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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

This showdown on Obamacare is a war between those who fight to enslave us under Marxism and genuine Americans who want to live in freedom.

Vladimir Lenin, an expert on Marxism, thinks so. A recent Communist Workers Party publication described Lenin’s position on the “value” of socialized healthcare as “… the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.”

American socialists have been fighting to enslave us since at least 1927 when socialist skunk Norman Thomas predicted America wouldn’t vote for socialism, but would adopt every aspect of socialism if it were presented under the banner of liberalism.

Obama’s health care scheme is presented as a plan to “help” the average American. Isn’t it being cloaked as humanitarianism, a way to “cover everybody and spread the wealth?”

Rank and file Democrats are the enemy of American freedoms

A February Gallup poll revealed that more than one of three (36%) of those living among us are too stupid to recognize the dangers of socialism and actually favor it. Not surprisingly 53% of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism.

This percentage of registered Democrats holds positive views of these elements of our national life: Capitalism just 53%; Big Business just 46%.

A very instructive 67% of registered Democrats had a positive view of the Federal government.

These are very scary numbers. They make it clear we have to keep fighting everybody and anybody in our way, regardless of party, to drive a stake through the heart of this disastrous bill.

If they win we lose. This is a totally zero sum contest.

If they win they will steal each day in the future lives our children and when the last piggy bank is smashed and the pennies are counted, they will tax us until we have nothing left to give.

The future of America is on the line. If we fail to act we will die as a people and not be worthy of calling ourselves Americans.

Sources:

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/vladimir-lenin-socialized-medicine-is-the-keystone-to-the-arch-of-the-socialist-state/

http://www.gallup.com/poll/125645/socialism-viewed-positively-americans.aspx

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 21

This day in history March 11
2004: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid Spain killed 191 people and chasing the Spanish out of Iraq thereby providing Islamist terrorists with a big victory.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

This has got to be child abuse. A special education student running the schools?

Detriot school board president Otis Mathis can’t write in English. The man charged with educating the last 90,000 school kids left in the disappearing city can’t express himself in a simple Email.

Need proof?

Grab a red pencil and read this recent Email written by Mr. Mathis.
“If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.”

His acknowledgement of difficulty composing a clearly written English paragraph is an understatement.

“[H]is communication issues.”

Mathis who was placed in a special education program in the fourth grade is a great example of Detroit’s refusal to recognize reality. Last January he was elected president of the school board by a margin of 10 to 1 over a University of Michigan academic officer.

That his graduation from Wayne State University was held up for TEN years because he couldn’t pass the required English proficiency test and had a 1.8 gpa in high school meant nothing. Mathis shouldn’t be able to teach a third grade class, let alone become the president of an entire school system. This outrage wouldn’t be tolerated anywhere else in America.

Damned either way

His colleagues call Mathis a good guy whose leadership skills are more important than his lack of qualifications. Nevertheless, herein lays the problem of trying to fix the Detroit school system. Anyone bright enough to be able to do the job is too bright to take the job. Since somebody – anybody- must be in the slot, for Detroit a former special education student will do.

Another Email
“Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row’s, and who is the watch dog?”

When asked if he can read, a question no one would even think of asking the head of any other American school system, Mathis answered, “Yes, I can read. I’m capable of reading a lot of information and regurgitation…”

Today Detroit’s former City Council President Monica Conyers, wife of Congressman John Conyers, will be sentenced in federal court on her conviction for selling her vote on a city contract agreement. It’s the way things are done in Detroit. It’s the reason Detroit will not survive no matter how much the media Democrats and other liberals try to make believe it will.

What do you plan to do to save America from Obama’s Marxists?

Source:

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100304/OPINION03/3040437/

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 19

This day in history March 10
1804: The Louisiana Purchase which formally transferred the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States is signed and executed at a ceremony in St. Louis.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

The wild uncontrolled extremes of Rahm Emanuel’s efforts to ram through Obama’s Marxist health care bill seem to have no limits. Threatening Eric Massa even while both men where nude in a House gym shower room wasn’t too much for the maniacal Emanuel.
Common sense dictates that Congress would not have to be threatened to vote for a bill their constituents loved and wanted.

