No Tax Tuesday or Doofenshmirtz on Taxes 6 21 11 Edition

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How many times do people have to say it before the politicians hear it. NO MORE TAXES!!!

Yet, what is Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown really trying to do? Continue high taxes and ask for more. What does the President really want to do? Raise more taxes, redistribute your wealth. What does Congress want to do? Raise your taxes. 

Career politicians don't want to help people, they just want to manipulate them and exercise control. It is not about helping people, it is about controlling them. That is why politicians like Brown, Lieu and Janice Hahn are more concerned with keeping programs that can buy votes than actually helping the economy and providing true lasting jobs and stability. For some common sense ideas see Craig Huey @ www.CraigHuey.com. 

If the California legislature really wanted to balance the budget and if Jerry Brown was truly trying to cut spending he would consider the expenses that suck the life out of state. Jerry vetoed the Democratic the budget authored by Democrats and rammed through by Democrats, which under the wise old law would not have been passed because it could not muster a 2/3 majority. Yet, Jerry Brown blames Republicans for the budgets obvious failings. Hello McFly! That's politics, blame your opponents for your failings. Who voted in these financially and truth challenged Doofenshmirtz? 

See Jane go, look out below

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I was greeted by my local paper this morning with the news that U.S. Representative Jane Harman is quitting her seat in Congress. My first reaction was of course to be pleased that she would no longer be hampering the South Bay with her "leadership". But, it kind of reminded me of when I first started teaching.

I started teaching right after an ugly two + week strike. When I heard how it all went down I thought that the Union president was a knucklehead. Then came the next Union president who had no clue how to bargain or walk across the street and thus made the first guy look better than he was. Following her was a man who I am sure only owned slip on shoes because tying them was way beyond his pay scale and in turn made the first Union president I knew look like a genius. Finally, we have someone who has his moments and a clue about bargaining  but his wardrobe can be embarrassing. 

My point is that even though I am delighted to see Jane go, I am also worried about who may come after her. I worry because I live in her district where my fellow citizens have voted her in nine times even though, despite her alleged knowledge of the space industry, many aerospace jobs have left and Jane didn't see it coming! Seriously, I am surrounded by people who elected Jerry Brown in again! The rest of the country figured out that Obamanomics is does not work, yet Californians voted in every single left wing nut on  the ticket.

I am worried, because even though it is nice to see Jane go, my experience tells me that an even more liberal politician is just waiting for the opportunity to exploit the masses in the South Bay and rather not be exploited. 

Martin Luther King, Jr. Outstretched Hands and Pointing Fingers

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Happy Marting Luther King Jr. Day.

For me, racism can be approached two different ways, either with an outstretched hand or a pointing finger. When I think back upon Martin Luther King Jr. I think of an outstretched hand. In his time honored "I Have a Dream" speech he called on Americans to look not to the color of our skin, but to the content of our character. My mother used to say that there are good and bad people, no matter the what they look like on the outside. 

Unfortunately, much of the rhetoric I hear ignores the content of men and women's character and focuses on the color of someones' skin. Basically, it is the pointing finger approach that I hear. I once had a friend of mine tell me, "You have no idea what it is like to be black and be an American!" Here's the deal: I NEVER said I did. I was eating my lunch, saying nothing, precisely because I am not black and growing up black is not my experience. The flip side is that my friend, (I gently replied that I never said I did know what his experience as a black man was like), had no idea what my experience as a white man was like, although he was pretty much assuming he did. My friend and I went to the same private school in elementary and middle school. we both went to private colleges. We both had the same positions in our company. That does not mean our experiences were the same getting there. My friend had just read a book by a white liberal guy blaming all the other white, mostly conservative white people, for all the crimes, injustices and poverty known to African Americans. A pointing, blaming finger without many solutions, just deflection of blame.

