The Infiltration Of The Republican Brotherhood

The five House Republican McCarthy-ists who alleged the Obama administration had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood have refused to back down, despite criticism from members of their own party.

Being the self-righteous douche-bags they are- this comes as no surprise.

Reps. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Tom Rooney (R-FL) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) blamed the media for unfairly focusing on Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin. The three Republicans, along with Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX), sent letters to five inspectors general last month calling on them to investigate activities that appeared to be the result of influence by the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist group.
“I regret that Mrs. Abedin has become the media focus of this story, because the intention of the letters was to bring greater attention to a legitimate national security risk,” Rooney explained..

The five Republicans said Abedin should be investigated because she “has three family members - her late father,( Dead for over 30 years) her mother, and her brother were connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations.” They accused the State Department of engaging in activities that “have been enormously favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood and its interests.”

Republicans like House Speaker John Boehner, Arizona Sen. John McCain, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Bachmann campaign manager Ed Rollins have all condemned the allegations targeting Abedin.

The five Republicans also called for investigations targeting other Muslim members of the Obama administration. They accused the Pentagon of “submission” to Islam in Afghanistan for apologizing for the destruction of Qu’rans and avoiding the display of non-Muslim religious symbols. The five Republicans chastised the Defense Department’s Counter-Insurgency strategy for “restrictive rules of engagement that, among other things, subordinate force protection to minimizing civilian causalities.” Which means it's better to kill countless innocents, as long as you get one bad guy.

Their paranoid allegations rely heavily on “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within,” a ten-part video course produced by the Center for Security Policy. The organization was founded by anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist nut-job Frank Gaffney, who has also accused the Conservative Political Action Conference of being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood through anti-tax activist Grover Norquist.

When do they start investigating the Christian infiltration of our political system?

I hear crickets.....

The Republican Tea-Party Brotherhood seems much more dangerous than any Muslim Brotherhood organization could ever be, because these folks are drunk on power, and have twisted the Constitution into an Orwellian knot, where "freedom means slavery" and spreading fear, becomes their only means to hold onto the countless idiots who still support them.

Joe McCarthy would be proud.

ickenittle

Bang there goes..

As part of the continuing race to the financial bottom, Compton California is neck-and-neck with Montebello for the rush to bankruptcy, with Victorville running a close third.

Compton, Calif. will be the fourth city in the Golden State to seek bankruptcy protection.

At a city council meeting Tuesday, officials announced that Compton is set to run out of funds by Sept. 1. Compton, which has only 93,000 residents, faces a deficit of $43 million after having depleted a $22 million reserve.

"I have $3 million in the bank and $5 million in warrants due in the next 10 to 12 days," said city treasurer Doug Sanders during the live-streamed city council meeting. "By then, the council will have a decision to make: don't pay the bonds, default on them, or have a serious talk about bankruptcy.

Standard & Poor's put Compton's revenue bonds on a negative credit watch last Friday, citing concern over allegations of "abuse of public moneys" and fraud, reports the Los Angeles Times.

S&P also warned that unless they receive independently audited financial information from Compton, the city's ratings -- already at BB, or "junk" status -- could be withdrawn or suspended.

City officials announced that Compton could run out of money by summer's end, with $3 million in the bank and more than $5 million in bills due.

A longer-term problem is a $43-million deficit that the city amassed after years of improperly using money from water, sewer and retirement funds to balance its general fund. Compton will have to pay the money back at a time when it has no reserves and has been frantically cutting costs.

City officials announced that Compton could run out of money by summer's end, with $3 million in the bank and more than $5 million in bills due.

The state of these cities underscores the complexity of the fiscal crisis roiling California municipalities this year, with Stockton and Mammoth Lakes already in Chapter 9 bankruptcy. While ballooning public pensions and falling property tax revenues have hit many cities hard, bad accounting practices and improper use of funds have also taken a toll.

