There’s a simple reason why many elected officials won’t solve issues of the day.

For most politicians, it’s not in their political best interest to solve those problems.

For primary ideological issues, there are three (voter) groups: 1) those FOR the issue; 2) those AGAINST the issue; 3) those who can be PULLed to one side or the other.

If a political party manages to solve an ISSUE, they’ve won their FOR group, lost the AGAINST group, and no longer have an issue to exploit for gain from the PULL group.

(Remember, for politicians it’s not about solving issues…it’s about their political party taking – or keeping – control of the government and all the power that represents.)

If an ISSUE remains unsolved, then, it can be exploited for gain from the PULL group. Adding these voters to their FOR group gives politicians the edge needed to win.

That said, why would a politician solve a polarizing issue?

Just when you thought Obama and his media lapdogs couldn’t sink any lower…

…they run an article blaming the sequester for cutting back on cancer treatments.

First, they tried to blame Republicans for a sequester authored and forced by Obama.

Then they tried to claim its spending cuts would cause economic chaos, when in fact the only cuts are to the rate-of-growth of new spending, not existing spending.

Now, they claim existing cancer patients denied treatment are sequester casualties.

Sequestration was Obama’s idea, and it was Obama who forced it through Congress.

It does not cut existing spending, only the rate-of-growth of new spending.

It’s Obama’s Dept. of Health & Human Services making budgetary decisions that affect existing cancer treatment, rather than addressing new rate-of-growth budgeting.

But they will try their damndest to make Republicans the fall guy…

…even if it means killing off cancer patients to do it.

When planning for the future by looking back at events through history’s ‘telescope’, it would be wise for Republican elite to consider a fundamental Law of Telescopes…

…for magnified clarity from a telescopic perspective…

…one must look through the correct end of the telescope.

A Thursday article in Investor’s Business Daily suggests the Republican star is rising, by reminding readers of the wildly successful states flourishing under GOP rule. The article’s optimism centers on a huge influx of new residents to these states, as a result.

Advising all that “…in politics, demography is destiny…”, the author equates the recent huge population shifts (to GOP-controlled states) as an acceptance of GOP ideas.

If only it was that easy! History (and BlueCollar) suggests the author is using the wrong end of the telescope. Besides, a closer look at that ‘demography’ would be in order.

In which case, rather than a telescope it’s more useful to use a powerful microscope; its greater magnification can help detect problems lurking in Red-state population booms.

We firmly believe GOP ideas are good for America and the 50 states, but also know the 1st Law of Parasites…the effective ones never die with the host they feed from.

Successful parasites transfer to a healthy host before the weakened host expires.

So, don’t count on ‘population-shift voters’ jumping en masse on a GOP bandwagon.

That ‘demography’ may be infected. And, even if not all are parasites, it’s an uphill fight.

The Republican case still must be made…more strongly than ever, considering a recent poll, where opinions favored economic policies heavily, until revealed as GOP policy.

Even when a case is made for Republican ideas in the form of successful, prosperous states, there’s no guarantee of a resulting shift to GOP votes come election time.

Because, there’s always the 2nd Law of Parasitic Organisms…

…Parasites don’t change their ways, just because they change their hosts.

California may be dying, but the parasite is determined to live on.

Fair warning, Texas!

For millennia, ‘Marriage’ has been between a man and a woman.

Call it the Natural Order of things…it took one of each to procreate, and without that grouping the human species would have died out long ago.

(You can’t fool Mother Nature – don’t blame others…blame Nature.)

So, for those of a different partnership choice, please use a different terminology.

Those who want a same-sex partnership, yet seek similar benefits as marriage, should be able to do so. But not at the expense of turning traditional language on its head.

In the matter of same-sex unions, then, call it ‘unioniage’… If ‘words matter’.

As Chief Justice Roberts noted, you can force a child to call another child a ‘friend’, but if that other child doesn’t fit the definition, you’ve removed all meaning from the word.

And, it’s not a ‘civil right’.

Because – where there’s not a choice (like being born female, or being born black) -partnership contracts are a choice…and as such do not fit the ‘civil rights’ criteria.

Think of it like incorporating; just as you can choose a corporation, an ‘S’ corporation, or an LLC type, to fit your needs…so you can choose a ‘marriage’, or a ‘unioniage’…they all offer benefits and protections, based on differing criteria to fit the needs for each.

One can argue that, if a ‘unioniage’ gives a same-sex partnership all the benefits of a marriage (under law), and thus all ‘rights’ are protected, then the only point left to claiming the ‘marriage’ title for a same-sex union is to force its re-definition.

Forcing a redefinition doesn’t make it right. Here’s a fun real-time demonstration…

Joining two beverages, orange juice to vodka, makes a ‘screwdriver’.

When your gay friends claim privilege to redefine marriage at, say, a dinner party, pour them an orange-juice/orange-juice mix: tell them it’s a newly-redefined ‘screwdriver’…

…and if they can get intoxicated drinking it…they can get ‘married’!

There’s a national dialogue going on, over converting low-info voters to the GOP.

Democrats have proven that Class Warfare and Personal Destruction Politics work.

Republicans have proven that ‘taking the high road’ of proven ideas…doesn’t.

(Want proof? A recent poll of various economic policies showed an overwhelming preference for a certain set of ideas…until they were shown to be Republican ideas.)

BCP suggestion: a) follow the fundamental first step of every self-help program, and…

…b) take a page from the Democrats’ playbook – don’t hype your policy, attack theirs.

Every self-help guru will say the first step to recovery is recognizing there’s a problem. So, now extend that first step, by showing low-info voters they have a problem…

…every time they vote for Democrat policies that hurt them and hold them back.

