Are We Still On?

Did the Government shutdown (partially since only a quarter of them would have been effected)?

<<knock knock>>

Nope. I guess not.

Darn.

What a deal...

 

So who caved?

The Republicans mostly. In my view.

They got talked down from $100 Billion to $61 to $39Billion.

Obviously, less than $40 billion in cuts is just a piece of seaweed in the vast ocean of federal spending. Everyone can talk about how big a single-year spending reduction this is (and they will-especially the Liberal media), but spending is now so high that what would have been historic even a decade ago is almost trivial now.

The United States accumulates over $3.5 billion in new debt each and every day. That’s more than $2 million per minute.

So this budget deal means 11 days of Interest payments. That’s ALL that was cut.

Talk about a drop in an red ink ocean.

If this is what is going to happen, imagine when it’s not Billions on the chopping block but TRILLIONS.

Old school “negotiations” will not save us for a financial crisis. Period.

The Democrats were squealing like stuck pigs over this, imagine what kind of Armageddon is coming when it comes to the Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget!

I agree with Rep. Michelle Bachmann, “I’m Disappointed”.

Republicans had included language to deny federal money to put in place Obama’s year-old health care law. The deal only requires such a proposal to be voted on by the Democratic-controlled Senate, where it is certain to fall short of the necessary 60 votes.

A symbolic gesture and an empty concession. So what, big deal…

“Unless we act soon, government spending on health and retirement programs will crowd out spending on everything else, including national security. It will literally take every cent of every federal tax dollar just to pay for these programs,” Sen. Paul Ryan said Saturday.

That debate could come soon.

The Armageddon Hysterics to follow!

The Treasury has told Congress it must vote to raise the debt limit by summer. Republicans hope to use this issue to force Obama to accept long-term deficit-reduction measures.

After this deal, I’m am not hopeful of real change, just “politically viable” change. 😦

President Obama: “But beginning to live within our means is the only way to protect those investments that will help America compete for new jobs,” he said.

And given his track record for completely forgetting what he said from one minute to the next…Remember the “new tone”? The Democrats sure as hell don’t.

Or “I’m open to new ideas” that are comfortable to Democrats only.

Or a “summit” where he “listens”. 😦

Where was Minority Leader Former-Queen Pelosi?

She was at George Soros funded socialist event ALL DAY.

“You really can’t split the difference if splitting the difference means half the kids are going to be thrown off Head Start, but not the full number, or that half the home-bound seniors will lose meals,” Pelosi said. “…You can’t just talk about dollars — you have to talk about values.”

The Values of even BIGGER GOVERNMENT and even more Government Control that is…

Just down the road in Boston, a Soros-funded media conference is trying to manipulate that emerging order as well. Close to 350 left-wingers from a variety of organizations are gathering there for the National Conference for Media Reform. (aka The Ministry of Truth)

That “change the world” conference includes two commissioners from the FCC, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bernie Sanders, four Democratic representatives, the head of Columbia University, and assorted left-wing journalist types, from Salon’s Glenn Greenwald to disgraced former MSNBC host David Shuster, who now works for a Soros-funded investigative operation.

The rest of the list reads like a “Who’s Who” of left-wing organizations and talking heads, including the president of PBS, a senior vice president with American Public Media, an Al Jazeera English executive, the president of the Newspaper Guild – CWA and Washington Post columnist Rob Pegoraro.

The left-wing billionaire is helping fund two major conferences that start on the same day, in two different locations just a three hours apart by car. Two liberal events packed into one long weekend. God created the world in six days. Apparently, Soros, who sees himself as “some kind of god,”needs just a long weekend to start remaking today’s world in his image.

The emphasis of both conferences is a familiar one to American voters – change. Soros wants to begin changing the global economy in one event. In the other, his flunkies want to “Change the world. Change the media.”

Now that is change you can believe in. Sadly, those who actually report the news must believe in it because they sure as heck aren’t reporting on Soros or either event. And that’s even though staffers or even executives from Reuters, the Financial Times, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post and other major media outlets are speaking at one event or the other.

But the over-arching theme is getting government to fix the media. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, whose school also includes the well-known and partly Soros-funded Columbia School of Journalism, is one of several speakers advocating for increased government funding for media.

The Ministry of Truth incarnate.

The Ministry of Truth is involved with news media, entertainment, the fine arts and educational books. Its purpose is to rewrite history and change the facts to fit Party doctrine for propaganda effect. For example, if Big Brother makes a prediction that turns out to be wrong, the employees of the Ministry of Truth go back and rewrite the prediction so that any prediction Big Brother previously made is accurate. This is the “how” of the Ministry of Truth’s existence. Within the novel Orwell elaborates that the deeper reason for its existence is to maintain the illusion that the Party is absolute. It cannot ever seem to change its mind for that would imply weakness and to maintain power the Party must seem eternally right and strong.

ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, et al anyone? 😦

Two other speakers, Free Press founder Robert McChesney and co-author John Nichols…they are consistent in wanting U.S. media to be more like it is in Europe and oppose the “fantasy of a free-market solution.”

That’s not surprising. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who is speaking at both conferences, is wildly critical of people who support free markets, or what he calls “free market fundamentalists.” Free markets are directly in opposition with the Soros-funded group think that sees Big Government as merely a starting point for Ever Bigger Government.

This weekend, we get two visions of taxpayer-funded solution, only most in the news media are too short-sighted to see them. (Dan Gainor)

I think that’s why Democrats have such Armageddon feeling about a government shutdown, it’s their drug, their baby. It’s what they live for.

I don’t.

But they want to Force me to.

After all, the Government, and Government power is the end-all and be-all of Liberal Progressive Socialist Utopia.

Machiavelli advised to rulers use most barbarous fear if you want remain on power. Hope is not reliable, man  is very selfish he can revolt against you if his hope is not fulfil but fear of punishment  people not revolt and obey your order without grumble.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”– George Orwell.