Massa of course is an unprincipled moron who originally voted No because the bill wasn’t Leftist enough, but in the world of real America this bill is recognized as the dung pile it is.

Here’s a refresher on what stinks about it, and why we have to fight it with all our strength.

A government committee will decide what treatments we receive. P30 P42

Our healthcare will be rationed because Americans now privately insured will be forced into Obama’s scheme. P29 P85

Illegals will receive coverage and we will pay for them.P50 P170

Obama will have access to ALL of our financial records. P58 P59

Doctors pay will be dictated regardless of specialty. Brain surgeons and dermatologists will get the same paycheck. P127 P241

Forced governmental home visits P568

Rationing of care for certain cancers P272

Nazi style eugenics -rationing of medical services for “special needs” Americans P345

Obama’s health care commissars will decide when we have lived long enough. P429

Obama will have his government stooge doctors decide what our end of life care will be and how much care we will receive. P430

“Non-profit” Community-Based Home Medical Services ( think skunks like ACORN) will provide us with medical care. P469

Obama will be sitting at our kitchen tables and insert himself into our marriages because this bill will fund Marriage and Family therapy. P489

Mentally illness treatments will be rationed. P494 through 498.

The Chicago way

How many other Democrats Rahm Emanuel can threaten into a yes vote remains to be seen, but remember the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the necessary legislation at 9:10 PM on July 31, 2009 during the very last hours of the House session before its summer recess.

That vote came just days after Arkansas Democrat Mike Ross, the Blue Dog leader, flatly stated he would not ask his members to vote for the package without changes. He boasted his Blue Dogs were a majority of the Committee and therefore the whole thing would die when his Committee voted on it if there were no changes. There were no changes but they voted for it anyway. If those Blue Dogs had been given something or promised something such facts would have leaked out long ago. It’s obvious Ross and his members were threatened to force them to change their vote.

This is what our American freedoms have deteriorated to under Barack Obama and his Chicago thugs. This is why we have to take away his power by kicking out Reid and Pelosi’s robots in November.

It’s time to stand and be counted because the life of our country is on the line. It’s time to be worthy of the American freedoms those before us fought for and died for.

Sources:

http://www.twoorthree.net/2009/12/whats-wrong-with-the-senate-health-care-bill-omfg.html

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/health-care/2009/07/

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 19

This day in history March 9
1989: A Machinists union strike forces financially troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy which eventually killed it. All of the strikers lost their job.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

The contrast between Texas and California is so stark as to question the very possibility of the Golden State ever returning to balanced budget prosperity.

Liberal strongholds in San Francisco and Los Angeles have provided Democrats with the Legislative punch to gain a strangle hold on California’s governmental operations.

The far Left nature of both of these cities has led to the State’s complete capitulation to its public employees unions. The incestuous relationship these unions have with Sacramento Democrats has produced a “taxpayer be damned” attitude that will make curbing the costs of governing California virtually impossible.

Trading taxpayers for tax burners

The Census Bureau estimates that since 2000 more than 1.5 million taxpaying Californians have run away. This loss coupled with the coinciding arrival of a like number of tax money burning immigrants (legal and illegal) means California is headed toward becoming the first failed American state.

Texas: low taxes growing prosperity

Texas on the other hand has low taxes no state income tax and a growing economy to show for it.

Texas calls it’s Legislature together for just one 90 day session every two years. It’s almost nonexistent public employee union members work FOR the State of Texas. The State of Texas does NOT work for them.

Texans get genuine service from their civil servants. While its teachers are paid less than California’s teachers, Texas students score higher on standardized tests.

People across the country are moving into Texas yet its unemployment rate is lower than the national average. California’s unemployment is substantially higher.

Because of its pro-business atmosphere so many people will have moved into Texas that it’s on track to gain four new Congressional Districts all of which will likely be new Republican seats.

Texas is thriving; California is dying: Liberalism kills conservatism builds.

The coming showdown

November’s elections will pit hard core Leftists who want to model America on California against conservatives who want to spread the Texas formula across the country.