A recent grand jury report found that the High Desert city of Victorville used a series of possibly illegal measures to stave off insolvency. Those included dipping into sanitation funds to help keep the city's treasury afloat, loaning water agency funds to bail out the city's electric utility and siphoning $2 million in airport bond funds to buy land for a city library.

The inter-agency borrowing was so questionable — with $69 million sloshing around City Hall as of June 2011 — that the Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation, which is ongoing.

In Montebello, state auditors last year said they were troubled to learn that the city regularly used money designed for specific purposes to balance its budget — in apparent violation of the law.

Victorville, Montebello, Los Angeles, Oakland?

It's a safe bet to add Montebello and Victorville to the list. Moreover, some of the big guns will eventually go under as well.

California is still doing better than Italy;

From La Stampa,

Over 10 Italian big cities are on the verge of financial collapse. Debts, derivatives and mistakes: the Italian municipalities are in crisis. After the default of Alessandria, a big city in Piedmont (North-Western Italy), there are several risks for Turin, Milan, Napoli, Palermo, Reggio Calabria and other cities with over 50,000 inhabitants. "Too much debts, over 10 metropolitan cities should ask to Corte dei Conti (the Italian Court of Auditors) for an orderly default," Graziano Del Rio, chairman of Italian Association of Commons, said to La Stampa. In last week the Sicily has asked for a financial support and has claimed over €1bn of credits to Italian government.

This can be seen as a revolt...not a "collapse." Believe what you will, but all of Italy is fed up with their own banksters the Oligarchy that has foisted on them.

Mussolini made the trains run on time, I understand that was a great thing in Italy, lets hope whom ever cures some of their current problems turns out better.

But we might see a few banksters hanging from the lamp posts.

2013 will prove an interesting year. Better stock up on canned food, and dried pasta
while you still can.


ickenittle

Some Pigs are More Equal Than Others

Animal rights group Mercy For Animals, won a victory for sows after releasing a video showing gestating hogs kept in cramped, cruel conditions that leave pigs with very little room to move, let alone turn around. The sows are forced to stand or lay, unable to turn, walk or move in any way, supposedly to keep them safe from harm.

Costco has added its name to the list of retailers and restaurants calling for a ban to phase-out the inhumane practice of gestation crate cruelty from its suppliers. Wal-mart on the other hand, continues to support some of the worst suppliers in the pork and chicken industry, mainly Tyson and Hormel.

Mega corporate pork producers claim the crates, standard equipment for at least two decades, keep sows from fighting each other. But pressure from animal rights groups -- often accompanied by undercover videos -- has helped prompt many major restaurant chains and food companies have called to halt the use of gestation crates, particularly over the past year.

McDonald's folded under pressure after Mercy for Animals released a video of workers abusing chickens meant to be used in the making of chicken-mcnuggets, a menu item popular with children.The video would give most children nightmares, as if Ronald McDonald isn't scary enough.
The video marks the second surreptitious recording in Minnesota by Mercy For Animals within the past year. In November, the group released a video of conditions in hen houses owned by Litchfield-based Sparboe Farms, one of the nation's largest egg producers.

Only public pressure can change the ways of these factory farming sociopaths, who practice animal cruelty as a business model.

Let's hope Karma is real.

Our Recovery

Now for news about another kind of pig;

Our economic recovery is going into the D-zone (Depression)

The recovery that never was is creeping ever-so-slowly towards the edge of the financial cliff. Enough unexpected bad news happened last week that analysts and experts are back-pedaling their cheerful pro-recovery glee, while the corporate media, all crowing how "America is back!" have fallen mysteriously silent with foot-in-mouth disease.

The latest manufacturing index shows manufacturing to be contraction rather than expansion, with an increase in temporary workers, pushing permanent employment expectations over the edge. A report from the National Association for Business Economics scrapped any hope for hope, as the survey showed companies have cut their hiring plans.
39% of the respondents intended to add jobs in the next six months back in March, as of June that number slipped down to 23%. Another unexpected 0.5% drop in retail sales didn't help either.

