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Wouldn't you like to be a politician?

Sun Journal

by Andy Rooney

October 31, 2009

This year, the salary for the mayor of New York is $195,000. Next year, the job will pay $225,000. Most of us could squeak by on $195,000, but Mayor Bloomberg doesn't take his pay, except for $1 a year.

The president of the United States, on the other hand, is paid $400,000 a year. Now, $400,000 is real money and keep in mind, the president never has to pay for anything. When the president goes to a banquet or to dinner, do you think he pays for the meal? Of course he doesn't. You and I pay. I'll bet Barack Obama and Michael Bloomberg don't even bother to put money in their pants pocket when they go out at night.

Wow! Who Knew Bill Maher Disliked the Police State this Much? | The Free Thought Project

thefreethoughtproject.com

July 20, 2014

Regardless of your political views or affiliations, recognizing oppressive violence transcends party lines.

The militarization of police affects everyone. Liberals, conservatives, tea partiers, libertarians, socialists, and anarchists agree....the police state is here. With tens of thousands of SWAT raids a year, it is only a matter of time before it's your son, your daughter, your mother or your father, that is victimized by the leviathan that is Police State USA.

Wow: Bomber in Yemen Al Qaeda airplane plot was CIA double agent

Hot Air

by Allahpundit

May 8, 2012

ABC had this story this morning but they hadn't quite nailed down the fact that the double agent who infiltrated AQ was in fact the "bomber" himself.

It was strongly implied - ABC's sources noted that the infiltrator had "control" of the bomb - but it falls to the L.A. Times to connect the last dot. An enormous intel coup, needless to say...

Wow: Dept of Energy still defending their ghastly failure of a loan guarantee program

Hot Air

by Erika Johnsen

July 12, 2012

Because why admit defeat, cut their (our!) losses, and quit trying to pick economic winners and losers when you can keep whining like a little girl and burning through other people's money like there's no tomorrow?

This week, the House GOP unveiled new draft legislation - the aptly-named No More Solyndras Act - which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The bill would phase out the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for clean energy companies, which was expanded through the 2009 stimulus. The Obama DOE has since accumulated an impressive rap sheet of green business ventures that have either gone south or gone completely bankrupt...

Wow: Obama issues 'signing statement' rejecting budget cuts to White House 'czars'

Hot Air

by Allahpundit

April 15, 2011

You didn't seriously think he was going to abide by the will of Congress, did you?

Such is The One's personal awesomeness that he can order the bombing of Libya without so much as a heads up to the legislature in advance. Surely he wasn't about to be tripped up by a duly enacted bill that dares to cut off the money he uses for his auxiliary cabinet.

Wrong Medicine for a Sick Economy

The American Spectator

by Ralph R. Reiland

September 27, 2011

Straighforwardness has never been more out of control.

"Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires," repeatedly proclaims President Obama, arguing for his proposed $1.5 trillion tax increase over the next 10 years. "That's pretty straightforward. It's hard to argue against that." In fact, Mr. Obama's statement is anything but straightforward and not hard to argue against.

WSJ: How about coffee and gym-membership employer mandates, too?

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

March 12, 2012

Well, why not?  Sexual activity is as voluntary as drinking coffee and going to the gym, and at least the latter has potentially profound implications for long-term health.

While the federal government demands that employers provide free contraception and sterilization to their employees on demand, why not mandate a bunch of goods and services that have beneficial effects? Allysia Finley offers her modest proposal in today's Wall Street Journal in response to the immodest diktat of the Obama administration...

WSJ: Let's not forget Obama's already-imposed new taxes

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

July 11, 2011

The Wall Street Journal can barely believe that Barack Obama made $1 trillion in new taxes the cost to Republicans for raising the debt ceiling and making cuts in federal spending.

Obama keeps saying that he has cut taxes, but the Journal reminds people that Obama has raised taxes, too - and in key ways that impact capital. The ObamaCare bill will raise taxes in a number of unpleasant ways, all in support of vast new federal spending and regulatory adventurism, with these just a few of the worst...

WSJ: Millions fraudulently claimed eligibility for federal phone subsidies

Hot Air

by Erika Johnsen

February 12, 2013

Steel yourselves, because this egregious revelation may very well shock you...

A well-meaning but perhaps overly ambitious federal assistance program that offers a taxpayer-subsidized benefit and does not have rigorous eligibility requirements, was fraudulently taken advantage of by millions of people. (I'll pause here a moment to let you recover.) The Wall Street Journal reports that, of the $2.2 billion the federal government spent to provide low-income Americans with phones in 2012 alone, more than 40 percent of the programs recipients never actually proved that they were eligible to receive the benefit.

WSJ: Nearly half of U.S. lives in household receiving government benefit

Michelle Malkin

by Doug Powers

May 27, 2012

A ten percent increase from 2008.

Instead of showing signs of reversing from this unsustainable course (unfortunately sustainability is mostly only a concern in the environmental sense), the trend is only picking up speed...

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