Darn those pesky facts…!

As reported, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has more than doubled since Mar 2009.

The DJIA “tracks the stock prices of 30 large blue-chip companies…”

From that same time, March 2009, the income of your normal American family fell 6%.

Lest we forget, Obama and his Democrat cohort were sworn in to power January 2009.

So, next time Big Government Liberals or the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) claim the Democrat Party is the ‘champion of the Little Guy’, ask them…

Since when did GE, Dupont, B-of-A, and ExxonMobil qualify as a ‘little guy’?

Nothing succeeds like success.

And nothing defines ‘success’ better than Profits…and a rising stock price.

As Jeffrey Anderson of the Weekly Standard so astutely points out…

“…the big government-big business alliance…benefits the Big Guy.”

Dow Jones up 116% since March ’09, American family income down 6%…

Sorry, 97%’ers, looks like your Robin Hood has been robbin’ the ‘hood!

We’ve lost a great friend and Walnut Creek MAU co-volunteer, Nicholas Hoppe.

Cheerful, kind, loving, and gracious, he fought brain cancer to the end.

He loved his family, his friends, and his horses with a quiet dignity and integrity that inspired all who knew him.

We were fortunate to be your friend, and we’ll miss you Nick.

Rest in Peace, knowing you’re gone but never forgotten.

To keep the masses under control, t’were best to hide that they’re being controlled.

Ever wonder why citizens of Detroit and Chicago keep voting ‘more of the same’?

Or, for that matter, America’s citizenry…asking for 4 more years of record high job losses and gas prices, record low GDP growth, record drops in household income?

The bonds of tyranny rest more comfortably on those who don’t realize they’re chained.

Politicians provide that tyranny…and a compliant news media cushion it with velvet.

Ask yourself…why, after 50 years and trillions of dollars, are we still losing the War on Poverty? Why can’t we control Illegal Immigration? Why have our schools failed?

The answer’s simple…it’s not in certain politicians’ best interests to solve these issues.

(Because then those issues remain EXPLOITABLE…!)

Consider – high school and college graduates, recent immigrants (legal or otherwise), and the poor (by definition) are usually at the lower end of the wage scale.

A vast array of demographic polling reveal low income voters favor the Democrat Party.

But, as personal income rises past the $50k-per-year mark and they learn free-market enterprise systems benefit and empower them more than government handouts, they migrate to the party supporting that concept – the Republican Party.

Based on this proven demographic, if a Democrat Party doesn’t want to continually be losing their voter base, it’s in that Party’s best interest to hide the fact that free markets expand individual opportunity – and government control suppresses that opportunity…

They must keep their ‘loyal’ following poor! (Or, failing that, maintain a critical backup program to replenish the losses; i.e. a porous ill-managed immigration system.)

So the next time you wonder why an elected highly-educated elite can’t solve the War on Poverty as they spend $1 trillion a year of our tax dollars on ineffective programs …

…or why an elected highly-educated elite can’t solve problems of Illegal Immigration…

…or why an elected highly-educated elite fail to build an effective education system…

…remember what the Democrat Party needs to keep getting elected to office…

…a low-income, ill-informed voter base.

Sadly, poverty, poor education, and illegal immigration are more advantageous as an Exploitable issue to the Party that needs them to stay in power…Democrats.

If solved, the same deplorable conditions – poverty, poor education, porous/uncontrolled immigration – are devastating to that Party’s politicians!

Thus, these highly-educated elite politicians hammer ineffective policy into Chains…

…and the mainstream media make Velvet their constricting grip.

What a difference a couple of centuries make.

1798 – “…Millions for defense, but not one penny for tribute…!” words declared by House Ways & Means Chairman (Rep.) Harper, upon hearing foreign nations were demanding tribute to stop attacking America’s ships at sea.

It only took 215 years to reverse that priority…

2013 – …’Millions for Tribute, but not one penny for Defense’…paraphrasing John Kerry, United States Secretary of State, evidently citing his boss’s new foreign policy.

As planes fall from the sky, and America’s kids, the elderly, and our national military readiness prepare to ‘suffer‘ from the ‘spending-cut pain’ of Obama’s sequestration…

…incredibly, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood terror-masters get $450 million from Obama’s newest State Department lackey!

This is Obama-world…brought to you by Mainstream Media Productions…

Word has it our new coins will have ‘E Pluribus Unum’ replaced with a new motto…

“Tribute for thee…Sacrifice for me”

Just Kidding folks…

There is good news – childhood obesity is halting or reversing in some states.

The bad news is that the First Lady has taken the credit with her ‘Let’s Move’ program.

Problem is, the bulk of the years of the reversing trends were in the “W.” era…

The O’ FLOTUS program didn’t start until Feb 2010, which creates a huge dilemma for the Obama’s…how to claim this WASN’T George W. Bush’s fault…?

Looks like CNN-CBS-NBC-ABC, the NY Times and Washington Post are gonna have to put in some overtime on this one…

…after all, their ‘journalistic’ expertise centers on blaming President Bush…

We breathlessly await their efforts.