This cheery scenario of course does not consider the big ugliness lurking in the wings, like a Eurozone crisis of some sort or an attack on Iran, or the threat of drought throughout the major food growing regions that could lead to massive crop failures.

La-la-la.....I can't hear you..............The recession is over, the recession is on, the recession is over, the recession might come back”

Out here in 99% Reality Land, we have been in a Depression since Oct. 2008, at least, and it has never stopped, and is just slowly getting worse. It must be the “Hush-hush Depression”, because individuals do not want to discuss their personal financial crises. Most people are hanging on by a thread, if not quietly flaming out entirely.

Just because the MSM and their enabling nit-wits with their fancy analyses and hog-washed charts keep the con going, doesn’t mean that the facts aren’t known by the rest of us.

At some level “recession” is defined as the economy actively getting worse. So the “recovery” starts as soon as thing stop getting worse.

Bear in mind that US financial pigs have a much stronger commitment to class war than to economic recovery. The compulsion to destroy wages and any remaining social rights is overwhelming, and will ensure the decline continues.
In particular, truly wealthy pigs are strongly motivated to protect their own trough in a bad economy, even at the expense of a recovery. Only very serious externalities, such as the fear of a public uprising, can focus their attention. So don't look to them for answers.

The proven method for optimum profits has always been through labor deflation. Just fire people and don't replace them (arbitrage) or send jobs overseas. It's a neat-and-tidy way to ax human beings into tiny bits without spilling a drop of blood.

Gore Vidal summed up the blood-thirsty financial vampires best when he said;
“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.” 

It’s actually about relative to absolute power not wealth or its creation. Vidal’s maxim neatly captures the bankrupt mentality of  banksters and sociopaths, whose wealth and power requires the dispossession and dis empowerment of others. They use the creative destruction of disaster capitalism, turning the economy into a war zone. Where winning the war isn't enough- they poison the wells and kill the livestock so future generations suffer as well.

The very idea of shared prosperity is blasphemy to them, for they are blinded by narcissism. They can't imagine a world where there is no us or them, to believe so would dis-empower the self created myth that they are superior (some pigs are more equal than others)

Looking around at the mass hysterical blindness afflicting a vast percentage of Americans, it appears we’ve achieved Orwell’s dystopian doublethink:


“The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them….To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies." Is it no wonder you walk around feeling confused?

Political pigs pretend to care about the economy, but are actually engaged in a large scale class warfare where the rich attack the non-rich and the non-rich have hardly mounted a defense. The administration, except for some negligible lip service, participates in the attack.

 Kunstler said it all with this;

 “As the reality of total, comprehensive bankruptcy simmers up, perhaps a critical number of citizens stop forking over their quarterly taxes – since it would be the same thing as pounding sand down a rat-hole. Then, things really go south governance-wise. The next revolution in North America could make 1793 Paris look like an Ace of Cakes episode. Lamppost lynchings will seem too merciful.”

Not a bad idea no? Since money equals power- the only weapon we have to defend ourselves is to stash our cash under the mattress and exercise our right to cut the greedy pigs off from their money addiction.

Costco got the message, and so can the financial hogs over-feeding at the trough.

BTW, Spain is repeating the same failed policy as the U.S. by bailing out the banks.

The Spanish translation for pig is "cerdos" As in some "cerdos" are more equal than others.

ickenittle

Boom, There Goes San Bernadino

The City Council in San Bernardino voted Tuesday night to seek Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, making it the third California city in less than two weeks to make the desperate move.

The Southern California city of about 210,000 people will also become the second largest in the nation ever to file for bankruptcy. Stockton, the Northern California city of nearly 300,000, became the biggest when it filed for Chapter 9 on June 28.

The City Council directed the city attorney to make the move during a meeting where administrators explained the dire fiscal circumstances and urged them to choose the bankruptcy option.

"We have an immediate cash flow issue," Interim City Manager Andrea Miller told Mayor Patrick Morris and the seven-member City Council, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Miller said the city is facing a budget shortfall of $45.8-million. It has already stopped paying some vendors, and may not be able to make payroll over the next three months.
Four council members voted for the authorization, two opposed it, and one abstained.

