Last night Charles Adler and Ezra Levant’s producer, Rikki Ratliff, had an in-depth discussion about why so many Americans are disenchanted with their federal government.
According to the Chorus on the Left, the government and all of its public sector workers are the key reason for America’s prosperity and everything good in it. Is it possible that this is not true?!
If Americans are so disenchanted with their federal government then why do they never vote to reduce it?
“According to the Chorus on the Left,the government and all of its public sector workers are the key reason for America’s prosperity and everything good in it.”
The modern day Walter Durantys in the media and Marxist sleepers in the educational system have done a good job of brainwashing the American people into the soviet way of thinking.
House panel boosts rural air service subsidies
WASHINGTON – Tea party lawmakers from rural areas were among those fighting the hardest to preserve taxpayer subsidies for airline flights into and out of small towns last year after senior Republicans tried to eliminate the oft-criticized program. Now, the House Appropriations Committee is awarding the program an 11 percent budget hike.
Next year, the subsidies would reach a record $214 million under a bill the GOP-run committee approved Tuesday.
The subsidies can reach hundreds of dollars per ticket — and can exceed $1,000 in a few routes. A recent change to the program will soon take care of such $1,000-plus cases, but critics of the program say more needs to be done to shelter taxpayers from runaway costs.
Last year, the House voted to eliminate the program in the lower 48 states by 2013. But rural tea party lawmakers like Reps. Rick Berg, R-N.D., and Kristi Noem, R-S.D., were among those who fought to save it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/19/house-panel-boosts-rural-air-service-subsidies/#ixzz2INJud2XI
“Didn’t the Government Build It?”
Nope. If it’s a complete,total,and colossal eff-up,THAN the pipples obviously scre…….er……built it. After all,do we not pay and subsidize our leeches such high rates so it will attract only the best? How could they screw-up?
Because, LAS, we so rarely are given the opportunity to vote for a candidate who will actually do so. The Republican Party and the Democrat Party are merely opposite ends of the same steaming turd. Looking at Romney’s record in Taxachussetts, he is nothing more than the Chimp in Chief without the tan. Elect him, and the only change is whose cronies are slopping at the government trough. Even on the current gun treason, Mittens was to the LEFT of Obama during his term as governor.
Posted by: Mark Matis on January 18, 2013 7:50 PM
That’s we us Northern folks are fighting, crazy mad, to
keep P.M. Harper.
He is doing the best he can, dragging the sniveling,
tantrum throwing Left, behind him, much like a Toddler
behind a frustrated Parent.
dwright
But Gary Johnson was that opportunity and so was GoldWater. Americans love big government they are just in denial.
Any notion that Harper is taking Canada in the direction of smaller government is based on delusion and fantasies.
Any notion that Stephen Harper is not the best possible choice to be Prime Minister including that Turd 0 spawn from Quebec is absolutely a delusional fantasy.Just look at the last bunch of Quebecers that occupied the throne,Martin [AKA Mr.Dithers],Chretien[ AKA the Shawinigan Strangler],Mulroney[AKA lyin Brian],and last and most certainly least[ Peeair[AKA the guy who couldn t satisfy Maggie].The last thing we need is some Quebecer who tells lies in both official languages and uses a different version of the truth in each.
LAS he is the Captain of the Titanic doing his best to turn before the iceberg.
(Historical fact, that Captain shut down the engines and lost rudder control)
Harper is keeping the engines on, and slowly but surely
turning the ship.
There’s and old joke about a Battleship vs a Lighthouse.
No matter how small, the lighthouse is going to win…
dwright
Well LAS, do you have any quantitative data on how many people illegally voted for Obozo? Also, we don’t know to what degree fraudulent vote counting was involved. What happened in Philadelphia likely happened all over the country. Considering that Romney is a member of the political class, he’s not going to waste much time fighting this as he probably views Obozo more favorably than Ron Paul.
