Saturday, October 9, 2010

Random Thoughts of the Week

Here are a few random thoughts about stuff from the week, enjoy...

Ethics - Rangel admitted he had some "ethical lapses." Waters husband, and therefor her, benefited from the assistance given to One-United Bank. GUILTY.
If these were two Republicans it would be in all over the evening news every day. I am only surprised the the propaganda wing of the Democratic party ran this story before the elections.

CA Legislatures - If they won't vote for cuts, vote them out, because they will just put us in more debt.
If they vote for more taxes, vote them out because working Californians pay more than enough already.

VP Biden - A fool and his mouth are never parted.

Allred - Allred is an ambulance chasing, opportunistic weasel. I will say it again, if this was about the maid, she'd be in court.
It's not about the maid, it's about Brown. What else is brown and sometimes needs to be shoveled?

Nicky - Am I to believe someone who lied about her legality as a citizen, falsified her social security number and more? No.
Am I to believe the greatest known opportunistic lawyer "who can only say" the lie she wants me to believe? Again no.
Who will believe Diaz and Allred? The same people who believed that Wild Bill Clinton didn't inhale and struggle with the meaning of "is."

$111 billion in LA Stimul-less -
1. Sounds like mostly temporary jobs.
2. Sounds like mostly government jobs.
3. Sounds like government mismanagement at its' best.
4. Sounds like a waste of tax payer money.
55 jobs!? Pathetic...

Friday, October 8, 2010

Take Back Your Schools LA!

Antonio Villaraigosa speaking at an ACLU event.Image via Wikipedia
I am just wondering how the "honorable" Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa can look look himself in the mirror? I has been said that the worst deception is self-deception.

My local fish-wrap tells me, that
"Joined by civil rights lawyers and Los Angeles Unified officials, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged the local teachers union Thursday to support reform layoff procedures or get left behind."
Here's the deal: all the teachers that are at the Mayors' school are hand picked. Why didn't the mayors' team pick teachers with more experience? I took part in those race-based exercises. What a farce! Now, the group is offering teachers $10,000 bonuses to come teach in their schools. Of course, it doesn't hurt if you look like the mayor. Just go to any of the schools sites and check out the "diversity" of the staff. Pfff! Back to the hand picked teachers chosen by "PartnershipLA." Again, THEY recruited, THEY chose, THEY should be developing their choices. Now, Villaraigosa wants to infect all LA schools with a problem he chose to have.

This problem of inexperienced teachers going to under-preforming schools has always existed. There was money given to schools with staffs that had teachers with less than the average tenure. I guess the Democratically controlled state legislature let that end.  
Antonio is not trying to help all schools, he's just trying to save his partnership.
Take back your schools LA!
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

In LA It's Stimul-less not Stimulate

LED SIGNALImage via Wikipedia
Sometimes the simplicity of the truth makes the complexity of the absurd, well, absurd. The $111million in stimulus finds received by Los Angeles has produced 55 jobs! That's lottery winning odds of getting a job as the result of stimulus funds. There should be a movie line I can quote where the actor says (with appropriate Southern drawl), "What we have here, is a failure to stimulate."

The old saying goes: "You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day, or teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime." A look at the jobs that are supposed to be being stimulated are fish rather than fishing lessons. Here is a sample of some jobs LA is hoping to stimulate. 
Among these are restriping left-turn lanes, replacing old traffic lights with energy-efficient LED signals, improving traffic signal safety at grade crossings and improving Commuter Express and DASH bus services. - Daily Breeze
Before the jobs are even created there is the biggest obstacle to the whole mess. The usual culprit for creating waste is the government. There is Federal, State and City bureaucratic red tape to be navigated. Supposedly, many jobs are lost in the red tape. They are being planned. 55 people are no longer waiting.

Governments do not create jobs. Entrepreneurs create businesses which create jobs. When the government tries to take the place of free market enterprise you get Cuba. People don't stand in line for jobs in Cuba, they stand in line for bread. I don't want to stand in line for bread. The way to create jobs is to allow businesses to flourish. The so-called "stimulus" package is just fish for a day.

So, it looks to me like it has, as predicted, become a "stimu-less" package. 
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

No Tax Tuesday: No Props No Taxes

Conservative Party poster from 1909, in which ...Image via Wikipedia
In California we have a Proposition on the ballot that is just amazing. On the street when there is a proposition, someone gets screwed. Same goes for politics. Proposition 21 would like to fund state parks with an additional vehicle registration fee of $18.00. That is not a fee, that is a tax. You can call it a fee, but, it's a tax. If it is a tax, I don't want to pay it. I don't like taxes normally because the money is so poorly applied to the betterment of our country. But, during these tough economic times it is absurd to ask Californians to pay anything extra. 

This brings me to the cash flow of our current tax base. Someone said that socialism was great until you ran out of someone else's money. Am I the only one who thinks we have run out money? You could try to print more, but that's stupid on so many levels, the most obvious that it devalues what is already out there. You could borrow money, but, you just owe more in the long run. 

Now, the facts are that over 1,000,000 jobs have been lost in California since 2005. If each person only paid $1,000 annually in taxes that is a $1,000,000,000 loss per year in tax revenue! We thank Barbara Boxer, Jane Harman and the rest of the Democrats who naively and foolishly believed that they could tax businesses as much as they wanted and businesses would just except the proposition. Jerry Brown still thinks those awful people should "pay their fair share!" Sanctimonious but stupid.

Businesses leave, jobs leave, people leave, tax revenues leave. This kind of reminds me of eating out with  a flake. They forget their wallet, or just leave you with the bill. I don't fault people for leaving California for a job or a better job. I don't fault businesses for leaving California for a more business friendly environment. I definitely fault the liberals for chasing businesses out of California. Now they want me to pay more?

Read my vote!
Taxed Enough Already!

Monday, October 4, 2010

Be Angry and Vote

VOTEImage by Theresa Thompson via Flickr
As a citizen of an overwhelming Democratic state and a teacher surrounded by leftist nuts I understand the feeling that my vote may not be to meaningful. But, I still vote. I am not sure that the Tea Party will be able to generate enough votes in the south Bay, where I live to oust any long seated Democrats. But, I will vote.

I hope that anyone who is "undecided" will ask themselves the question, "Has the Democrat I voted into office helped or harmed California?"

I think the Tea Party has done an outstanding job of demanding from conservative  and liberals alike an accounting for their actions. How does your representative account for the loss of jobs suffered here in the South Bay and in California.

Barbara Boxer likes to say that Carly Fiorina outsourced thousands of jobs as CEO of Hewlett Packard, yet under the care and guidance of "Call me Senator, I have earned it" Barbara Boxer over 1,200,000 jobs have left California since 2005. Just last week over 500 jobs were lost in the South Bay that Jane Harman was "assured" were safe. Are they worthy of your vote? 

Most "Independents" are liberal and just like to check Independent because they think it makes them sound more "open-minded." Yet, they still vote Democrat. If you are truly independent take an honest look at the issues and the candidates.

Can California support liberal ideals? The budget says no.

Will businesses stay if taxed even more?   Businesses are saying no already and taking jobs to more business friendly states like Texas.

If you are angry like me, vote.
In California, and in the US all over, we need jobs, and less taxes. Vote accordingly! 
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