City Atty. James Penman said city budget officials had falsified documents presented to the mayor and council for 13 of the last 16 years, masking the city's deficit spending.

Will they be prosecuted? Don't be on it.

The expected bankruptcy for the city of 209,000 residents is certain to heighten concerns about the fiscal forecast for other struggling California cities, which have been slashing jobs and services as tax revenues have declined during the prolonged economic slump.
The city joins two others in California - Stockton and Mammoth Lakes -  that have turned to bankruptcy in recent weeks to cope

The reality of this all is large cities and municipalities can no longer afford the expenses that come with running a city.  The U.S. is in a state of contraction. The global recession is here, and no president can change what is happening in the " bigger picture."

As goes San Bernardino...so goes the Nation....and the rest of the world.

Keep an eye on Ebay in 2013, chances are good you will find your own home town listed there.

Just be patient, and don't bid until the last minute, it's the best way to up your odds.

I just bought a town last week, and am designating it as a politician-free zone.



ickenittle

 

Goodbye Scranton, Hello Stockton

Scranton, Pennsylvania's, (population 76,089 ), is down to its last $5,000 and has no way to pay salaries of any of it's public employees.

Mayor Chris Doherty wants an immediate tax hike of 29% and 78% over three years. In every sense of the word, Scranton has gone bust.

The city sent out paychecks to its employees Friday, like it does every two weeks, but this time the checks were much smaller than expected. Mayor Doherty had cut every one's pay - including his own - to the state's minimum wage: $7.25 an hour.

Imagine every one's surprise, when pay-day rolled around.

Doherty wants to raise taxes to fill a $16.8-million gap, but the city council wants to borrow more money, both sides are at odds with each other, leaving the poor folks of Scranton feeling royally screwed.

After paying workers Friday, the city had only about $5,000 left in the bank. More money flowed into city accounts that day, but it was still not enough to pay the $1 million the city still owes to its nearly 400 employees.

The firefighters' union, along with the police and public works unions, have taken the city to court. Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse issued an injunction, essentially agreeing with the unions that the city was breaking the law, but Doherty says he doesn't have another choice. Despite the injunction, he had the city send out paychecks based on minimum wage.

The unions plan to be back in court first thing Monday morning to ask the judge to hold Doherty in contempt.

The Scranton Times-Tribune reported there's no way for the city to take out a loan because it is unable to show it is capable of paying it back. Scranton has become a sub-sub-prime borrower, that even a payday lender won't touch.

"I'm trying to do the best I can with the limited amount of funds that I have," Doherty said in an interview, "I want the employees to get paid. Our people work hard -- our police and fire -- I just don't have enough money, and I can't print it in the basement."

The unions see the mayor's pay slash as a bullying technique designed to force the city council to adopt his tax increases, but without money in the bank - it's a moot argument. Maybe Mitt Romney can help Scranton out with some of that cash he has stashed over-seas.


As far as the residents of Scranton go, who in their right mind is going to hang around after they hike taxes? It'll become like another Detroit complete with falling home values and zero public services. Just try to sell your home now. Good-luck with that Scranton. 

Maybe if Scranton had not incorporated itself as a city, and become a bank holding corporation like Goldman-Sachs or J.P Morgan the cash and bonuses would still be flowing. You don't see anyone working at either of these making minimum wage do you?

Will Scranton become the next Stockton, CA?

During the last three years Stockton has seen it's share of dysfunction. With a $90 million in deficits after cutting police and fire-fighters, Stockton is still winning the race to the bottom. Residents are seeing rising crime rates, plummeting home values and an explosion in homelessness.

Since Stockton couldn't plunder employee pensions by law, they have eliminated heath benefits for all employees, including retirees. As of July 1, the bankruptcy plan approved by the City Council cuts contributions to current employee and retiree heath benefits and eliminates benefits for all employees with less than 10 years of city service. (How's that for a slap in the face?)

We are witnessing the results of pure crony capitalism. Where did all the money go?