The California experiment is over. It was a crashing failure. Letting unions and Marxists run a state, especially the size of California has proved not only disastrous to Californians but a grave danger to the rest of us. When it goes under, California will pull large portions of the national economy with it.

When you vote for your next Congressman remember Liberals did this to us. Their deadly policies have destroyed state and city economies and made failure the only outcome possible for California. Remember who brought us to this point.

Doing nothing is not an option. Stand on your feet and fight or kneel on your knees and serve Obama. It’s your decision.

Be worthy of all the sacrifices made for your freedoms. The time for standing up is coming soon.

Sources:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Low-tax-Texas-beats-big-government-California-86681467.html

http://www.newser.com/story/82605/top-cities-beating-the-recession.html

http://www.newgeography.com/content/001448-the-failed-state-california-the-changing-landscape-america

This day in history March 8
1917 – The Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at –17

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By Suzanne Eovaldi

“Did you close Chrysler Dealers who were on Republican donor lists?” I asked Obama’s newly appointed car czar Steven Rattner’s private phone line answering device last May 28. No one returned my call.

Even though Rattner is long gone, we need to remember of how American owners of private property were stripped of their legal right of possession and lawful title by a blatant power grab carried out by a far left Democrat White House.

Bill Wallace, owner of the Ft. Pierce Florida Chrysler Jeep dealership ordered closed, opened his files and his heart to me. While years of teaching men gave me an understanding how men guard their emotions and try to reveal neither anger nor elation, the abject pain of what was done to him appeared as his eyes spoke over his voice.
A warning redness, an ever deepening pool of pain in this man’s eyes, caused by his own government, made me a judge’s daughter realize an unconscionable and illegal wrong had been committed.

“The new guy wins everything; the old guy loses everything,” Wallace said, as his posture slumped from the weight of losing his family’s 70 year old business. He told me what was most galling was that his private property had been taken away and no one paid him a penny for the dealership that represented his life’s work. Wallace then reminded me this was being played out 789 times all across America, a country founded on private property ownership.

Getting even with Republicans?

Soon after the Chrysler closings were announced last year bloggers began checking 2008 election donor lists and developed evidence pointing to a preponderance of Republican leaning Chrysler dealer owners among the “closed” list. Of course the media largely ignored this data, but facts are sticky nettlesome things.

Another closed down Chrysler dealership owner, Long Island Jeep dealer Jim Anderer was visibly moved when he appeared on the Neil Cavuto Fox News show. “They never explained to me,” he said. He said if it were true that closed Chrysler Dealers donated more to Republicans than to Democrats, then. . .”that’s insanity. . .a big scandal. This story is so big, bigger than other political scandals,” he said.

Could it be true?

Were the dealerships ordered closed by Obama’s car czar those who donated to the GOP in the 2008 elections?

I contacted closed dealers in Miami and Melbourne. Neither wanted to talk, but a poignant letter written by Dealer George Joseph, which appeared on prisonplanet.com., said it all. “My family bought and paid for this franchise 35 years ago,” he said. He was not given compensation for 125 vehicles, Dodge parts, loss of warranty service, destruction of vendor dealer orders and contracts, nor an ability to sell his new cars as new or remuneration for a mandated multimillion dollar mortgaged renovation.

Bill Wallace also added that because the fired dealers’ means of earning a living were taken away by the U.S. government, they had no way of holding onto the only thing they had left, their real estate.

As we enter the 2010 election cycle, we must never forget that the Chrysler theft of private property was the DEW line for everything else that has happened to us and to our country since that cold January day in 2009.

The question is: Do we love America more than Obama and the Marists in Congress hate our country? If so each of us must stand up and fight to save of liberties.

Suzanne Eovaldi is a retired reporter and Journalism School Professor from the Chicago area now living in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 17

This day in history March 7
1850: Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the “Compromise of 1850” in order to prevent a Civil War. It worked for 12 years.

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By Bruce Karlson

There has been unending hand wringing about teen drug use, pregnancy, and dismal academic performance. As a garnish, we are also in the midst of an epidemic of teen obesity. There have been unending government programs to “combat” these problems. Some of them may have helped temporarily but most are run by pimps that simply enjoy slopping at the public trough. All of the aforementioned has been abetted by government, particularly the Federal Government.

