South Bay Tax Day Tea Party

Compassion or Destruction

Is it Compassionate to give money and services to people to make them a permanent dependent class?

It is Compassionate to give them "Health Insurance" but NO Doctors.  (85% of doctors have considered quitting.)?

There are 100,000 gang members in Chicago (7/12/12 News) and they are currently in a gang war that has killed 245 people many who are innocent bystanders.  Is this compassionate to take away a man's means of supporting a family and self fullfillment that a job offers and instead make his provision unnecessary, becuase the government will take care of his children and girlfriends?

It is compassionate to disarm the good and Godly citizens of Chicago and instead allow 100,000 armed gang members, who believe it or not, do not follow the repressive gun restrictions in Chicago?  There are only 200 gang officers in Chicago.  Imagine if they actually organized together against the police.  Wow Destruction. (more)

 

• In the 1960s, there were 18 workers per Medicaid recipient. Today that number is 2.5.

• The number of Americans on disability has risen 19% faster than jobs created during this recovery.

• There are just 1.2 private sector workers per 1 person on welfare or working for government.

• There are now just 1.65 employed persons in private sector per 1 person on welfare assistance.

You can see where this is going: total collapse followed by “fundamental transformation,” just as the Cloward-Piven strategy predicts. Each time the Democrats come up with a new exercise in “compassion,” we know from bitter experience that (a) their cost projections are vastly underestimated, and (b) the program, once set on its course, must and will by its own internal, perverted “moral” logic grow until it consumes all available revenue. The program’s seeds of its own destruction — and that of everything it touches — are inherent from the start.

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Texas, California, and the Tail of the Coyote

Being a fiscal policy person, I always point to California’s punitive state income tax as an example of bad policy and highlight the absence of any income tax in Texas to explain the success of that state.

But sometimes it’s just culture and attitude. Here’s a joke comparing the two states, but it’s based on something that actually happened in Texas.

CALIFORNIA: The Governor of  California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps  out, bites the Governor and attacks his dog.

1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects  upon the movie “Bambi” and then realizes he should stop; the coyote is  only doing what is natural.

2. He takes out his cell phone and calls animal control. Animal Control  captures the coyote and bills the State $1,500 testing it for diseases and $2,500  for relocating it.

3. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects  the dead dog and bills the State $2,000 for testing it for diseases.

4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends  $2,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his  bite wound bandaged.

5. The running trail gets shut down for  6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to  make sure the area is free of dangerous animals.

6. The Governor spends $500,000 in state funds to  implement a “coyote awareness” program for residents of the state.

7. The State Legislature spends $2 million  to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently  eradicate the  disease throughout the world.

8. The Governor’s security agent is  fired for not stopping the attack somehow and for letting the  Governor attempt to intervene.

9. Additional cost to State of California:  $175,000 to hire and train a new security agent with additional special  training re: the nature of coyotes.

10. PETA protests the coyote’s  relocation and files $5 Million suit against the State.

TEXAS: The Governor of Texas is  jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A Coyote jumps out, bites  the Governor’s leather boot, and attacks his dog.

1. The Governor shoots the coyote with his State-issued  pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP  hollow point cartridge.

2. The buzzards eat the dead coyote.

And that, boys and girls, is why California is  broke………..And, more importantly, why too much government  doesn’t work.

Government Waste

"Typically, U.S. [Government] programs lose 7% of their money to corruption, says the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.  Do the math, and that suggests $55 Billion of the $787 billion stimulus program is at risk. 'You can not throw that much money out that fast without having it abused,' says Senator Tom Cobern (R-Okla.). Bloomberg Businessweek, May 3rd 2010, page 29, "Tracking Stimulus Scamsters in Real Time." 

The above does not even count the overhead of having our money flow into the Federal Government and then back out to us and the States.  Think about it for every rebate, (housing, cash for clunkers, earned income credit, etc) that is issued we lose 7% just in fraud, plus overhead.