After the privately owned banks and Wall Street sucked the real estate market dry (on paper), billions of our actual greenbacks went to private corporations to make up for their lost paper when their Ponzi scheme ended. You don't see the federal government bailing out the cities;( thanks to republicans) only private corporations have been bailed out where private losses have been socialized through corporate welfare.

Just some of that mythological " free-market capitalism" that is a free ride if you are a  too-big-to-fail bank or job outsourcing corporatation with tax-free accounts stashed over-seas.

Just remember the old saying, "You get what you pay for." Tell that to a firefighter working for minimum wage, and don't complain when he doesn't make it to your house in time before it burns to the ground.



My Cat is a qualified
fire-fighter in Scranton, PA

You might get faster service from the kid flipping burgers at McDonald's, because as far as pay-rate versus skill level goes, he's qualified to do the job.

Or you could just hire Gus (right) to do it, he'll work any job for cheese.

Contact me for an interview.

ickenittle

Sacred Christian Cross Burning Ceremony

 A paster's conference in Winfield, Alabama is causing quite a stir among the local community. A flier advertising the event states;

"Annual Pastors Conference All White Christians Invited."

The flier appeared in the dead of night when everyone was asleep before business owners could object. When you are doing God's work, getting permission before-hand is just not necessary. After all Jesus himself didn't need permit, or permission to share his views.



What could be racist about this?

According to the flier, the three-day conference ends with a "Sacred Christian Cross Lighting Ceremony."  (no, it's not a joke)

Winfield Mayor Wayne Silas says he and other folks in town are not pleased since this event is not representative of their community in any way.

"Business people are upset. The city is upset. The city of Winfield does not condone this," Silas said.

The events organizer, Rev. William C.Collier says that his Church of God's Chosen, is not a hate group, but believes "the white race is God's chosen people."

Organizers said although there is a strong KKK presence, the Klan did not sponsor the event.

Collier defends why only white Christians are invited.

"We don't have the facilities to accommodate other people. We haven't got any invitations to black, Muslim events. Of course we are not invited to Jewish events and stuff," Collier said.

Collier insisted that the "Sacred Christian Cross Lighting Ceremony" to be held on final day of the event symbolized an "opposition to tyranny."

"We are not burning a cross, look at the wording, it says light a cross, Christian Identity Ministries Reverend Mel Lewis asked. "If you light a light in your house do you burn down your house?" We often use fire. Our ancient fathers said fire was a cleansing element. Even the Bible says the earth will be purified with fire what purer element can we use as a symbol of our worship?"

The conference has met for three years in Lamar County and there has been no trouble in the past and supporters say they don't expect any over the next three days.

The shed er..church

New plumbing for those "black only" water fountains could get expensive, maybe that's what he means when he says he doesn't have any facilities to accommodate those "other people."


Could be too, that the shed..er..church is just too small to hold lawnmowers and people at the same time, and just think of all those out-houses you'd need to segregate those "others" as well.


Maybe while you are visiting the new holy-land you can get your lawnmower fixed for the cost of a case of beer. I hear they use Doritos instead of  wafers to represent the body of Christ.

And bring your own plastic jug, just in case there is a long line at the out-house.


ickenittle

And You Thought Climate Change was Scary

U.S. space agency NASA released a warning that a massive solar flare was recorded on Monday that could cause spectacular geomagnetic storms on Earth as soon as Wednesday, which here in the United States is Independence Day.

Though scientists at NASA won't speculate as this being a "freaky coincidence", they have hinted it to be one big-ass mother of a solar flair.


Video published by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the flare in multiple wavelengths jetting out from a sunspot on July 2. The agency said that it caused a magnetic burst that may be powerful enough to cause significant static interruptions in some radio communications in Europe and light up the night skies with atmospheric auroras.

Talk about a fireworks display.

The burst was almost powerful enough to be classified by NASA as an X-class solar flare, the highest and most threatening rating. An X-class flare could significantly disrupt space-based electronics like global positioning systems, cause stock markets to crash or even knock out whole power grids for weeks or months, which NASA has been warning about for years now after predicting the current period of intense solar activity.