Divorce is a major contributor to this frightening mess as is societal acceptance of out of wedlock births. Consistent with the latter, it is now considered mean spirited and politically incorrect to identify children of unwed parent(s) as bastards. The modern parlance no longer countenances calling unpleasant things what they are. Until recently divorce was frowned upon by Americans and was therefore rare. Those who attended government schools in the fifties and early sixties will strain to remember more than one or two classmates with divorced parents. Now that number will approach half. Our nation’s “youth problems” are in lock step.

Parents that came of age in the “just do it” 60s and 70s found it convenient to “just do it” rather than accept the responsibility of raising their children. They thought that drug use was peachy and were disinclined to be as authoritarian as they remembered their parents. That required the dreaded “judgment.” It was not often mentioned, but that disinclination was simply a convenient abdication of responsibility.

In America we get the government that we deserve. We could have the government that we want or need, but that might interfere with the “pursuit of (temporary) happiness” and require taking a decision. The government we deserve created the welfare state and declared the previously serious marriage contract to be an inconvenience, easily mitigated. The results surround us.

Most parents want Johnnie to read, eat his vegetables, do well in school, and stay out of trouble. Meanwhile, they are never seen reading anything but the sports’ page, defer all education decisions to government bureaucrats, eat junk food, and give almost half of their earnings to their oppressors. A staggering number never shook their drug habits and routinely smoke weed or worse. Perhaps the drug induced euphoria convinces them that their children do not notice.

While all will wax poetic about how important their children are, most Moms have full time jobs. They might claim the income is needed, but never considered the possibility of living in a smaller house, driving one car, or eating out less often. After child care, an uptick in the tax bracket, clothes, etc, the extra few dollars are rarely worth the disruption and delegation of parental supervisory responsibility. But then, Mom is fulfilled.

Essentially, many parents that came of age in the 60s or later never grew up. They remained married long enough to have children who were often indulged but rarely “parented.” Insofar as these “adults” did not want to be accused of being judgmental, bastard children, drug use, declining personal responsibility, and eroding educational expectations were simply accepted.

The least financially advantaged, particularly inner city minorities, have suffered the most with out of wedlock births at 70%, gang banging, rampant drug use, and even worse schools. As long as they remain in the same pattern they and their children are condemned – the rest of us are not far behind.

Have you stopped to think about how important getting involved in the fight for our liberties is? What do you plan to do about your conclusions?

About Bruce Karlson: Born New Jersey, enlisted in the Navy 1960, discharged in 1964, Kean College – BA, Fordham University – MBA. Sold computers in NYC’s financial district, retired 1992. Divorced, two high school aged children. Interests include bridge, history, politics and cooking.

This day in History March 6:
1857: The Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott case slaves were not citizens. The Supreme Court has often been very wrong.

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at- 14

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Remember last August when the British twisted the arms of Scottish authorities to force the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, one of the bastards who blew Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky over Lockerbie Scotland killing 270 people?

Remember we were told by United Kingdom representatives he was being released for “humanitarian reasons” so he could go home to his beloved Libya and die in about three months from the “terminal prostate cancer” he was suffering from?

Remember the pictures of this bum being carried on to a plane looking like a concentration camp survivor?

Finally do you remember how the terrorist swine seemed so much better when he got off the plane to a hero’s welcome?

It now looks like it was all a put up job by the British to close an oil deal with Qaddafi, a thug who recently jump started his career as a player in the terrorist world after twenty year of hiding in the hole Ronald Reagan bombed him into.

A Lourdes miracle in Libya?

Despite having a prognosis of death by December, this creep is not only still alive but living comfortably and no longer even taking formal treatments – if he ever was – for his “terminal illness.” His overjoyed father explains the apparent miracle by pointing to “good genes, ‘positive thinking’ and alternative medicines.”

