Ron, Rand Paul discuss broken government with Blitzer

Ron, Rand Paul discuss broken government with Blitzer
Posted By Steve Adcock On February 24, 2010 (10:44 am) In Voices and Choices

SOUTHERN ARIZONA – Small government Republicans Ron Paul and son Rand Paul discussed broken government with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer this week, arguing that the “government mechanism is broken because the government is broke”.

“By the time you go broke, the government is too big and inefficient,” Ron Paul said early in the interview.  ”You have to admit that you can’t pay the bills.”

Dr. Paul argued that with a 10% inflation rate, you’ve wiped off a trillion in national debt.

“Show me a government program that has ever come in under budget,” son Rand Paul said, responding to CBO data that suggested cutting waste, fraud and abuse may enable national health care to be paid for without adding to the United States’ running deficit.

Both Congressmen Paul and Kentucky Senatorial candidate Rand Paul recognize the severity of our government’s debt and refuse to believe that adding government programs will somehow fix what ails the American people, literally and figuratively.

“I would reject what the president is proposing [regarding health care], and we as Republicans need to articulate a version of what we would do,” Rand said.  ”When government sets the price for health care, the patient quits caring about the price, and there is no price competition.”

Regarding the War in Iraq, “It is not in our national security interest, and the sooner we end this, the better,” remarked Ron Paul in response to a question from Blitzer regarding disagreements between the father and son in terms of national security.

“The most important enumerated power of the federal government is to take care of our national security,” Rand said.  ”I will make them debate whether they declare war or not,” Paul continued.  ”It’s not enough to just say that our national security is threatened.”

 

‘Tea party’ in Mill Valley attracts more than 600; Obama backers demonstrate a few blocks away

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America: Resist Communism, Socialism and Marxism

Posted By J. D. Longstreet On March 9, 2010 (6:27 am) In Voices and Choices

Well, the BIG Push is on to ram ObamaCare through the Congress and down the throats of the American people.

Obama is jetting around the country holding pep rallies to try to gin up support for the “Bill from Hell” — Socialized Medicine. You should know these rallies include ONLY Obama supporters and ObamaCare supporters. The wild enthusiasm is staged for your benefit to, hopefully, give you the impression that ObamaCare is supported by the majority of Americans. The truth is – it is NOT.

These rallies are all propaganda. It’s “The BIG LIE” told over and over again just as the Nazis in Germany did to convince the people of an entire country they truly desired the socialism of the Nazi Party. I must tell you Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, would be proud of the Democratic Party in America today. The Obama Regime has taken a page from the leftist Nazis of the last century on how to brainwash an entire nation into believing a lie. A lie that, once accepted, will spell the absolute doom of America.

The Democratic Party, by itself, simply does not give a damn! They are interested in two things and two things only — and that is to maintain their hold on the government of the US and to ensure their reelection. They simply have no sympathy for what the American people truly want. Plus, THEY DON’T CARE WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT! All that counts is what they, the Democrats, want.

It is called “Command and Control.” A strong central government in charge of a “command and control economy” is their dream — and it is their goal. They intend to reach that goal no matter what — even if it means shredding the US Constitution.

Those of us on the right vowing to throw the Socialists and Marxists, masquerading as Democrats, out of the Congress this November had better watch our backs. The dems are quietly lining up the resistance to our movement and between now and November the right will come under attack, intensifying each day as the election draws nearer and nearer.

They are quietly conspiring with the less literate democrat voters and those who, for generations, have depended on the government welfare dole for their existence. Their intention is to flood the polls in November of 2010 to offset and overwhelm the anti-ObamaCare. These “wards of the federal government” will be flooding the polling places, everywhere in America, to dilute the opposition to ObamaCare and defeat the efforts to save the constitutional republic we know as America. Their intent is to create, once and for all, a Socialist/Communist America. And they may very well succeed!

For years those of us who have had the foresight to see the Socialized Medicine Bill for what it is, even though it is wrapped in the pretty package of ObamaCare, have worked tirelessly to expose it as a true Socialized Medicine Bill anchored in Marxism and Communism.

There are times when this scribe feels as though I am standing in front of a wall shouting the warning at the top of my lungs only to have it bounce back onto myself with little, if any, effect on the people whom the Bible describes as a people who have “stopped their ears.”

I must admit to weariness and fatigue and frustration, as the realization sets in that the masses of ObamaCare advocates, like lemmings, have chosen to follow their own Pied Piper — this time straight over a cliff and into a Marxist/Communist hell-like oblivion.

