Maliki Kalikimaka RTP&GGrs!

And Happy New Years too!  2012 looks to be an exciting year as we see whether our country can turn around or whether the Mayan End-of-the World prophesy comes true.

We're off to Hawaii to see Decoy & Candy Cane.  See you next year!

Best Small Government-Big Freedom Wishes to all RTP&GGrs

16,400,000,000,000

The new debt limit is sixteen point four trillion dollars or 1.64X10^13.

The Obama administration will ask Congress to raise the nation's borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion this week, marking the third and final increase from a deal negotiated over summer.[...]

In August, Congress and the administration agreed to raise the borrowing limit by $2.1 trillion in three steps. The deal was reached hours before a potential default on the nation's debt and only after the parties also agreed to cut more than $2 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years.

Those two trillion dollars in "cuts" are not real cuts.

Both parties tell us that the debt-limit deal includes $2 trillion in spending cuts, and the national media dutifully reports that those cuts are severe, yet the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) tells us that we are still on course for the national debt to increase by $8 trillion over the next 10 years. Why doesn’t the discussion over the federal budget, spending and debt in Washington make any sense?

It is called baseline budgeting. Here is how the hocus pocus works. The CBO assumes a “baseline” for federal spending over the next 10 years that includes federal spending increases of $9.5 trillion over that time. Any increase in those 10 years of less than $9.5 trillion will be reported by CBO as a cut in federal spending.

Also the government just released some numbers

That professionalism is evident in the GAO analysis of the net present value of the Social Security and Medicare promises Washington has made to Americans. “Net present value” means the total that would have to be set aside today to pay the costs of these programs in the future. The government puts these numbers in appendices, rather than in headlines. But the costs are real.

In fiscal 2011, the cost of the promises grew from $30.9 trillion to $33.8 trillion. To put that in context, consider that the total value of companies traded on U.S. stock markets is $13.1 trillion, based on the Wilshire 5000 index, and the value of the equity in U.S. taxpayers’ homes, according to Freddie Mac, is $6.2 trillion. Said another way, there is not enough wealth in America to meet those promises.

Bottom line: the nation is headed for a debt crisis, the Republicans have failed to cuts spending as promised and there is no viable Republican candidate for president that plans to cut spending of the magnitude necessary to prevent the looming debt crisis, and there is extremely little possibility of the debt being reduced in the future as to do so would mean a depression.

We Have A Commie In Our Midst

I come to you today to declare and warn you that we have a communist, red, socialist in our midst. I levy this most unfortunate charge after much consideration and research over the course of several years. Whether it is supporting international organizations, such as the IMF and the World Bank that were created to advance socialism throughout the world-- indeed these organizations were founded and shaped by a socialist and a communist so it is no wonder that these organizations help to promote world -wide socialism; the spirited defense of such organizations using well crafted attacks used by free market detractors, namely asymmetric information and perfect competition (he even had me fooled); allaying our concerns over these organization's growing powers saying that "... IOs are good because the only ones that have succeeded or will succeed will be in our net interest", but we have seen how this turned out; supporting the government gaining control over the internet through the FCC regulations ; his love for rock music and his well crafted support for ending the drug war; this man has been slowly advancing with Karl Marx through his long, corrupting march through America's institutions--to include this blog-- helping to corrupt the very foundation of our free society and our belief in the free market of those of us on this blog. This man is none other than MelMarx codename Melkor. This case will be laid out over the coming year/s.

Commentary from Berlin on the Republican Primary

I think this pundit has a good handle on the state of the Republican primaries:

Click on the YouTube button to see it on big screen.  It's not funny unless you can read the subtitles.  Hitler bags on the Tea Party too much, but otherwise, spot on.

Commenting Policy Change

Our few annoying commentors have left us, and Blogspot now has an annoying problem with gmail accounts, so I am enabling unmoderated commenting for now.  We'll see how it goes.  Comments on two week old or older posts will still be moderated, just so we'll be aware that someone is posting.

Silly Ron

As of right now, I am a Ron Paul supporter. I believe that he would be the best president out of the field of candidates. His electability is more in question to me because of this Hot Air article. Pay particular attention to the second bold paragraph which talks about his "racist comments". In his newsletter named Ron Paul Political Report, it was quoted to have said, in regard to the 1992 LA riots, “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.” There are also some other racy quotes in the article.

Paul's electability was already in question because of his radical ideas. His opponents are certain to disclose his newsletter's comments if Paul makes it to the general election. This almost garauntees Obama's 99% black vote (exaggeration) to go to 100%.

I will still vote for him because I think he is the best candidate. I would bet all my money that he won't get elected. After all, who wouldnt elect a man like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&list=UU67f2Qf7FYhtoUIF4Sf29cA&v=igQlbesF0zA

Asian Ascendency continued

An article in The Australian discusses India's reaction to China's rise and its threat to India.  More argument to the idea that China is surrounded by powerful rivals.

Cops getting too much power?

Fool! Resistance is futile!

Cops arrested a "separatist" family for not turning over cattle who wandered on their land.

I don't like this. I guess it is inevitable that local law enforcements will start using UAV's against their citizens. I don't like it though. The war on terrorism is turning our country in to a police state.

If this article is accurate on the alledged crime, I don't blame the family for doing what they did. If someone's cattle came on to my land then I should be able to do what I want to it. If my neighbors chickens start digging, eating, and shitting in my yard, I should be able to kill and eat them.

I'm not sure, but the local law enforcement could have violated the Posse Comitatus Act. According to Wikipedia, the Posse Comitatus Act " limits the powers of local governments and law enforcement agencies from using federal military personnel to enforce the laws of the land." I thought that the predator drones were designated for terrorists and smugglers across the borders.