Solving the income inequality puzzle

http://legalinsurrection.com/tag/a-f-branco/

Washington Times   "At the same time, the president’s programs have discouraged the bottom 15 percent from earning income. He essentially gives them a free ride by providing years of unemployment benefits, virtually free health care, and liberal welfare and food stamp benefits. The result has been the classic “the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.”
....
"Bob and Ed are hungry and don’t know how to get food. Jane has been fishing all day and has 10 fish. This represents a very unequal distribution of wealth. The president’s solution would be to take 6 fish from Jane and give three each to Bob and Ed. The distribution is more equal for now, but there are two long-term problems.
"First, Bob and Ed have been made dependent on Jane for food. Second, Jane must catch enough food each day to feed herself and two others. In the long-run, this will not work."  Full article
Hat tip to John Uhrig, Plano, TX
 

Obama and his divisive class warfare.

Obama Still Peddling Class Warfare, Demagoguery and Snake Oil Medicine for What Ails His Sluggish Economy

"If anyone thinks for a moment that the president offered a new way out of the long-stalled economic problems that afflict our country, you can forget.

"This was a deeply political campaign speech laden with class warfare rhetoric about how much wealthier people in the top earn versus those in the middle or at the bottom.
"The nation's frustration with the economy had nothing to do with his own impotent, counterproductive policies, he seemed to be suggesting. "It's rooted in the nagging sense that no matter how hard they work, the deck is stacked against them," he said.

 ....

"Welcome to the Age of Obama where it's only going to get worse."

Class Warfare: The Mortal Enemy Of Economic Growth And Jobs
Actually, the economy suffers when money is taxed away from private individuals and spent by government.  In part, this is because regardless how smart politicians and bureaucrats might be, they have only a miniscule fraction of the total knowledge in a society.  Politicians and bureaucrats tend to have book learning that’s related to academic credentials, whereas specific, practical knowledge needed to make an economy work is dispersed among multitudes of ordinary people.  This includes knowledge about the best locations for a particular business, individuals most likely to be good employees, changing consumer preferences, the most suitable business models, technologies and so on.

 

Obama is not a Pathological Liar, He is an Ideological Liar  "From a child-rearing standpoint, Dr. Phil may agree:

"People do what works. If lying has gotten your child what he wants while escaping accountability from you, the payoff is a luring incentive to continue. It's a parent's responsibility not to let it continue by creating consequences."

"Parents" in Democrat's case would be the press.

MSNBC’s Alternative Universe; What passes for journalism on the network is downright silly.

Charles C. W. Cooke  ...." During the election, Pew added, the ratio of unfavorable to favorable treatment in stories on candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on MSNBC “was roughly 23-to-1; the negative-to-positive ratio on Fox News was 8-to-1.”

 '“Biased” doesn’t cut it. To watch MSNBC for an afternoon is not so much to be given a slanted account of what is happening here in America, but instead to witness a series of discussions about current events in parallel America II — a rather silly place in which the political center of gravity and all things Good are defined by the preferences of the faculty at Berkeley and the comments section of the Daily Kos and in which anyone who dissents from this position is believed to possess two heads, a black heart, and a pocket copy of Mein Kampf...."

Belligerent Zeke Emanuel Again Helps the Anti-Obamacare Cause in Sunday Chris Wallace Interview

Newsbusters  "Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace was not in the mood to put up with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's standard-issue leftist guff on Sunday (video here). Last night, I noted that the pressed Emanuel until he forced a "yes" out of him to a simple question: "Didn't he (President Obama) say, 'If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.'" That move brought out Emanuel's ridiculous contention that what Obama somehow really meant was, "If you want to pay more for an insurance company that covers your doctor, you can do that. This is a matter of choice." Everyone but you and a few deluded leftists know that isn't so, Zeke.

"A good example of Wallace standing up to what amounted to a bullying attempt by Emanuel, followed by a couple of other howlers delivered by Zeke the Bleak, are after the jump."
Video.

... "It would be nice if more interviewers of leftist prevaricators stood up to leftist blowhards as Wallace did to Emanuel.
"Immediately following this exchange, Zeke went to the "Blame Bush" tactic ..."

