And now the Feds want to ban fishing
Just when you think the current administration has done all they can do to impose their will onto our lives, yet another one of their agendas comes to light. This time in the form of fishing, or more specifically, a law to ban it.
This may sound absolutely ridiculous, but it is true. The Obama administration, in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is attempting to prohibited the citizens of America from fishing the oceans and coastlines and the Great Lakes. As far as inland lakes, let’s just say these have not been ruled out of their decision for the ban either.
To read up on the plan, here is the Interim Report Of The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force.
Notice how this is dated Sept. 17, 2009? Great transparency on this one, eh? And is it a coincidence that now this story is making it out to the general public, the administration will no longer accept public input on this matter? This is the politically correct way of saying “We don’t need your input because we know what is best and you don’t”.
Now I am all for rules and regulations to preserve our lakes and the oceans. But we all know this administration’s actions reach well beyond the point of logic. To say a ban on public fishing will solve all problems that exist is absolutely ridiculous. This plan lumps together recreational fishing with commercial fishing, pretending they are similar enough to be considered one in the same. It is true commercial fishing is a profit driven business that does not necessarily value our natural resources the way they should. But to say regulations that will protect our waters from the commercial fishing industry should be placed on recreational fishing is nothing short of moronic.
It goes to show this administration cares only about their idea of a ‘perfect’ American and not the lives of the Americans they are elected to represent. And in their eyes, the perfect America means bans on fishing.
Total Compensation, Federal Gov’t Style
If it is a great wage and a phenomenal benefits package you desire in a job, don’t waste your time working in the private sector. Pursue a job with the federal government.
From a USA Today report: “Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations” in 2008 (the most recent data available). And the USA Today also points out an even more disturbing fact. In 2008, the value of health, pension and other benefits equaled $40,875 per employee, compared to $9,882 per private sector employee.
Naturally, those associated with the federal employees will have an excuse why these federal jobs pay more than the national average in the private sector. Supposedly the talent and skill level required to work at the federal level is much higher. I guess this clears up why a laundry/dry cleaning worker earns over $13,000 more working for the feds as compared to the laundry/dry cleaning workers you and I have access to.
But what happens when you throw in the benefits package? After all, this is part of the total compensation package, is it not? Let’s do the math.
Federal employee average = $40,875
Private sector employee = $9,882
Total additional compensation above wage = $30,993
Huh……………….
Maybe the overpaid laundry/dry cleaner isn’t making over $40,000 a year in benefits. But someone is making a boatload in this area. Way more than you or I, I can say that for sure.
The fact our tax dollars are going toward overpaying federal employees as compared to the national average is bad enough. But throw in a benefits package that averages more than four times what the private sector can pay……….
It’s no wonder why our country is in such bad fiscal shape. Call it compensation, federal government style.
Charles Krauthammer ‘Tells It like it Is’
Charles Krauthammer tells it like it is with his take on Obama’s ‘Yes We Can’ slogan. “Yes we can means yes I can do anything I damn well please if I have the one vote majority”.
Giving away America
Obama wants to give a free pass to the 10.8 million illegal immigrants living in America with his “Path Toward Citizenship”. Apparently he is feeling pressure from immigrants to follow up on his promise to tackle the immigration issue and give amnesty to the illegals.
Does anyone else see something wrong here? What part of ‘illegal’ does Obama and the left not understand? Just because people have been breaking our laws for a long time doesn’t mean they should be rewarded for it. Citizenship is a reward that is earned, not given.
I work with quite a few people who came here from other countries. Here are two examples of people who came to America the right way. They learned English, they learned about our history, they learned our laws, and they became part of our culture and left their culture behind.
One left Burma in his young 20’s to pursue the American dream. He went through the process and became a citizen on July 4, 1976, which also happens to be his birthday. He came to America so he and his family would have a chance in life, a chance they could not have in Burma. If you ask him his nationality, he will tell you he is an American. Ask him about amnesty, and you will get an earful.
Another man came here from Iran, where grew up seeing people shot in the street. He also pursued the American dream for himself and his family by becoming a citizen according to our laws. Ask him his nationality, and he will say he is American.
I could give many more examples, but these two pretty much sum up all the stories I have heard. But there is one more story that makes me understand how great our country is. This one came from a man from India that was working in America on a visa. It’s not like he was young and came here to study at one of our universities. He was middle aged, married, and well established in India. To make a long story short, I was talking to him about two months before he was to return to India for good. I asked him if he was happy to go back home, and he looked me in the eye and said “You think of heaven and hell as above and below (in the biblical sense), I think of heaven and hell as here and there. America is heaven”.
My point here is this. America is the greatest country in the world because we have the greatest culture in the world. If we give amnesty to the people that are here illegally, we are not only accepting them into our country, but also their culture. And we cannot let that happen.
We need to let our government know we will not let them give America away. Our culture, our society, and our way of life depends on it.
Paul Ryan, the voice for America
For all of you who have been following this blog since it’s inception a year and a half ago, you know I have been saying Paul Ryan is the politician to keep an eye on. And it looks like the media is finally starting to keep an eye on Paul Ryan as well.
The Wall Street Journal: Paul Ryan v. the President
‘Every argument has been made. Everything that there is to say about health care has been said, and just about everybody has said it,” President Obama declared yesterday as he urged Democrats to steamroll his plan through Congress. What hasn’t been heard, however, is even a shred of White House honesty about the true costs of ObamaCare, or its fiscal consequences.