The latest flare shouldn’t be enough to cause such disruptions, but NASA says that conditions are ripe for another X-class flare. A similar event in 1989 caused blackouts in Canada.

Maybe this is just a big distraction on the part of the U.S. and International governments to conceal the fact that the world is indeed broke, and they want plenty of time to escape into their well-stocked luxurious missile silos buried deep underground, before we all find out they have f**ked us over one last time.

But then again maybe it's something else, but it can't be real, because solar flares like climate change just don't happen in the real world where having enough money can buy our way out of everything, even the things that nature throws at us.

ickenittle

Your BBQ Chicken is Packing Heat

Well, it's almost here, another Fourth of July to celebrate (or not.)

He may look clean but
he could be a ticking time-bomb

While you are getting ready for the fun-filled day of out-door cooking, and picnic partying, don't forget to wash that chicken thoroughly with soap and water before tossing it on the fiery grill, unless you want to take a chance at being one of the unlucky winners in the E.coli sweepstakes.

Since 51.8% of tested chickens at grocery stores are contaminated with antibiotic-resistant E.coli, odds are you could be among the lucky winners, or casualties, who get to spend their post-fourth of July fun in the local hospital.

Just think of all that great hospital food you get to throw up!

Since many the nation's livestock breeders are slackers when it comes to animal husbandry, they have created a Frankenstein's monster of a E.coli super-bug that is antibiotic resistant. This killer bug was created by the corner-cutting-profits-are-all-we-live-for practice of cramming animals together in inhumane and unsanitary conditions. Factory farmers pump antibiotics into healthy animals as a way to dodge the disease bullet in a profits before safety game of Russian roulette. As long as they get the empty chamber when the trigger is pulled, and never get the bullet, they just keep on playing.

But the bullet is there, and the gun's pointing at your head clueless consumer.

Right now, a whopping 80% of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are fed to livestock. All this is done to promote weight gain and stave off the bacteria found in livestock pens and feed lots. So far, the FDA has done nothing but issue voluntary guidelines to the food and pharmaceutical industries where they can choose to, (A) follow, or (B) ignore. Since most pick choice number two simply because they can, they continue to play high-stakes bacteria poker with you and your kid's health.

So, play it safe this Fourth of July by washing poultry and soaking it in salt water for an hour before cooking. First rub the meat with salt (Kosher is best) and place in cold water with 4 Tbs of salt. Put only enough water to cover your tainted bird and soak. This should do the trick, then rinse in clean water and pat dry.

There you go! You dodged that bullet and have increased your odds of making it another year.

Unless of course you are one of those people who think the picture on the right is a fire-cracker.

Sadly, there's no hope for you.


Have a happy, safe, E.coli free Fourth of July.

ickenittle

America is Dead, Let's All Move to Canada

Oh the HORROR!

Clearly distraught over the Affordable Care Act being upheld, many right-wingers are suffering a melt-down. As they flap their arms up and down wildly  sqawking " America is doomed!", many are threatening to move to Canada, a country they believe is a capitalist utopia, where true freedom rings, no one pays taxes, and handguns are given away with every fill-up.

Twitter was abuzz with just how quickly fake patriotism evaporates when conservatives don't get their way. Here are few examples of Obama Derangement Syndrome in action:

"I'm moving to Canada. Obviously the United States doesn't know what they are doing anymore. This used to be a great country...Pretty sad."

"I'm moving to Canada, the United States is entirely too socialist."

"The supreme court upheld Obamacare. That's it. I'm moving to Canada!"

"God literally f**k this. I'm moving to Canada. Jump off a cliff Obama!"

"I'm done with this bullshit, I'm moving to Canada."

"America is dead. I'm selling everything and moving to Canada!"

Maybe some of these people threatening to move to Canada to avoid socialized medicine, should learn to use 'the google' before they rent that U-Haul to relocate. They might just find out that Canada has enough crack-pots of it's own and doesn't need our surplus.