During this fight, I have gained a better insight into Noah’s dilemma. He preached over and over the warning that a deadly flood was coming and would wipe out every man, woman, and child – but to no avail. As the story goes every one was killed except for the handful aboard Noah’s Ark.

America is on the verge of collapse. The final step ensuring that collapse is the passage of ObamaCare.

 

TAM considers $10 rate hike

By Tim Omarzu
Marinscope Newspapers

Published: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:03 PM PST

Marin drivers may pay another $10 every time they register a vehicle, if a county agency goes for the extra fee and a majority of county voters approves it in November.

The Transportation Authority of Marin, or TAM, is considering seeking voters’ approval for a $10 vehicle license fee that would raise $2 million to $3 million annually.

“We’re considering putting it on the ballot. We haven’t decided for sure, yet,” said Diane Steinhauser, the executive director of TAM.

TAM has commissioned a $40,000 poll that’s under way now to see if Marin voters would back the fee, and the TAM board is expected to decide at its Feb. 25 meeting whether to put the measure on the November ballot.

The fee would require only a simple majority to pass — unlike many local taxes that require support from two-thirds of voters.

The millions raised by the $10-per-vehicle fee could be used for such things as funding school crossing guards and paying for senior citizens’ transport, Steinhauser said. The money would be spent on “green” projects that would encourage people to drive less, she said.

Public input would help decide exactly how the money would be spent, she said. “We have to go through a process to let everybody have some feedback.”

Once the purposes of the funding were spelled out, they would be included in the ballot language. And TAM would be audited regularly to ensure the money was being spent as intended, Steinhauser said.

The ballot language also would say how long the fee would stay in effect.

In order to get the fee on the November ballot, the TAM board has to do so by early August.

TAM is responsible for managing a variety of transportation projects and programs in Marin County, receiving federal, state, regional and local funds. TAM administers Measure A, the half-cent transportation sales tax in Marin County passed by voters in November 2004.

 

Seeing red as voters grow restless ahead of election

Read the Daily Breeze article here.

 

One judge challenged, two not, in Marin judicial election

Read the Marin IJ article here.

 

The New Wimpery: begging to be taxed – Garry Reed

Read the Libertarian News Examiner article here.

 

Busted budgets: states desperate for new taxes – Garry Reed

News & commentary from the liberterrain…

California, struggling with budget deficits, growing debt, and possible bankruptcy, has been seriously considering legalizing their $14 billion per year cash crop, marijuana.

A bill in the state’s Assembly would impose a $50 per ounce fee on legal sales, bringing in “nearly $1 billion a year” depending on which expert’s opinion gets quoted in which newspaper.

In Colorado, candy and soft drinks are legal but they’re exempt from the state sales tax.

The Centennial State, having already closed a $2.1 billion budget gap, faces a billion dollar shortfall in next year’s budget. The state’s politicians see a 2.9-percent “Twinkie Tax” on sweets as a way to sweeten the public pot. A bill to do just that passed the House Monday and, if approved by the Senate, is expected to raise “3.58 million this year and $17.9 in 2011.

In January, New York Governor David Paterson, staring a $7.4 billion deficit in the face, went looking for $1 billion in new taxes and fees even after carving out nearly $800 million from New York City and slashing other taxes.

A $1 tax hike is proposed for that old favorite of politicians everywhere, cigarettes, which will raise a pack to $3.75. Other proposals include a 1-cent per ounce soda tax, legalizing and taxing cage fighting, collecting more revenue from wine by allowing sales in grocery stores, and introducing 50 new speed cameras to catch and fine motorists as much as $100 (thereby belying the claim that speed cameras are justified purely as a “safety” concern.)

Commentary…

So what will happen if California and Colorado and New York and every other state with fiscal afflictions get the increases they want? History tells us that in a year or so they will each spend 150% of their new taxes, face yet another fiscal emergency, and go looking for more things to tax.

Giving more tax money to politicians is like giving a shot of José Cuervo to a stumbling blind slobbering drunk.

They could tax everything in the country with a pulse and never have enough money.

(Or, as libertarian columnist, editor, and author Vin Suprynowicz recently put it, “If you pay taxes, you’re ‘rich,’ so you should expect more taxes.”)

Anyone who believes that politicians and taxes can ever solve any problem anywhere is in greater need of rehab than the tax-addicted politicians or the alcoholics they mimic.

 

Dems Down on Defense of Marriage Act

Read the NBC article here.

 

Nancy Pelosi Still Democratic Party’s Cash Machine

Read the NBC article here.