Even Qaddafi’s son called it what it was

Last summer when this whole charade was unfolding Qaddafi’s son Blah Blah ( or something) El Qaddafi said it was “obvious” the chain of events that freed this Islamist skunk was a quid pro quo to free him in return for Libyan oil. The fact that he spent just eight years in prison, eleven days per victim, means nothing to our back stabbing friends across the Atlantic.

Swiss bank account

Abdelbaset, the only person ever convicted in the Lockerbie attack, had 2 million British Pounds, (more than $3 million) waiting for him in a Swiss bank account. He receives 24 hour nursing and is happy to have friends and well wishers drop by for tea and cakes.

Brown the double dealer

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made the decision to order this release after negotiations between Qaddafi and BP (British Petroleum) stalled. Soon after Brown got involved the deal was made.

In the overly polite British way of speaking the affair was described as being motivated by “commercial considerations.” So now we know the “commercial” value of 270 people when it comes to a trade for oil.

What did you do to be worthy of your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?

Sources:

http://prostatecancer.about.com/b/2009/08/26/lockerbie-bomber-released-because-of-terminal-prostate-cancer.htm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6814939.ece

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254142/Lockerbie-bomber-Abdelbaset-Ali-Mohamed-al-Megrahi-beat-cancer-say-family.html

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 14

This day in history March 5
In 1933, in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

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By Fritz Wenzel

The economic downturn has affected men much more than women who now represent a majority of the workforce. Many more men than women have been laid off, and the data indicates they are very anxious about this.

As Newton’s Third Law says: every action results in an equal and opposite reaction, the stage is now set for the reaction.

It may well come in November’s General Elections.

My survey work, nationally, statewide, and in local political jurisdictions, is showing white men are much more likely to look more negatively toward the federal government and more favorably toward the Tea Party movement. Washington’s failure to heed the concerns of its constituents is having its effect.

Forget the Angry White Male. Today, it’s the Anxious White Male.

A recent national Wenzel Strategies telephone survey, commissioned by WorldNetDaily.com, showed men lead 50/38 among those who have a “very positive” view of the Tea Party movement.

Very Strong “index rating”

An index rating generated by subtracting those who are “very negative” toward the Tea Party movement from those with a “very positive” opinion, shows men are much more positively disposed toward the ideals of the “Tea Partiers.” Among women, the index is +14 percentage points, for men it’s +29 points.
Index ratings measure intensity of emotion, and in politics, intensity, both positive and negative, equates to motivation that gets people to the polls.

Congress in serious trouble

When our poll of likely voters asked whether they thought Congress was doing a good or a bad job, 51% of women, but 69% of men said Congress was doing a “poor” job.

While Obama’s job approval rating in my latest national polling is 45%, just 12% give Congress positive job marks. Trouble with anxious men can bring incumbent Democrats big trouble in November.

Anger at Republicans as well

This is particularly troubling for Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives, because they all must stand for re–election this fall. Barack Obama has more than two years to repair whatever damage has been done to his image over the past year or so.

The Congressional job approval numbers have not been this bad since just after the Democratic Party takeover of Congress in 2007. In June of that year, their job approval dipped into the single digits.

But don’t take this drop in ratings for Congress in general to mean voters see things as all the fault of Democrats. It is not. This near–record low number is a combination of the dissatisfaction with the Democratic leadership over the past year, mixed with a lingering dissatisfaction with the GOP performance during both their 12 years in power and their early flaccid performance as a minority.
Americans have still not forgiven the Republicans, and they must prove themselves again this fall – or risk a long, dark future in the political wilderness.

What did you do to be worthy of your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?

Fritz Wenzel is President of Wenzel Strategies, a public opinion research and communications firm based in Columbus, Ohio. Wenzel Strategies conducts polling and analysis that matches or exceeds industry standards followed by such firms as Rasmussen Reports, Zogby International, and the Gallup Organization. Fritz Wenzel is an award–winning journalist with 15 years experience in the research industry.

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 14

This day in history March 4

1994 Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

In a stunning move designed to combat the tide of identity thieves and illegal aliens who are sneaking into our country, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has passed a bill invalidating all Puerto Rican birth certificates issued before July 1, 2010.

