Americans hate the Federal Government more than ever

[Joe Miner]

Everyone is pissed at the Federal government because they have their hands in everything. They impose one rule and expect it to work for everyone. Just not possible. If the federal government was reduced to the limits imposed by the Constitution, the government would be small, and would not interfere with issues it shouldnt. The federal budget would be balanced, and most of Americas social problems would be solved, because most of them have resulted from federal intervention.

 

The social issues were meant to be dealt with at the state level. If this had been adhered to you would not have the polarity we have in politics. Abortion, Drugs, Gay Marriage, all would be at the state level. This allows like minded people to live in the same geographic area. Then when considering the Federal government, these very individual states can find a lot of common ground.

 

Our founding fathers were geniuses, we are all lemmings.

I'm pissed because of the public education system they've put you through.

[Jobu]

I'm pissed because of the public education system they've put you through

 

Care to elaborate or tell me why I am wrong? Or are you a liberal?

[DC Tom]

 

Care to elaborate or tell me why I am wrong?

 

Because you're an idiot.

 

 

Or are you a liberal?

 

Liberal? Hell, he's practically a Maoist.

[Jobu]

 

Because you're an idiot.

 

 

 

Liberal? Hell, he's practically a Maoist.

 

Excellent insight as usual. Go empty your colostomy bag old man.

 

Practically a Maoist explains a lot.

[Chef Jim]

I'm not sure where this belongs and it doesn't deserve it's on thread so I'll stick it here. How in the hell can people get fair representation when your US Senator is stepping down and the two people you have to choose from to replace them are both from the same party? WTF??

[Jobu]

I'm not sure where this belongs and it doesn't deserve it's on thread so I'll stick it here. How in the hell can people get fair representation when your US Senator is stepping down and the two people you have to choose from to replace them are both from the same party? WTF??

 

Run yourself big man.

[IDBillzFan]

I'm not sure where this belongs and it doesn't deserve it's on thread so I'll stick it here. How in the hell can people get fair representation when your US Senator is stepping down and the two people you have to choose from to replace them are both from the same party? WTF??

 

Assuming you're talking about Kamala Harris vs. Loretta Sanchez, you don't have to worry about that. Kamala will easily win regardless of who she's running against.

 

The minute she invaded David Delaiden's home and confiscated all the footage he had on Planned Parenthood's baby parts for sale gig, she was immediately the heir apparent.

[Chef Jim]

 

Run yourself big man.

Oh I see you're going to be a great addition to this place.

 

Assuming you're talking about Kamala Harris vs. Loretta Sanchez, you don't have to worry about that. Kamala will easily win regardless of who she's running against.

 

The minute she invaded David Delaiden's home and confiscated all the footage he had on Planned Parenthood's baby parts for sale gig, she was immediately the heir apparent.

Oh no doubt about Harris winning if for no other reason other than Sanchez is bat shiit crazy. But what system gives you only one party to choose from when you have only two representatives to begin with?

[IDBillzFan]

But what system gives you only one party to choose from when you have only two representatives to begin with?

 

The one you find in Mexifornia!

 

Frankly, I find it refreshing. Why even bother to put a GOP person to fight for a seat that has been occupied by Barbara Boxer since 1842?

 

No way anyone other than a hand-picked Dem gets that seat, so save your money and find another seat that's more vulnerable.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

Three countries? Iraq, Libya...?

 

Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria...

[B-Man]

IN NORTH CAROLINA: Do You Think Elections Are Rigged?

 

Money quotes:

 

Here in North Carolina, Civitas helped expose a strange situation in which a

State Board of Elections employee, Dr. E. Lee Cooley, was teaching the public and political operatives

how to commit voter fraud

. It may be an understatement to say that we were alarmed to learn that at least one person in the State Board of Elections, the department that oversees all elections in North Carolina, was telling people that it was okay to commit voter fraud and actually instructing them how to do so by voting other people’s ballots.

 

 

 

And

 

Meanwhile, even as the SBE discussed the Cooley situation,

another SBE employee sent instructions

to all 100 counties to d

isregard the state law that requires signatures on voter registration forms. V

eronica Degraffenreid, the SBE’s election preparation and support manager, ignored the statute that requires a signature as part of the registration process, including changes in voter registration.

 

 

[B-Man]

Philly.com reported:

 

Pennsylvania state police have raided a Delaware County political field office seeking evidence of possible voter-registration fraud, according to court records.

 

In a warrant filed late last week in County Court, investigators said they were seeking documents, financial information, and lists of employees at the Norwood office of FieldWorks LLC, a national organization that often does street work for Democrats, records show.

The warrant did not specify the nature of the probe, but said agents also were looking for “templates . . . utilized to construct fraudulent voter registration forms” and “completed voter registration forms containing same or similar identifying information of individuals on multiple forms.”

[B-Man]

For something that doesn’t happen it sure seems to happen enough

 

More stolen, forged ballots discovered in Florida

 

FTA:

 

Local officials are only reporting five total instances of forged ballots, but as we discuss every single time this subject arises, we have no idea what the actual rate of voter fraud is. Did we learn of these forgeries because the police are working diligently with election officials to monitor and verify all voting activity? No, we did not. We only know about it because one couple became alarmed when they didn’t receive their ballots and contacted the county to complain. Some more checking turned up three more people with the same complaint.

