Via Michelle Malkin: A list of the GOP house members who voted FOR the confiscatory tax on the AIG bonuses.
Follow the link to see if your legislator is on the list.
Traitors to the conservative movement. Legislators who either cannot understand the Constitution, or don’t care about it.
Either way, they need to be removed next election cycle.
Or sooner.
Long day..
Made breakfast:
French toast made with hommade bread, cinnamon and nutmeg and cocoa….
Maple Bacon (MMMMM….. BACON!)
Went to the beach. Walked about 5 miles in dunes and sand.
Exercised the dog…..And my arm.
Came home, cooked dinner:
Shrimp stuffed pork roast on the grill w/broccoli with cream sauce and mushrooms. Ginormous baked potato(e). A bottle of cheap wine.
No room for dessert.
Damn but sometimes life is fine.
It’s the simple things sometimes that lower your blood pressure.
Work tomorrow, but today was nearly perfect.
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“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.”
Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps someone should show this to our current crop of thieves representatives politicians.
But I bet that only half could understand it.
(shamelessly stolen from Blackfive.net)
Popcorn Sutton is dead. By his own hand, apparently.
A master has chosen his own path to eternity. His own route to the beyond.
He sure made good stuff. I learned a thing or two from him. The man knew likker.
Sure was a obstinate bastard fellow though.
RIP.
I’m not suggesting anything here……
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”
–Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I’m just sayin…
It’s something to keep in the back of your mind.
When did we become slaves to government and its employees?
When did we all agree that we are slaves to the IRS, the police, the congress and the house? The local governments as well as the layers in between?
Seriously, when did that happen? I thought that the government was “by the people” and “for the people”, not for itself and against (or over!) the people. We elected representatives to our government, yet they again and again do the opposite of the will of the people. They fail to represent us. They make laws that are not in the interest of the very people that they represent.
We are the people. They work for us, not we for them. President, Congressmen, state senators, mayors, county councilmen, and policemen. They are our employees, rather than we their subjects.
Yet these folks who fail to represent us continue to make laws that we do not want, and spend OUR money in ways that we dislike. They give our money to people and corporations that have not earned it, bailing out corporations with poor management practices. They hand out money to people who either will not work, choose not to, who have failed to bother to attain enough education to function in today’s society, or who are culturally disadvantaged enough that they fail to hold a job. They reward people who make bad decisions over and over again. They reward failure and laziness and punish success and hard work.
There is not a person among us who does not shudder in fear at the announcement of a tax audit. Yet the IRS is a government entity, one tasked by our representatives in government with collecting taxes. Taxes are a necessary thing (let’s not discuss how those taxes are used right here) yet the IRS is heavy handed in its zeal to collect. Failing to remember that the people pay their salaries and that they are indeed public servants, they abuse their authority, not in the collection of taxes, but in the enforcement of the law for those who fail to file or whose understanding of a complicated tax law is perhaps limited.
EPA is another example of a government agency that oversteps its bounds. Tasked with keeping our air and water clean, they have become an agency staffed by overzealous, poorly educated, maniacal people overwhelmed with authority and unafraid to abuse it.
How many times have you encountered a government employee who was nice and polite and efficient? Be it federal or state or county or municipal, they all have the attitude that we work for them, rather than the other way around. Efficiency is, of course, not a part of government. But to find a helpful government employee is a rarity.
And that leads us to the police agencies. Make no mistake, like taxes, the police are a necessity in our society. Many police officers are nice people. Many police departments are not nice. Polite professionalism seems to be waning, and many police are under the impression that they are, if not more privileged than the average citizen, at least above the law themselves.
When a police officer approaches a citizen, should the law abiding citizen fear them? Sadly, in most places, we do. The officers have the attitude that we, the citizens, are subject to their orders and commands. Are we? If breaking a law, and under arrest, then yes, we are. At any other time? No, we are not. You and I are not subjects of the police, yet they expect us to be obedient to their orders. Let’s not forget that the police have a tough job, and that they interact with the worst of our society, but to expect every citizen to act as if they were subject to the orders of an officer is ludicrous. The increased militarization of the police and use of hit squads for investigations and searches is another factor that needs realistic review. The immunity from prosecution is another.
Let us reign in our government employees. Now. Right now. Somehow, we need to remind them that they work for us, not the other way around. While I am not suggesting armed revolution here, we must do something. If we cannot modify the attitude of our governing officials, then we must take action. Somehow, we must reverse the trend.
Soon.
Had Obama (or even many of the senators that voted for it) bothered to read the $787 billion dollar stimulus bill, they would have known that the bill that they rushed through both houses had a provision to provide an exception for bonuses contractually obligated before February 11 of this year. The provision, and the exception, were inserted into the bill by the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Chris Dodd (D, Conn.), who has received more than $100,000 from AIG employees in the last 20 years, and had written and inserted the relevant provision, with the relevant loophole. Now, because it has come to light, he (and others of his ilk wish to, for political expediency, in some way rescind or, failing that, unconsitutionally tax, the bonuses)
So they cannot blame anyone but themselves for this debacle.
Were it not insulting to weasels, I’d call the entire bunch of senators who voted for this bill AND NOW HAVE THE BALLS TO WHINE ABOUT THE BONUSES, weasels.
So lets just say that they again have used poor judgement in their legislative endeavors.
But the facts are coming to light, and their duplicity shall not long remain hidden .
ETA: SCC has a list of donors and a different take on things. You should check out his list and commentary.
