LEE RODGERSDROWNING IN DEBT --
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“GREECE” – NOT THE MUSICAL ...
CALIFORNIA IS #1 …
“GREECE” – NOT THE MUSICAL ...
CALIFORNIA IS #1 …
Barack Obama's demand that he be allowed to run up unlimited national debt is the real-world manifestation of P. J. O'Rourke's admonition that “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
FYI, the share of the national debt owed by each U.S. citizen of all ages is now 35% higher than the per-person debt of … GREECE.
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Victor Davis Hanson with a reminder of what our White House Marxist has done to/for us .
"We are still borrowing more than $1 trillion a year. Barack Obama has added more than $5 trillion to the national debt in just his first term alone. Such massive borrowing is unsustainable. Someone somehow at some time has to pay it back.
"Obama would agree. He once alleged that George W. Bush's much smaller deficits were 'irresponsible' and 'unpatriotic.' Obama himself vowed to cut the budge deficit in half by the end of his first term. Instead, Obama's annual deficits have never gone below $1 trillion."
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Only the gullible dupes who actually believed that manipulated nonsense about the pre-election unemployment rate dropping fractionally below 8% could be surprised that it's now being shown as 8.3%. Which actually far understates the mess Obama's made of the economy, because it doesn't take into account those who've given up and quit looking for work, or those working part-time or "off the books" (cash payments unreported to the IRS).
The Marxist demagogue is destroying the nation, yet fools follow him. Just ... incredible.
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Jay Leno --
"President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: 'Running Deficit.'
"There was one really awkward moment with the American Indians. In the middle of the meeting, Joe Biden walked in wearing a Redskins jersey."
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If – or when – the rebel opposition in Syria succeeds in ousting Assad, don't expect things to get better there. More likely is a government run by Muslim terrorist groups bent on yet another war with Israel, and they're not shy about saying so.
Any more stupid American liberals blathering about the wonderful fruits of the “Arab Spring” should be placed in a mental institution.
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“The main reason there isn't, and may never be, a solution on the fiscal cliff is that Barack Obama doesn't know how to do a political compromise. Where in his career did Barack Obama ever learn the art of the political deal? Nowhere.
“Liberal commentators like to cite Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill as a case study in political compromise. Barack Obama has become a case study of a president unable to compromise—with John Boehner or anyone else.” – Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
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The gun-grabbers (like Little Bobby Costas) can't wrap their tiny minds around one reality: The people most likely to commit crimes with guns are the very people least likely to obey laws banning guns. A triumph of wishful thinking over common sense.
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Congratulations, Californians! The launch over that much-talked-about “fiscal cliff” that brings about expiration of the Bush tax cuts will mean YOU'RE #1! Number one in taxes, that is, in the entire nation with a top bracket tax-load, state and federal, of 51.9%.
Now there's an incentive! Work hard to succeed, and the government will take more than half of what you earn. Part of the credit goes, of course, to Prop 30, passed by a majority of California voters. Way to go, comrades!
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Call it karma, poetic justice or just plain stupid politics, but here is a list of cities and states that will be hit hardest by Obama tax increases:
Top metro areas with most $250K households: Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, San Jose, Washington DC.
States with highest average housing values / mortgages: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, New York, Washington DC.
Metro areas with highest average housing values / mortgages: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco.
States with the highest percentage of people taking itemized deductions: California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Washington DC.
All of which have one thing in common. They all voted for Obama -- big-time!
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Sign of the times? Michigan's state legislature – both houses – has passed a right-to-work bill. The governor has indicated he'll sign it. The unions that have destroyed much of the state's economy are going bat-dung.
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An observation from reader Ken …
“Isn't it comforting to know that Obama's been consulting MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Al Sharpton on raising taxes? For once, Obama was the smartest man in the room.”
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Democrat politics, Chicago style …
“Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel disbanded the city's ethics board after a 25-year run in which it never found an alderman in violation -- even though, during that time, 20 aldermen were convicted of felonies.” – JWR
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Jay Nordlinger has been writing an excellent series at National Review Online regarding the takeover of our culture by the left. He offers this as one example ...
"Later this month, a new Matt Damon movie will come out. According to reports, it will portray hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as evil. The movie is bankrolled by Gulf Arabs — what a surprise. Fracking would be a boon to American energy, and is, to the degree it’s allowed. Don’t you think Damon & Co. should be embarrassed by the backing of Gulf Arabs?
"But who would do the embarrassing? Who would shame them? The keepers of the culture are on their side, right?
"The really depressing thing is, far more people will watch a Matt Damon movie than will bother to learn anything about oil production, including fracking."
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A friend makes the (unkind?) observation that hard-living has taken a toll on Lindsay Lohan to the point where “she's looking like an aging hooker who might give discounts and 'extras'” – whatever that means.
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Jazz great Dave Brubeck missed his 92nd birthday by one day. It was Thursday. He died on Wednesday. My wife, Susan, played harp and cello on one of his serious-music works, “Truth is Fallen.”
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Craig Ferguson --
"The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show' usually gives CBS a big boost in the ratings. That might get CBS to start sexing up some of their other shows, like putting the cast of '60 Minutes' in bathing suits."
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Jimmy Fallon --
"Barbara Walters has released part of her 'Most Fascinating People' list. This year Hillary Clinton and Honey Boo Boo are both on it. That's right. The woman who may soon be president -- and Hillary Clinton.
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."