Reasons for a vigilent Tea Party Movement

Some have wondered why the tea partiers are so worked up about taxes. Why, President Obama hasn't raised anyone's taxes. In fact, he lowered taxes for nearly everyone. This is baloney in its purest form. First of all, a tax rebate or tax credit is not lowering taxes. Only a reduction in rates can be considered lowering taxes. Rebates and credits are manipulations. Second, here is the short list of tax increases that are currently on the table.

1. Increase on stock dividends from 15% to 40% to take effect in 2011 (Senate Budget Committee). This would be a cyanide pill for the economy.

2. Increase in captial gains taxes due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.

3. Increase in the alternative minimum tax.

4. Increase in the inheritance tax (AKA the death tax).

5. The new "bank tax" promoted by Obama in his Cooper Union speech (4/22/10).

6. Last but not least (and not yet officially on the table), the European-style value-added tax (VAT). I might favor a VAT if it replaces income taxes, but if it's on top of the tax on income, then I'm adamantly against it.

These are six good reasons why the Tea Party Movement needs to remain vocal and vigilent.

Apocalypse now (or at least soon)

Interesting facts regarding the last presidential election: Obama won 28 states plus DC while McCain won 20. The total number of square miles of Obama states was 1,483,702 while McCain's were 2,310,315 (1,719,311 if we take out Alaska). The average murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Obama was 6.56 while in McCain's counties it was 3.6.

While the divide was less severe than in 2004, the continued reality is that the poorer, less law-abiding sectors of our nation continually vote for the Democrat while the more affluent and more law-abiding populations vote Republican. Should it be a surprise that the result of this trend is a progressive increase in the size of government largess. This is not to say that Republicans never engage in government-run charity, but clearly the Democrats are the primary progenitors of such programs. They certainly campaign the most stridently on their willingness to provide even more direct assistance to the "needy" among us.

Today, nearly half the population pays no income taxes at all, and many of these same people (perhaps as much as 40% of the population) depend on some form of government hand-out. We have an ever-growing divide between the providers of revenue and the recipients of benefits. The question is, how do we ever stop our nation from continuing to move in this direction?

We have recently seen in Greece what happens when citizens are threatened with the loss of government entitlements: rioting in the streets. Once a benefit is bestowed, it is virtually impossible to take it back, regardless of the consequences it's having on the economy. This is why the Founders foresaw the inherent dangers in granting gifts from the public treasury to the voting citizens. Human nature inclines most people to vote themselves the best benefits, regardless of how it effects anything else.

Today we have a society that is putting its government gifts on a charge card and saddling the next generation with the payments. This is serious enough, but if Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal immigrants, and they begin to vote, we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. I think that this clearly plausible scenario can rightly be call an Apocalypse.

Ticked off press.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/13/AR2010041303067_pf.html

Interesting how the mainstream press is beginning to turn on the president, not because of any policy concerns, but because he is dissing them.

Gonorrhea Lectim

Important information has just been released from the Center for Disease Control that all Americans should be made aware of. It concerns a new and virulent strain of an old disease called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced "Gonna re-elect 'im"). This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting your cranium up your rectum. Many victims contracted it in 2008, but now most people, after having been infected for the past 1-2 years, are starting to realize how destructive this sickness really is. It's sad because it is so easily cured with a new procedure just coming on the market called Votemout! You take the first dose/step in 2010 and the second in 2012. You must then avoid engaging in such behavior again in the future, otherwise it could become a permanent condition and eventually wipe out all life as we know it. Several states are already controling the spread of this disease such as Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, with many more seeing the handwriting on the wall. Please pass this important announcement on to every American you really care about.

Unprecedented retreat

Here's the lead sentence from a story on Breitbart today:

• NASA announced Tuesday that it signed a contract with the Russian space agency to shuttle US astronauts to the orbiting International Space Station.

And here's the lead from a story linked on Drudge:

• CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered Wednesday to help Uruguay expand a refinery and supply it with crude oil. Chavez and visiting Uruguayan President Jose Mujica are expected to sign accords pledging to deepen trade and energy ties between the two South American nations.

You've seen the stories about the Nuclear Posture Review (The politicization of this process itself is scandalous and dangerous, but that's another matter)

And the stories about Putin offering Ahmedinejad and the Iranians pretty vast support for their nuclear enterprise and ramped up military support.

And the stories about sabotaging Israel. And sandbagging Karzai.

All of these - from space, to our own hemisphere, to our strategic deterrent, to our humiliation of our allies, to our impotence in the face of Russian/Iranian provocation - all of these tell a tale of American retreat from global leadership that is unprecedented. Our weakness is provocative. The rational response of our longtime friends will be to make their own security arrangements; what choice do they have? The response of our enemies will be to become emboldened to be more adventuresome. And our response will be . . . what? To apologize?

I don't think the left has a clue as to how vital US strength is to the global order. In its absence, we'll see the realization of Yeats' warning: "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."