Nearby, we reprint Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan’s remarks at the health summit last week, which methodically dismantle the falsehoods—there is no other way of putting it—that Mr. Obama has used to sell “reform” and repeated again yesterday. No one in the political class has even tried to refute Mr. Ryan’s arguments, though he made them directly to the President and his allies, no doubt because they are irrefutable. If Democrats are willing to ignore overwhelming public opposition to ObamaCare and pass it anyway, then what’s a trifling dispute over a couple of trillion dollars?
In a time when politicians are scrambling to make themselves look good in a bad time, Paul Ryan is standing up for us. He doesn’t care about being in the spotlight. He doesn’t care about making his fellow politicians happy. Paul Ryan only cares about doing the job he has been elected to do.
I would love to see the Tea Party embrace Ryan. If you ask me, he was the Tea Party before the Tea Party became a household name. He is one of us. Let’s show him the support he deserves!!
36,000 lost jobs is a good day?
“Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.”
Yeah, that is Harry Reid. And yeah, he is feeling good about the fact that 36,000 more Americans are out of work. That 36,000 people now have to face life without a paycheck, wondering how they are going to pay their bills. How they are going to put food on the table. How they are going to find a job when jobs are extremely scarce. How long their savings can last before they run out. 36,000 more people who will have to face a life full of anxiety, wondering and worrying how they will make ends meet. Facing the realization that everything they have worked for may slowly be diminished to nothing and they will have to start all over again.
It’s obvious Reid has never had to face anything like this in his life. For a man to stand up and say something like this while he is making $174,000 a year is beyond insulting. Hopefully he will also be out of a job soon by losing the next election, but I highly doubt unemployment will have the same effect on him as it does on the average American.
A Democrat clinging to his guns? Yeah, but whatever
John Patrick Bedell shot two security guards at a Metro station by the Pentagon. He also appears to be an extremist that has ranted against a President.
Sound like the opening line by the main stream media that will eventually say Bedell is a right wing extremist?
This shooting has all the makings of a dream story for the MSM. The only problem is Bedell is a registered Democrat and his rants were focused on Bush.
I could go on and on about the way the MSM decides to portray the people they cover in stories. But that would be like beating a dead horse. Instead, I invite you to check out Michelle Malkin’s site:
Michelle is right. Playing ‘gotcha’ with the MSM? Nah, not on this one. Although I’m sure the opportunity will present itself again (and again and again).
Dylan Ratigan loses it!!! BTW who is Dylan Ratigan?
Talk about letting emotion rule the moment!! Dylan Ratigan conducts one of the most pathetic interviews I’ve seen in a long time. While interviewing Tea Party leader Mark Williams, Ratigan decides it is much more important to interview his own inner aggressions than it is to let Mark Williams say anything. Can you say major issues?
Ratigan went off on Williams and the Tea Party movement by saying anyone who supports the Tea Party wants to kill blacks and Jews (complete fabrication by the left). Then, when he is not happy that Williams is not answering the questions the way he wants, Ratigan walks off his own show for a brief moment before coming back and ending the interview by having Williams microphone turned off! At this point, Williams just says “Okay, see ya” while Ratigan continues his hissy fit.
By the way, who is Dylan Ratigan? I have to say, I’ve never heard of this guy before. I guess there is a good reason he can only get a job on MSNBC. I can’t imagine any legitimate organization allowing these types of idiotic racist accusations from one of their hosts. One part of me found Ratigan to be absolutely hilarious as he made a fool of himself. Another part of me could only think of the hate Ratigan is trying to spread.
Wall Street plus a Democrat controlled gov’t equals record profits and bonuses
If you have listened to the MSM over the last decade or so, you would have heard about the Republican’s tight relationship with Wall Street. Too bad for you a few facts have been left out:
The wealthy securities and investment industry … went from giving 2 to 1 to Democrats at the start of 2009 to providing almost half of its donations to Republicans by the end of the year. (source: The Washington Post )
Notice anything odd about the above fact? The giving went from 2 to 1 in favor of Democrats to almost 50/50 between Dems and Republicans, which means the Dems have been receiving way more money over the last year than the Republicans. Oddly enough, this coincides with the Savior, aka Obama, taking office.
I love the line in the Washington Post article about how “commercial banks and high flying investment firms” are moving away from the Dems because of their tough talk on bonuses, profits and stingy lending policies. But didn’t the left talk a tough game on these subjects before 2009? Didn’t Obama speak out strongly against Wall Street and their practices during his run for POTUS? The answer is yes he did. His promise of taking a tough stand against Wall Street helped him get elected. But somehow once he walked into the Oval Office it must have become okay for elected officials (aka his political party) to accept all sorts of money from the evil Wall Street people. Oh yeah, and to top it all off, bonuses for Wall Street went up 17% in comparison to 2008 and profits hit an all time high last year.
When Bush was in office, we heard story after story about the evil Republicans allowing record bonuses and profits for Wall Street, which the MSM and the left said was proof that all Bush and Co. cared about was making sure the rich got richer. Now that the Savior of the Left is in office, Wall Street gets a bailout and makes more money than ever before. And the complaints from the left and the MSM? (silence……….)
James T. Harris tells it like it is
James T. once again tells it like it is. He appeared on Fox and Friends on Sunday, Feb. 28th to say what many of us conservatives believe. James was not given the same treatment CNN and MSNBC would give to a liberal appearing on their network. Instead he had to answer real questions and stand up for his point, defending the beliefs so many of us Americans hold true.
For anyone who doesn’t know about James T. Harris, check out his blog: National Conversation and listen to his weekend radio show on 620 WTMJ in Milwaukee WI or over the internet via WTMJ.
