Federal Budget Lies, Distortions and Mismanagement

Dems First to Blink

The sequester, we're told, is automatic budget cuts which budget managers cannot control.  They are mandatory and deep and painful.

The truth is that the FAA budget, as if the congress actually passed a budget, increased 4% over last year.  That is correct, you read that right.  A 4% increase instead of an 8% increase, which was to be before the sequester took effect.  And now we learn that the FAA cannot function on 4% more money than last year and must furlough 47,000 employees.

This is going on all over the federal agencies and departments across this land.  Furloughs.  Temporarily taking days off without pay for many employees to avoid not paying them, and thus saving budget dollars which were, ahem, cut.

Mathematics learned in elementary school taught us that if A > B, then A > B.  This year the amount of money in your coffers to spend (A), is greater than the amount in your coffers last year (B), then you have more money, not less.  Therefore, your budget was not cut.

Academic Cesspools

Academic Cesspools - Walter Williams

Universities around this nation are less educational and more indoctrinating.  This column by Walter Williams details some of this.  There are countless examples of colleges and universities that have modified their curriculum to include fewer and fewer actual educational courses and more and more "warm and fuzzy, feel good" courses.  These new courses do not help a student by teaching critical thinking skills or fact-based information.  Rather they indoctrinate youth into thinking like the professors think, which is more liberal, progressive and socialist than ever before.

Random Political Thoughts

Gun rights are guaranteed in the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution.  Those rights should not be infringed upon.  We should tread lightly where the US Constitution is involved. 

President Obama says elections have consequences, then gets indignant when he loses a vote in the Senate.

The media needs to shape up.  Cover the story, report the facts.

When someone in the media says we should not jump to conclusions, be ready for them to do just that.

It should be a requirement that all federal laws from here on are written down in 10 pages or less.  Obamacare counted over 2200 pages of legislation, and now 15,000 new pages of regulations.  Bigger is not always better.

Following mass shootings in Aurora, Newtown and Phoenix we blamed guns.  following the Boston Marathon bombing, we blamed the bomber.  Make any sense?

Slowing the rate of spending is not the same as cutting spending.  Even though we sequestered money, spending this year will still exceed last year.  Spending did not get cut year over year.

Everything inside Washington DC is political.  Deal with it.

Fact Free Crusade

Fact Free Crusade by Thomas Sowell

Many people making arguments, pro or con, on various topics, including gun control legislation, never let facts get in their way.  If there were any study done which correlated fewer lives lost to few guns, don't you think they would cite such a study over and over again?

It's almost as if they expect you to believe that if you are shot with a .38 special you will not die, but if shot with an AR-15, with a magazine containing more than 7 bullets, you will surely die.  And so will dozens of people around you, even if that magazine only held 8 bullets.

Boston Bombing - Obama comments

My thoughts and prayers go out too those affected by the explosions in Boston. May God heal the wounds and give strength to all those taking care of the injured and working to solve the investigation

President Obama stated that we should not jump to conclusion ( ... The police acted stupidly ) and we will hold those accountable ( Benghazi).

Proportional Response

Proportional Response - Thomas Sowell

Fighting wars the way we have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan is no way ti win a war.  Gone are the days of shock and awe I suppose.  Allowing politicians to fight a war instead of trained military officers is a bad idea.

Proportional Reponse is a theory of retaliation with like tactics and weapons.  Not bringing a knife to a fist fight, or a gun to knife fight.  We should rarely if ever go to war.  But when we do go to war, we should fight to win, and worry about what comes next only after the fighting ends.  Defeating your enemy brings the best peace.  If you don't believe me, check out countries which have been solidly defeated and forced to surrender, such as Japan, after WWII.

Poverty soars to post-60s high | Human Events

Poverty soars to post-60s high | Human Events

The War on Poverty instituted by LBJ in the 1960's is an objective failure.  We have spent trillions of dollars to end poverty, only to expand it.  By any measure it has failed.

What he have done is encouraged the very lifestyle that is the opposite of that which leads to prosperity.  By approving of illegitimate children, abortion, divorce, and unwed parenting, we have devalued the family. 

By graduating from school, getting a job, marrying, and then having children, in that order, people are infinitely more likely to avoid poverty.  Is that what our current set of policies and cultural acceptance have gained us? 

"The only rational response to such failure is to try something completely different.  Evidently we are not allowed to talk about policies that would restore the American family, the great bulwark against poverty."