When I talk to people, no matter their color, race, religion, or political hankering, in the end we have the same hopes and dreams. What disturbs me the most is that most political dialogue does not unite us but divides us. As a parent I believe I am like any parent in that I want my child to grow up in a world where he or she is free to be who God created them to be. I know the world is not like that. But, I teach my children as I was taught that there are good and bad people, no matter what they look like on the outside and that the inside is what counts. And I teach them to reach out their hands and treat others as you would like to be treated. 

Good-bye 2010, Hello 2011

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I'm not sure what to make of this past year,2010. I had some good times, some not so good times, and some just plain ridiculous times.

I guess if you are a Republican or Conservative it turned out to be a not so bad year. Unless, of course, like me you live in California where the likes of Maxine Waters, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Gaven Newsom and Jerry Brown still hold the masses under a deep hypnosis of liberalism. 

I am still trying to find a Tea Party in my area. I think the basic ideals of conservative, which the Republican Party so easily strays from need to be advertised and presented in a understandable manner. I am very tired of hearing Democrats and liberals, via their propaganda wing (like la Times) misstating conservative ideals and deceiving the public by withholding the truth about liberals and liberalism. News agencies refuse to tackle the truth. For example,I have yet to see and news article on the fact that in a state run by a Democratic legislature, that since 2005, over 1,200,000 Californians lost their jobs and that companies have taken those jobs to more business friendly states. I have yet to hear a whisper of a call for accountability from the legislature from our press core. That is why so many turn to the internet. May the government keeps its' slimy hands off!!! 

What I did enjoy this year was going on vacation with my family and participating in Cub Scouts with my son. There is nothing like the smile on your child's face when they are enjoying something other than video games. 

May God bless you and your family, our state, and our country.

Have a great and blessed 2011!

Just a Little Cannon Fire

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It has been a horrible time for Californians.
A foolish group of State legislatures who legislated over 1.2 million jobs out of California in the last 5 years alone.
A Democrat in Republican clothing of a Governor.
Next, a clueless populace that votes in the same group that put them into the mess they are in.
And we voted for a simple majority to eliminate the check and balance of legislature.
Schwarzenegger AND the legislature have been lame all around.



Until we have a President and a Congress that understands that America needs to produce products and that the governments jobs is to make that not only possible but probable, we will just become a has been nation.
Why is China doing well? Their government understands that to make money they must produce. And produce they do.
Who is lending to who?



After 22 years in education from Compton and Vernon to San Pedro, Elementary to High School, parents make the school. Yes, good teachers and administrators are helpful,but, if the parents are not insistent that their children succeed, educational success will just be a mirage. Parents must read with their children and monitor their school work.
My children attend a decent school district. The teachers are OK. But, it is still the parents that do what they must to ensure success, whether that means going over homework with their children or getting them a tutor.
Going charter will not change anything unless the parents change.



"We are looking at a $25-billion deficit," Leno said. "Voters need to understand what damage would be done if it were resolved with cuts alone."
Here we go my fellow Californians. Damage to what? The legislature moronic budgets that do nothing but create debt and drive businesses and jobs out of state?
Revenue for the state, less money in the taxpayers' pockets, the way of the liberal, that is Jerry's plan.



The La Habra teachers  are pretty gutsy striking in this political and financial climate.
They should take the furlough days but avoid the pay cuts and be very careful of the pay for "some of the health benefits" stuff.  
I went through a strike and pay cuts in LA. It took over ten year to get our pay back up to what it was before the cuts.
By-the-way, teachers salaries should make up the bulk of the budget because they do the work of teaching (a bit obvious).

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A few cannon shots from the Voice:

Bluberman was a dufus as a sports caster. So, what requires less intelligence? Liberal political analyst.
Who's he related to that they need to keep him on staff?



Gloria Allred is nothing but a high profile ambulance chasing lawyer. She does not care about justice and has no sense of right or wrong. If she did know the difference between right and wrong she would understand the axiomatic truth that illegal is against the law. she might also understand that stealing someone identity is immoral and illegal.