The emergency nature of this extreme measure brings to light the fact that the Island’s birth certificate system has suffered a major penetration of its security barriers over the past several years.
Puerto Rican officials estimate as many as 1.36 million people of Puerto Rican decent living across the country now have invalid birth certificates and big problems because of the rampant identity theft that has plagued the Island in recent years.

Because people born in Puerto Rico are automatically American citizens, using a stolen birth certificate falsely indicating it had been “issued” on the Island provides clear sailing into mainland America and all that represents. The potential for security threats to all of America are mind boggling.

How this came to light

Last March Puerto Rican law enforcement authorities carried out a raid that broke up a criminal gang specializing in changing blank stolen birth certificate into fraudulent documents to be used to secure any number of “legitimate” forms of identification.
Puerto Ricans residents are regularly asked to produce birth certificates for several different purposes ranging from school registration to enrollment in sports leagues. Because of this tradition many copies of many people’s birth certificates are floating around and subject to misuse.

Incredibly 40 % of the identity fraud in America involves Puerto Rican birth certificates according the State Department. Fake certificates with Hispanic sounding names can fetch $10,000 on the black market.

Unfortunately neither the federal nor Puerto Rican governments has made any effort to warn people living in the mainland about the ramifications of this bill.

Why there have been no public announcements with the summer travel season just three months away is a mystery. What is clear is that Puerto Rico has struck a major blow for our side in our ongoing battle to keep our borders and our economy secure.

What did you do to be worthy of your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?

Sources:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/27/national/w004120S43.DTL

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/27/national/w004120S43.DTL#ixzz0h2gwB3NN

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at –13

This day in history March 3
1938: Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Question: What’s the new significance of red white and blue?

Answer: The Democrat controlled BLUE states are hemorrhaging RED ink and bleeding tax payers WHITE.

Between 2004 and 2008 two things happened in New Jersey. It got Bluer and its tax base got smaller. An estimated $70 billion worth of taxable wealth and another $2 billion in charitable giving has run out of the state.

New Jersey’s Chamber of Commerce traces the start of the wealth exodus directly to 2004 Democrat crafted tax increases on the so-called “wealthy.”

In recent years Maryland has imposed a Millionaire’s Tax with similar results. In the span of one year its number of “millionaires” dropped by 30% causing as loss of millions of tax dollars.

Because of the State and City of New York’s crushing taxes, since 2000, New York State has experienced the largest outward migration in the country. New York City lost 1.1 million taxpayers who made 13 % more than those who have taken their places.

Forbes report

A new Forbes magazine report lists the states in the worst financial condition and those in the best condition. Each of the former, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, California and New Jersey are Democrat Blue States and three of the five in the latter group Utah Nebraska and Texas are Republican states.

Forbes asks and answers the obvious question: Why?

The cause can be directly traced to the relative strength of unions and the “something for nothing” attitude that comes along with them. Because of the large union presence in these states, especially in their state and local governments, the pension liabilities they have to contend with kill their bond ratings. The healthy young and productive people in these deep Blue States run away and leave old Greedy Democrats with their hands out.

“Solidly Democrat”

A Gallup poll identifies ten of the worse twenty three states as having a Democrat registration edge of ten or more percent. And calls them “solidly Democrat.”

Seven of the ten most Republican states rank in the upper 25 in financial health.

“Per person debt” and “per person share of unfunded pension obligations” tell the story of how states are actually doing. Utah rates best with “only” $7,272 per citizen in unfunded pension liabilities. By contrast Illinois has saddled its citizens with a $17,230 unfunded pension obligation. That’s each citizens bill!
One can almost hear the moving vans starting up in “The Land of Lincoln” and the rest of the Blue States. The future will see full-fledged people drains from Democrat states.

What did you do to be worthy of your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?

Sources:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/25/democratic-states-bad-financial-shape-personal-finance-blue_print.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/83619692.html

http://maryland-politics.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-many-millionaires-have-left.html

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/item_qb4pItQ71UXIc0i6cd3UpK#ixzz0gs5q8XFM

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at –12

This day in history March 2

1877: Just two days before Inauguration Day, the Congress declared Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election held November 7, 1876 in which Democrat Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote, but not the Electoral College vote.

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