Case in point – Poverty. In the last 50 years since announcing their War on Poverty, the Democrats have developed 80+ means-tested programs, now spending $1.03 trillion per year – yet, the percentage of Americans living in poverty remains constant.

Why?

The US Census revealed in 2011 there were 16.8 million households (using family of 4 averaging) living under the $23k/year threshold. If HALF the money spent on programs were sent to those households instead, each family would get almost $30k per year…

…in addition to the annual amount they were already earning! Poverty solved!!

What about daily expenses: food, clothing, shelter, phones, gas for the family car?

Everything is affected by energy costs, yet the SAME Democrats claiming to champion the poor enact policies that drive up energy prices… disproportionately hurting the poor.

(E.g.: Despite claims their opponents are in Big Oil’s pocket, it’s Democrats fighting to obstruct drilling in America; law of Supply-&-Demand – reduce supply, prices go up.)

What party gives billion$ to campaign donors running green-energy scams, but forces a low-income Dad to drive to work day after day on $4-per-gallon gas? Democrats.

And what about taxes?

Democrats say they want to tax businesses rather than the little guy, all while knowing that businesses will simply add tax costs to their products…that the little guy must buy!

Who really ends up paying the ‘business’ tax? The little guy.

Now go back up to the “Case In Point” paragraph above, and read down through the points being made; there’s only one Political Party mentioned – that’s right, Democrats.

Every time they pay an electric bill, fill their gas tank, or buy groceries, the low-income (read ‘low info’) voter should be aware of what party drains their hard-earned dollars.

And, just as important, how deceitfully that Party’s methods are employed against them.

How can that not resonate with Low-Information voters?

Every waking American proud of their country and aching for hope that our nation will come through this dark time should read this Victor Davis Hanson article today.

Mr. Hanson displays in just 786 words why he is one of the true intellectuals in the USA.

Many hear the term ‘American Exceptionalism’, few understand its significance.

(Any BlueCollarPerspective using selected ‘pull-quotes’ just won’t do it justice.)

Want to feel good about America again? READ IT at Investor’s Business Daily!

(And the answer to Mr. Hanson’s first paragraph ‘one reason why America won’t (decline)…’ can be found in the 1-sentence eighth paragraph: ‘meritocratic’.)

Meritocracy focuses on rewarding ability and talent, and America does it better.

Kudos to Mr. Hanson – 786 words that succintly defines…why…we are who we are.

Move over Rush Limbaugh…

File this under “Or maybe they were just joking…”

Bill Maher exposed on his HBO RealTime show during a gun-control discussion exactly why it’s hilarious to participate in a battle of wits with an unarmed (i.e., witless) man…

He calls Americans ‘morons…complete idiots…’, just before complaining about a gerrymandered country causing Democrat Senators to cave to gun-rights advocates…

But… you can’t ‘gerrymander’ voting for Senators, Bill…

…they’re elected in state-wide contests!

(To be fair, maybe late-night Fridays push Mr. Maher beyond his IQ limits?)

But, wait…comedian (?) Jim Carrey had to step up this Sunday morning.

Tweeting to all gun-rights advocates they were “…heartless motherf%*#ers unwilling to bend for the safety of our kids…”, Jim displayed breathtaking ignorance of simple fact…

Not one law-abiding citizen has ever committed a gun-crime…

…and not one gun-crime evildoer has ever obeyed a gun law.

In the land of the Witless, truly, the Half-Wit reigns supreme..

Which means dimwits Maher and Carrey provide comic relief for the Leader…

As reported Saturday in the Daily Caller:

“Senate Democrats pass $1 trillion in new taxes”

Such is the life of a Democrat politician…

It’s a stupefying event that will go largely unreported by the lapdog media.

Democrat Senators joined with Republicans Thursday to overwhelmingly revoke ObamaCare’s $29 billion excise tax on medical device sales by a 79-20 margin.

One Senate Democrat labeled the 2.3% tax as a punishment of industry, another Senate Democrat referred to it as a ‘burden’ on businesses, and a jobs killer.

Take a moment, and read that last sentence again…

Senate Democrats (33 of them) and 1 Independent who normally votes with Democrats renounced a 2.3% business tax as a punishing burden, an unnecessary job destroyer.

But those same Democrats (and Independent) voted in January to increase taxes of MUCH HIGHER rates, for a wide swath of Americans in ALL income levels!!!!

If a 2.3% tax on the medical device industry is bad, how can any additional tax on any other type of business (or on individual Americans as a whole) be GOOD?

In a startling moment of revelation, Democrats reveal their class warfare schizophrenia.

And a compliant media yawns…

Why DOES the Department of Homeland Security need 1.6 billion (with a ‘b’) rounds of ammo, if the most its combined agencies use in a year’s training is 15 million rounds?

Why do the 295 agents working for the Social Security Admin. need 174,000 rounds of hollow-point ammo? Ammo so lethal the Geneva Convention bans its use… in war!

As wild conspiracy theories proliferate, BlueCollar suggests you relax…

…just ‘follow the money’.

We see this as simply Democrat political multi-tasking. Billion-round purchases…

a) deplete market supplies of ammo the average citizen gun-owner can purchase, thereby achieving a backdoor suppression of your 2nd amendment rights, and

b) funnels the tax $$ used for government ammo-buys to Democrat campaign donors controlling those ammunition supplies (who then launder the money back through the Democrat party and/or their political action groups, as campaign contributions).

Nothing as sinister as a government turning weapons on its own citizenry.

Just typical political greed; another way of taking money from the American taxpayer, while simultaneously (and surreptitiously) trampling a citizen’s 2nd amendment rights.

Hey, do the math: 295 Social Security agents would have to shoot 2.7 senior citizens every working day in a year to use up 174,000 rounds of hollow points.

And some of those senior citizens might object…