The only way that businesses come is if the City can somehow counteract the anti business depression by taxation policies of our state legislature.
We could of voted them out, but, we chose more liberal leaders.
Here's hoping against hope.



"Others say they are still clinging to the hope of comprehensive immigration reform, focusing on legalizing those who are here illegally."
Others = left wing liberals
It is not reform it is calling illegal legal, wrong right.
We need immigration enforcement and a President who will protect America.

GW Bush - I saw the interview.
How refreshing to not hear a President man up and not blame everyone else.



Missile? No, no, it is was the cost of insurance under the Obamacare plan.



The POTUS vs. South Korea - First of all when you send a boy to do a mans job...The POTUS is simply demonstrating why he is totally unequipped for his job. He's a socialist!!! What the @#&% does he know about a global capitalistic market? NOTHING!!! All he knows how to do is blame the capitalists, not how to support them.
American needs to produce actual commodities. We can not just be consumers. Americas economic problems are because we do not produce (thanks to government policies that tax the life blood out of businesses) not because we do not consume.

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Brown is a Democrat. Whether he asks voter approval or not, his preferred method of increase state cash flow is to tax the crap out or the populace. More tax means a lower standard of living for all tax paying citizens.

Respectfully, Rabbi, you have done an excellent job of manipulating the Scriptures to say what you want. The passage does not state or imply that any belief is just as acceptable to God.
Remember, Rabbi, you are not accountable to me, but to the One True God who will not share his glory with another.

That is why every Californian should vote Republican , jobs!
Democrats don't create business or jobs, they create government bureaucracy!

When will the liberals get it correct? There is a difference between legal and illegal, and between legal immigration and illegal immigration.
Emotionalism does not help it only confuses issues. It is relativism on a poster.
Illegal is illegal.

OK California. Do not approve of more taxes, more government control, and less real jobs.
No on Brown, Boxer, Newsom and all things Democrat.
Vote yes for Whitman, Fiorina, Maldanado and all things conservative.

[QUOTE who="A voter"]Good to see Brown got it.. True, he aint perfect, but much better than Meg "white" man. She was trying to buy the election to no avail. Her plans were to make her deep pocketed freinds richer. She would have been bad for us. Good luck brown, you have lots of work ahead of you..[/QUOTE]
Wait until you discover that every tax against the "rich" will hurt you more. The death tax will still be taxed upon the middle and lower tax brackets. It is nice of you to donate your lives earnings to the government "redistribution" agency.
Enjoy!

Brown claimed victory, saying he still had a "missionary zeal to transform the world" and that he would work on public education and renewable energy.
How about jobs, Jerry? Transform us into what? Start the impeachment now!

Proposition 25 allows the Democratic legislature to ramrod through any dumb budget they want. Get ready for taxes hidden as fees and the like. Hopefully proposition 26 can allow conservatives some ability to save the state from taxing itself into oblivion.

No Child Left Behind is just Title 1 with teeth.
The senators and representative failed (again) by not trying to adjust the goals of NCLB.
The POTUS has already thrown out the baby with the bath water by creating his Race to the Top program.
I have been in education for 22 years and have 4 children of my own. One truth that is unquestionable: Good parents produce good children.

Brown, Boxer, Newsom, a simple majority to pass any moronic Democratic led state legislature budget? Good buy business, good buy jobs.
Into the abyss we go.

I hope the POTUS is truly ready to listen to the ideas Republicans have been saying for years about how to lower insurance cost. But, it sounds like more BS to me.

California Needs a Brown Out

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California needs a Brown out, a Jerry Brown out of office out. It is way past time for Jerry to retire. He still knows how to say stuff without saying anything of importance. He knows how to argue his point even if he doesn't really have one. He knows how sound like he believes one thing even though nothing he has done nothing that backs that up. He knows that the propaganda wing of his political party won't call him out and press him to actually say something meaningful. Jerry Brown knows how to be what he is, a career politician.

