy picture anytime soon, accounting for just 13% of U.S. energy production by 2035, according to the EIA.
[WHOPPER:} "There are no short-term silver bullets when it comes to gas prices."
Fact: Obama could drive down oil prices right now simply by announcing a more aggressive effort to boost domestic supplies. When President Bush lifted a moratorium in 2008, oil prices immediately fell $9 a barrel.
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Um... those are serious whoppers. Are those intentional misrepresentations of facts or are liberals just bad at math?
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US drilling under President Obama: Fact vs. fiction
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According to the left, drilling and developing domestic sources won't effect the price of gas, and supply and demand don't work. If that were true, if they really believed that, then why would releasing emergency oil reserves lower the price?
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Are high prices during an election year an emergency?
Oil: Should President Obama Tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
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Nancy Pelosi’s Gasoline Lies, Linked and Debunked
Jeff Goldstein has done us all a service, at great risk to his sanity. He delved into a Nancy Pelosi press release, wherein she blamed high gas prices on eeeeeeeee-vil speculators, Wall Street, Republicans, the Easter Bunny, and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Okay, I made up the latter two, but, really what can you do with anything Nancy Pelosi says but laugh at it and pity the poor people who have to spend all day listening to her attempt to warp reality to fit her own bizarre worldview. As it happens, Jeff did the one useful thing you could do with a Nancy Pelosi statement. He identified all the lies and put links behind them to the facts and for that, we should all be grateful.
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Top 10 Obama energy blunders
1. Keystone kerfuffle [...]
2. Volt vanity [...]
3. Solyndra silliness [...]
4. Tesla travesty [...]
5. Moratorium morass [...]
6. Drilling dashed [...]
7. Price pandemonium [...]
8. Cap and trade catatonic [...]
9. Algae acclamation [...]
10. Energy excess
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We will be “green” and use electricity instead, how about THAT?
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Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket
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Obama Wanted High Gas Prices…Gradually (2008 Election Campaign)
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Obama 2008: Dealing with higher energy costs is a sacrifice I expect Americans to make
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Obama: “As Long As Gas Prices Are Going Up, People Are Going to Feel Like I’m Not Doing Enough”
Obama: People Want To See The President Do Something About High Gas Prices
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Despite Record Gas Prices Democrats Kill Another Arctic Drilling Project
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Speaker Boehner on Today’s Keystone Decision: President Obama Is “Shipping American Energy Security to the Chinese” (VIdeo)
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What a coincidence! Timothy Geithner went to school in Communist China. How abut that?
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Seriously.
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Why Are Gasoline Prices High (And What Can Be Done About It)?
Policymakers often blame high gasoline prices on oil company profits, collusion, or speculators, but understanding what really goes into the cost of gasoline is key to understanding what the government could do to lower prices. [...]
Setting aside conspiracy theories about oil company collusion—a perennial favorite of politicians of all stripes—the primary reason for high gasoline prices, as any economist will tell you, is very simple: world demand for oil (from which gasoline is made) is high, and the available supply is limited. The cost of crude oil as a share of the retail price of gasoline varies over time, but in January 2012, it was 76 percent.
And what drives the price of oil? Many factors, according to the Energy Information Association:
Supply and demand in the world oil market are balanced through responses to price movements, and the factors underlying expectations for supply and demand are both numerous and complex. The key factors determining long-term expectations for oil supply, demand, and prices can be summarized in four broad categories: the economics of non-OPEC conventional liquids supply; OPEC investment and production decisions; the economics of unconventional liquids (such as oil from oil-sand or shale) supply; and world demand for liquids.
Back in 2006, the EIA observedthat prices have risen since 2000 as a result of strong demand growth in developing economies (such as China), supply disruptions, and “inadequate investment to meet demand growth.”
Unrest in the Middle East is a perennial cause of worry over world oil supplies, and the recent explicit threats by Iran to close the Straits of Hormuz can’t be promoting confidence in oil consumer markets.
Another source of supply uncertainty is the moratorium that the Obama administration placed on U.S. development of domestic oil production in the last two years
More to come, so stay tuned!
http://is.gd/yf0CE4
H/T
Welcoming The New Media
March 6, 2012
Andrew Breitbart was correct. The media is not doing their job.
It seems evident the old “news media” are instead advocating for leftism, Obama, Democrats, cultural and government “transformation”.
Welcome the New Media! I recommend wonderful recent entries:
Washington Free Beacon
BadBlue
Breitbart 2.0
For the reporting on MediaMatters: The Daily Caller
I’m just getting started… Hot Air
Enjoy!
Not About Contraception
March 2, 2012
The Obamacare supporters, the lovers of mandates, big micromanaging government supporters, the leftists seem to think the objection to their mandates is an objection to contraception.
Some people do think it’s wrong.
Why should it be “free”?
What’s next, free abortion on demand? Forcing churches to provide and pay for abortions?
It’s going down the same road as abortion. First it was “legal to make it safe”. Then it was “a choice”. Then it became “women’s health care”. Of course that was followed by “access to women’s health care”. Finally it became “a right to free health care”. A right? Anyone think it’s accidental that ocurred?
Here are two articles, today’s news, that illustrate just how far off the reservation (I’m trying to be polite) the thinking of the left is.
Sebelius: Decrease in Human Beings Will Cover Cost of Contraception Mandate
http://is.gd/ie1z6a
(CNSNews.com) – Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a House panel Thursday that a reduction in the number of human beings born in the United States will compensate employers and insurers for the cost of complying with the new HHS mandate that will require all health-care plans to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortions.
“The reduction in the number of pregnancies compensates for the cost of contraception,” Sebelius said. She went on to say the estimated cost is “down not up.”
Did the concepts of morality, ethics and freedom ever enter in their minds?
Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say
http://is.gd/j07kLI
You know what? I agree with the headline. They are both wrong. However, the subtitle reveals a different perspective.
Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
”Experts say”. “a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University”. Unbelieveable.
When the Democrats say that “Republicans want to prevent women from receiving health care”, I believe they are being intentionally disingenuous. That sounds so much better than calling them liars.
With Blunt Amendment stopped, what’s next in battle against Pres. Obama’s controversial contraception policy?
When I say “Contraception”, it also applies to abortifacients, sterilization, abortion, etc.
People should have the freedom to buy health insurance that does not cover the cost of contraception, if they want to.
People should have the freedom to control the money they earned and not be forced to use it to pay for someone else’s contraception.
It’s further objectionable that these mandates are not created by legislation. They are “rules and regulations” from a bureaucratic, unelected, unaccountable government agency without the consent of the people.
Here’s a Senator who thinks freedoms come from Senators, our from Our Maker:
”Experts say”. “a group of medical ethicists”. “Senator”. I have another word for them.
Obama Democrats Party Of Orgasms & Abortions Not Jobs And Low Priced Gas
As you’re desperately dangling in your Obama weaved safety net, you can rest assured of one thing concerning Obama and the Democratic Party. They are thoroughly obsessed and fighting for your right to have a tax payer funded orgasm and/or abortion. [...]
Obama and his Democrats don’t care about jobs, and unemployment [or the price of gas]. All they care about is funding their responsibility free lifestyle. A lifestyle filled with orgasms and murder of the unborn, funded by tax payers. They claim to be the party of jobs. They may be the party of jobs, but it’s not the kind of jobs most of us worry about.
Obama’s Solution For High Gas Prices
February 29, 2012
Obama’s Solution For High Gas Prices
Okey Dokey.