Others, on the other-hand have declared America D.O.A.

" My country died today."

" America has been on life support for years - today they pulled the plug."

" We are doomed as a country.This entire system and economy must crash and burn. And a lot of pain must ensue. It is in the cards. It MUST happen. Cannot be avoided. So let Obama have his way. Let the democrats get their Obamacare. F**k the supreme court. Ain’t they the ones who made it legal to kill babies? F**k them. They are good for nothing and will all burn in a firey hell. Except for maybe Clarence Thomas."

The future is bleak

Some are even clairvoyant:

"This is how it’s gonna go down: Small businesses will start to either go out of business or contract (further). They will not be able to afford the healthcare benefits they current pay, plus the other taxes/penalties/regulations these insane morons in DC can now mandate.Their employees are let go or their hours are reduced. Nobody is paying any taxes whatsoever, no revenues are coming into DC.
The consumer driven economy, which is 70% of GDP, continues to contract. This puts further strain on small business and the wave of small business closures accelerates.Of course, the sick and disabled die waiting for an appointment as fully 50% of the docs and hospital will be gone, but that was also the plan for these “useless eaters”.

"The fiscal situation of the country continues to deteriorate. The fed.gov reacts in the only way it knows how: continue taxing/fining/regulating.The newly empowered IRS starts confiscating the private property of citizens too impoverished to purchase the services mandated by the fed.gov, citizens who also cannot afford to pay the taxes for being uable to comply in the first place!!
Somebody gets real mad. Cement trucks full of fertilizer start exploding in front of government buildings.Martial law ensues. At least for a little while, until the cash finally runs out or the 100 million gunowners declare war on the parasites, and take the country back."

" We will have to remove these traitors by force to re-establish a lawful government. In short, we are either going to have to have a junta, or an all-out Civil War. I strongly advocate a junta at this point. A junta would be far, the least bloody solution. Sadly, there are no men of integrity left in the flag officer corps to do it - the US military is poulated by vile, power hungery, money grubbing Marxist degenerates just as much as the three branches."

"Once fully enacted, doctors offices will likely resmble the waiting areas of your local DMV.This will be the death of *greatest health care system in the world" 

* huh?

Some offer solutions, while others show their true patriotsm;

" I don't give a single frickin crap anymore. I have decided to to quit voting, quit working hard, and start sucking as much free stuff from the government trough as I can get my hands on until the collpse."

" I'm raising a black flag on the Fourth of July... The American flag is dead, and I'm done caring about this country anymore."

And finally, this rant from Mississippi's own tea party;

When a gang of criminals subvert legitimate government offices and seize all power to themselves without the real consent of the governed their every act and edict is of itself illegal and is outside the bounds of the Rule of Law. In such cases submission is treason. Treason against the Constitution and the valid legitimate government of the nation to which we have pledged our allegiance for years. To resist by all means that are right in the eyes of God is not rebellion or insurrection, it is patriotic resistance to invasion.

May all of us fall on our faces before the Heavenly Judge, repent of our sins, and humbly cry out to Him for mercy on our country. And, may godly courageous leaders rise up in His wisdom and power to lead us in displacing the criminal invaders from their seats and restore our constitutional republic.

With so much back-ass-ward logic coming to light, you'd think the Republican Platform wouldn't need to include this in their plan for America concerning educating children.

We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.



Too much thinking
causes brain tumors



In short, the Republican dream of a dumb America is already in play. For those readers unable to understand the above exerpt from the Republican Platform, Here's the easy version:

Educayshun bad - Stoopid good.

Just don't think about it too hard - it might give you a brain tumor, and since you don't want health insurance, the doctor might tell you to take a vacation and spend your final days enjoying yourself, since there is nothing he can do.

Maybe a vacation in Canada will cheer you up, I hear the weather's great down up....over there.

80 degrees all year round.

Great surfing weather, and the hula girls are real pretty too.


Just don't go during hurricane season.

ickenittle