One thing I have heard Jerry say over and over is that he knows how to fix California, by living within our means and .... Ok, I agree that is a nice place to start, but has he ever done that? And will the California legislature, which is run by a Democratic majority, run him or will he stop them from their business as usual agenda? Not a chance. Jerry Brown is a lifelong Democrat with a history of moonbeam thought processes. I ask this, if Jerry Brown messed up the California economy the first time, why give him a second chance?

What is frightening about California is that J Brown leads in any kind of poll. I work in education and my union tells me that I should vote for Jerry Brown. Which is one reason why I will not vote for Jerry Brown. Just because J Brown is a Democrat any teacher's union will back the nut up. But, Jerry Brown is a BIG proponent of charter schools. Less than 1 in 5 charter schools are any better than any other pubic school and that is with the ability to cherry pick high preforming students and dump any problematic students if they are displaying any behavioral issues. 

Get out and vote California, vote for a Brown out!

Happy Friday to You All!

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It's Friday. Is that a TGIF or a Finally Friday, or a Throw out the loon Friday? Or maybe it is just a I'm glad it's Friday because I need a breather Friday. For me I think it's all of the above.

For most people, if your fortunate to still have a job, your responsibilities have increased because although businesses have cut back on the number of employees, production demands remain the same. Even though I am in education and we don't produce a product in the classic sense, we do aim to produce students with several skill sets. With less resources to teach, creative means of achieving learning goals must be found. I have always been a "just get it done" person, so, being confronted with a challenge of finding ways to help more students with less money, is just another challenge. That said, it's a lot of work. Thank God it's Friday. 

Sometimes Fridays act, for me, like a milepost, to mark progress or note change. When I look at the political landscape today I wonder if there is progress. Not "progressive" progress, but any kind of positive change. At this time, I do not. I can't believe how many Californians will still vote for the likes of Brown, Boxer, Harman, and Sanchez, despite that fact that their leadership has taken us into the toilet with massive job loss and economic meltdown. It is as if some people believe that the economy just needs a few bucks from anywhere thrown in and soon all will be OK. The loons must go.

At any rate I am thankful for a job and a family I can go home to. A happy Friday to you all.

The United States of America or The Americas

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The other day I read a comment to a article in my local newspaper about immigration deform, opps I mean immigration reform. Well, at first I just sort of shrugged it off as another post by someone geographically challenged. But, the more I thought about it, the more it sort of irritated me.

What my geographically challenged neighbor had said (in a "nut" shell) was that Mexico was part of the Americas too. You know that great country called "The Americas." This was of course his argument to why people crossing the border should be allowed to cross at will.

As an educator for the past 21 years in the Southern California area I have a few observations that may shed some light on the struggle for some people to understand why illegal is not legal and why open  borders are like none barred windows in South Central LA. 

First, I have always been aware that many students are not taught, by my fellow educators, geography. Frighteningly, by shear ignorance many grow up not knowing how many states there are, what continent we live on and what other countries are around the USA. 

Second, there has been something called "multiculturalism" taught in most schools, especially in Southern California. The whole idea is to respect other cultures and allow students to feel like their culture has value and that stuff. My observation: we have created "culturally aware" illiterates. 

Third, when the young impressionable minds get to high school they are bombarded by revisionist teachers who teach their version of US History. When the young mind is hit with this lethal combo of multiculturalism and  usually socialist revisionist crap they grow up thinking that America is the great evil and since people have "migrating" back and forth across the border for centuries borders and not real.

The truth is Canada borders the United States of America to the north (on the continent) and Mexico to the south. Mexico is a separate sovereign country. Mexico did not want the southwest. When the governor of   California asked Mexico if they wanted to govern California, Mexico said no.

There is a border. Mexico has northern and southern borders. Illegal is not legal no matter if one is ignorant or not.