Franklin E. notes that there’s a 5th bird that can be killed with the Sequester Stone…

Polls suggest the majority of voters don’t associate Obama with problems he’s created.

Bird number 5.

We could argue that Bird 1 ‘not wanting to be seen as governing’ and/or Bird 2 ‘not willing to accept blame’ covers this, but Franklin insists it’s a voter perception issue.

Hey, point conceded. Besides, included even as a sub-category it raises the ‘flock kill’ rate (including a sweet added bonus of infuriating PETA activists), so let’s have some fun with it…Bird #5 it is.

Assigning Obama responsibility to select where sequester cuts occur kills the man-in-the-street’s “hey, it ain’t Obama doin’ this” accountability-avoidance Bird.

(Don’t worry, PETA-disciples…in the true spirit of multi-tasking, we’ll designate all the birds killed with a single sequester stone as ‘Wild Turkeys’…

…and feed ’em to the gators.)

Keep those Bird suggestions coming, folks…

They give us more nails to pin Obama to the Accountability Wall…

…and keeps the gators calm.

Killing 4 birds with one stone…the new, improved way to multi-task…

Rush’s lament…Obama doesn’t want to be seen as governing, always positioning himself as fighting against those various forces arrayed before him. Bird number 1.

Obama won’t accept blame for any economic woes his policies inflicted on America, preferring instead the “Bush did it” and “GOP’s doing it” mantra. Bird number 2.

Obama is thoroughly wedded to Liberal ideology. Bird number 3.

Obama gives the Democrat-controlled Senate cover, concealing the fact that not one, but two House bills were sent to Harry Reid to solve the problem. Bird number 4.

House Republicans have just the right stone for killing those 4 birds simultaneously.

The ‘sequester’ stone.

BlueCollar suggested in previous blogs that Obama should be forced to make the necessary and reasonable spending cut decisions on non-essential programs. (Solyndra, anyone?)

Now a noted strategist has written an article suggesting the same thing.

The House can pass a simple, sequester-specific bill assigning Obama the task of identifying exactly where the spending cuts should be made.

OMG – Forced to ‘govern’…! (Bird 1)

Can’t blame Republicans for the choices he has to make…! (Bird 2)

Avoiding Liberal program cuts exposes ideology; or, making cuts to Liberal programs enrages the Liberal base…! (Bird 3)

That House bill must be passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate…! (Bird 4)

(See…we told you…he won’t act like a President, so force him to…)

Now that’s a stone worth romancing…!

Hey…catchy title for a movie…”Romancing the Sequester Stone”…

Where’s Michael Douglas when you need him?

Logic is a beautiful thing.

If Obama’s $900 billion+ government stimulus spending spree resulted in our losing 8.5 million jobs in the private sector…

…isn’t it logical that the reverse – an $85 billion cut in government spending – would create 850,000 jobs, exponentially? Sequestration could be a sweet deal…

If government spending increases got us into this job-loss mess, government spending decreases should get us out of the mess…

Just asking…?

Rose D takes exception to our comparison of Obama sequestration threats targeting the most vulnerable Americans, to Timothy McVeigh’s targeting of innocent government workers and children in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Harsh? Maybe, but here’s irrefutable fact: House Republicans passed 2 bills alleviating the ‘across-the-board’ cuts Obama is threatening…the Democrat Senate buried them.

(HR 5652 May 2012, HR 6684 December 2012)

So, when Obama now threatens the most vulnerable, he does so with full knowledge that his Democrat cohort refused to lessen the blow of ‘meat cleaver’ budgeting.

That means he’s not just a liar, but a cruel and vicious one at that. This goes beyond the usual give-&-take of party politics…he’s turning Americans into his human shields.

And the bully pulpit preserved for him by the media, he’s turned into a Liar’s Pulpit.

Aided by mainstream media, Obama takes abuse of power to dizzying new heights.

Without his CNN-NBC-CBS-ABC-NY Times lapdogs…he wouldn’t even be a good liar.

On his Thursday show, Rush Limbaugh blasted a journalist for bringing up the sequester in the context of the Oklahoma City bombing, as if by comparison.

Rush ridicules the effort in defense of the GOP, as he sees the article to be a sideslap against House Republicans (tarred with the same Tim McVeigh brush, so to speak).

BlueCollar would (humbly) suggest Rush may have missed a glaring point…

Those government workers and kids in the Oklahoma City building were innocent.

So, think of this…even if the Obama-made sequestration involved spending cuts (which it doesn’t), what manner of leader would allow such ‘cuts’ to hurt the most vulnerable?

Obama’s the one deciding where in the budget to apply the ‘meat cleaver’. And, since even the feds admit it only amounts to about $44bn this year (out of $3.555tn, equalling 1.2 cents of every dollar), we’re talking a ‘meat cleaver’ the size of a gnat’s wing.

So the next time you hear Obama warn that sequester cuts mean little kids go hungry, huge job losses, & the elderly lose their healthcare…remember who applied the cleaver! Against the most vulnerable and innocent…

Barack ‘McVeigh’ O’bomber…

That National Journal writer was closer to the point than Rush knew…!