What disappoints me is that Charles Adler still believes that the War of Northern Aggression was carried out to “free the slaves”. The roots of the War of Northern Aggression were purely economic and the Confederacy was justified in seceding from a union which was discriminating against it. This war was also the start of the shredding of the US constitution which is why I consider Lincoln to be the worst president in US history although Obozo may yet replace him.
As a rule, I stay out of big cities now, but where I’ve been in the countryside of the USA, people are very pissed off and not at all supportive of the Kenyan who’s stolen the presidency. The press is based in large cities and assumes that everyone thinks the same as they do and look down upon the self-reliant rednecks in the countryside.
Large cities are very fragile systems as we saw with New York still recovering from a storm that they had almost a week to prepare for (but didn’t). Having all ones supporters living in what is essentially a fantasy virtual reality in the city is not a good thing. They don’t handle the unexpected very well. They’ll just wait for the government to help them out and given them free stuff.
If we ever do get into another US civil war, this time the side with the bulk of the manufacturing capability, that is the best armed and which highly values individual initiative and self-reliance, is the one in opposition to the Washington dictatorship. A majority of members of the US military are drawn from the areas on the US map that are colored in red. It’s not difficult to predict which way their loyalties will go if Obozo continues his assault on the constitution and derides American individual initiative. One could tell Obozo, you didn’t get to the White House on your own, it was the government that put you there with affirmative action, leftist law school professors who treated you differently and the communist element of the Democratic party who saw you as a useful puppet. No wonder you think that no-one can accomplish anything on their own.
Harper is keeping the engines on, and slowly but surely
turning the ship.
Apparently personality cults and elevation of their subjects to demigod status are not just for Obama.
Chretien, Mulroney, and Martin were all better than Harper. Which says little about those 3 but just goes to show how awful Harper is.
we don’t know to what degree fraudulent vote counting was involved.
But that won’t stop people like you from implying Obama somehow won on fraud. OBAMA WON. BUILD A BRIDGE AND GET OVER IT. This crap is almost as bad as ‘robocalls’.
No. You had best see David Goldman on this matter, but it does seem that Lincoln intended to end slavery no matter what. A compromise was available – allow the South to expand southward, eventually giving up slavery in the continental US. Lincoln didn’t take it, and the South knew that he would not. His moral repugnance against slavery emerges in the Second Inaugural Address.
Of course, one could argue that idealism and lucre were not distinct – that the Northern states were not going to tolerate slavery, so it was necessary to force the South into abolition.
As for the morality of the Sough’s secession, it would necessarily yield to Realpolitik – it was intolerable to the North that the South should control the mouth of the Mississippi. Remember that Pittsburgh, a major industrial centre, is also a major port which connects to the sea through the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
OK, it may be nit-picking, but the North controlled New Orleans throughout most of the civil war. This was a very significant strategic victory for the Northern forces. Yes, the South had it at the start of the civil war, but not for long.
With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight the best message one could send back to the Southern states in a time machine is “pick you own damn cotton”.
Government is no more than a morality play, acted out to allow the fiction of civilization to be maintained.
Civilization is us having sufficient mutual trust, that we may safely cooperate, so creating new wealth.
Without that trust, I must guard my own back, 24/7 and build nothing I can not protect or carry.
The trust that our institutions be honest, law will rule, equality of all before these laws , excreta..
Politicians beg us for the opportunity to play the major roles required, bureaucrats are more minor actors so get appointed by the pollies.
As long as the show stays believable, we trust enough to ,create more wealth acting together, than what we would do in fear and isolation.
That is the benefit of civilization, the benefit of the political bureaucracy.
When the cost of the show exceeds that additional wealth, civilization will collapse.
We live in interesting times, the actors have forgone their roles,elected & appointed royalty believe they are above all laws,police are forbidden to enforce laws, these non producers believe that they control production
and that they have power separate from that we have invested in these roles.
Every year you hear the bureaucracy lamenting, “Productivity in Canada is falling, we will need to add more regulation and interference to help improve the little peoples performance.”