[B-Man]

Democrats and Teachers’ Union Fight Against Scholarships for Poor Floridians
by Paul Crookston

 

A minister in central Florida is striking back at the state’s teachers’ unions for their dogged attacks on a school tax-credit scholarship that affords tens of thousands of low-income families a choice of schools for their kids.

 

In an Orlando Sentinel column, Reverend R. B. Holmes said that it is “a matter of fundamental decency” to allow parents to choose where their kids are educated, and lambasted the Florida Education Association (FEA) for trying to force students back into failing public schools. Florida’s education system includes many school-choice options, yet the teachers’ union has targeted the tax-credit scholarship, which primarily assists families with low incomes. (The average participating household is only 4.4 percent above the poverty line, and minority and single-parent households make up a majority of participants.)

 

“Fundamental decency” is one thing. But Holmes’ column also makes an emphatic legal argument: The FEA has no standing to sue. To provide background, in 2015 a judge promptly dismissed the union’s suit, and organizations such as the Florida School Boards Association, the Florida Association of School Administrators, and the Florida Parent-Teacher Association have subsequently withdrawn from it. That has not stopped the union, however, from pursuing the scurrilous lawsuit all the way to the state Supreme Court.

 

The complaint against the program is the ubiquitous claim that money is “drained” from public schools. It’s an especially preposterous argument in this case, since the tax-credit scholarships are actually funded by corporate contributions. Because they are funded by tax-credits, the government does not subsidize scholarships to certain schools through the program, yet opponents still call them “vouchers” to create the sense that they are costing Floridians money. The FEA also claims that since the tax-credit scholarships can go toward religious schools, the program violates the Florida Constitution’s separation of church and state.

 

In reality, the union doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Since the costs of the tax credits do not exceed the costs of educating a student in a public school, families who use these scholarships save the state money. And if the union were to win the case, it would create an untenably large influx of students back into failing public schools. (To take one example, Orange County would have to reabsorb about 9,000 students who currently use tax-credit scholarships, when the reason those students left in the first place was that the schools could not provide for them.) But cracks in the public-school monopoly reduce the power of teachers’ unions as they increase the power of families. So the FEA fights on.

 

Meanwhile, Holmes asks a question that should trouble the conscience of anyone who cares about improving the lives of low-income parents and their kids: “All these poor parents want is the power to do what families of means do every day — the power to find the best school for their children. Why would anybody deny them?” The answer, as it tends to be in such cases, is that the only thing that matters to the union is keeping power.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442461/florida-teachers-union-sues-over-poor-families-scholarships

[Nanker]

Screw them. If we let them leave the public schools, then there won't be a big need for unionized teachers and the kids will be denied a good public edminucation.

THINK OF THE TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND SUPERINTENDENTS!!![/progressives]

[B-Man]

Bookends to a Disastrous Presidency

Original Article

 

To watch Barack Obama's pathetic final non-victory lap around the world this past week, one can't help but recall his stomach-churning "Apologize for America Tour" at the start of his administration. You'll recall that in April 2009, he went to Europe, which we sacrificed tens of thousands of American lives to liberate 70-plus years ago, and informed Europeans that America "has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" of Europe.

 

Last week, Mr. Obama could not resist the urge to dis his country once again, telling the "global community," again from a foreign shore, that in the age of the internet, nationalism (read: Donald Trump) is rearing its ugly head. "Faced with this new reality where cultures clash, it's inevitable that some will seek a comfort in nationalism or tribe or ethnicity or sect," he informed us from Athens. He reassured his audience that "American democracy is bigger than any one person." (Wink, wink, Donald.) Fittingly, he then went on to tour the ruins of ancient Greece, before flying off to Berlin to cry on the shoulder of his globalist soul mate, Angela Merkel, another leader looking at a potential uprising by her constituency, frightened by her insane immigration policies.

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/bookends_to_a_disastrous_presidency.html#ixzz4R21jDlaN

 

 

[Nanker]

I wouldn't characterize it as "Barack Obama's pathetic final non-victory lap around the world."

I'd call it his "Presidential Participation Trophy Tour."

[B-Man]

Obama Admin Rushes To Pass At Least 98 New Regulations

 

 

The Obama administration’s agencies are in a frenzy of activity as they push new regulations before Obama leaves office in January. Republicans, however, are warning against such activity, saying that they will overturn them via the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

 

Politico reports:

[Nanker]

From the B-Man's linky:

 

"One powerful weapon at Republicans’ disposal is the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law that essentially allows lawmakers and the president to impose a death penalty on regulations they oppose. Come January, Congress can use the law to repeal any rule that an agency finished after this past May 30, using simple-majority votes — and afterward, agencies will be forbidden to enact any regulation that is 'substantially the same'."

[B-Man]

TRANSPARENCY: Obama’s Pentagon Suppresses Study Finding $125 Billion in Wasteful Spending.

That’s $125 billion annually.

President Barack Obama’s Pentagon discredited and suppressed an internal probe that uncovered $125 billion in wasteful spending on the enormous administrative operations primarily ran by civilians and contractors.

 

The money could have been reinvested in payment for troops, weapons, and renovating the aging nuclear arsenal, the Washington Post (WaPo) has learned.

 

The Defense Business Board produced the study in January 2015 by a federal advisory panel of corporate executives, in coordination with consultants from McKinsey and Company.