Doctors boycotting California's Obamacare exchange

Washington Examiner  "An estimated seven out of every 10 physicians in deep-blue California are rebelling against the state's Obamacare health insurance exchange and won't participate, the head of the state's largest medical association said.
“'It doesn't surprise me that there's a high rate of nonparticipation,” said Dr. Richard Thorp, president of the California Medical Association."
....
"California offers one of the lowest government reimbursement rates in the country -- 30 percent lower than federal Medicare payments. And reimbursement rates for some procedures are even lower.

"In other states, Medicare pays doctors $76 for return-office visits. But in California, Medi-Cal's reimbursement is $24, according to Dr. Theodore M. Mazer, a San Diego ear, nose and throat doctor.

"In other states, doctors receive between $500 to $700 to perform a tonsillectomy. In California, they get $160, Mazer added."

calwatchdog.com

USS Arizona: Cost of war hidden at Pearl Harbor

USS Arizona - National Park Service Study - Archeological Record

statesmanjournal.com  ... "As the visitor peers into the water on either side of the memorial, the Arizona, with its superstructure long gone, starts to take shape. There’s the mount for one of its giant guns; oil still rises slowly to the surface from the ship’s fuel bunker, which has been leaking for 72 years.

"Hidden in the depths of the hull are the bunks, the ammunition magazines, the offices, the shops and the chow line; the narrow passageways, the steep ladders, the hatches and watertight doors that never had a chance to do their job — all those places that are so familiar to every sailor — and a thousand men entombed in the ship that was their home, their workplace and their pride.

 USS Arizona (Inside the Wreck!!)

 

Early photos of USS Arizona

 

The USS Arizona website

Below: Early crew photo of the Arizona

Legal Insurrection update:"HILARIOUS! MSNBC Crank Argues “Obamacare” Is the New N-Word"

The Gateway Pundit  via Far North Dallas Tea Party Patriots
"Too funny.
"MSNBC crank Melissa Harris-Perry tries her darnedest to equate the word “ 'Obamacare” with the n-word.
"This was so pathetic it was hilarious:" 

 

"The Daily Caller reported

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry suggested the term “Obamacare” and the N-word are interchangeable, claiming both were “conceived by a group of wealthy white men who needed to . . . render [a black man] inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.”

Is MSNBC capable of embarrassment?

UPDATE from Legal Insurrection: No, Melissa Harris-Perry, “Obamacare” was not conceived by rich white men
"Actually, “Obamacare” as a term was concieved by a woman who used it to compare to other health care proposals, to which she also appended the term “care” to the politician’s name, as The Atlantic reported in October 2011, Who Coined ‘Obamacare’?"

 

USA Today update: Obama embraces the term 'Obamacare'  

" 'The Affordable Care Act -- also known as Obamacare," Obama said to applause from backers at the University of Denver.
" 'I actually like the name," he added. "Because I do care -- that's why we fought so hard to make it happen.' "

‘LOVE!’ Christmas chortles! Brit Hume scores with ‘holiday tree’ photo-slam

Twitchy  "Simply beautiful! Fox News’ Brit Hume scored once again with that hilarious Photoshop. It has been retweeted nearly 900 times and counting."

Brit Hume        ✔ @brithume Follow

Hard not to smile at this: pic.twitter.com/d6EUcP7fZw”

Conservatives hijack fast food workers protest across America

BizPac Review
"Organized labor advocates targeted fast food restaurants across America on Thursday, calling for an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
"An eager media looking for a reason to turn away from the disastrous roll out of Obamacare advertised the day’s activities as a one day strike for higher wages by fast food workers."

"In reality, there were far more left-wing activists “on strike” than there were fast food workers, and these union agitators turned to Twitter to help draw attention to their efforts, using the hashtag: #FastFoodStrikes.

"Not a smart move, considering how thoroughly the right dominates Twitter.
Conservative comedian Stephen Kruiser was quick to hijack the hashtag, with his own take on the effort “to keep workers in entry-level jobs,” as described by Twitchy.com:"

@stephenkruiser Follow

Thank you, #FastFoodStrikes, for showing us where the next wave of automation in business needs to take place.

 

 

 

SFK @stephenkruiser Follow

"Mindless chanting Occucommies alert! RT @NBisno Mic check at McDonald's downtown Pittsburgh #fastfoodstrikes

Your 2013 Christmas Naughty or Nice Preferred Retailer Shopping List

A View from the Right 

 

"You will find the latest updates to the “Naughty or Nice” Christmas retailer list at American Family Association’s website where they make regular updates to this list. The focus on this list is to support those retailers who support the Christian reason for the holiday rather than those who have made the naughty list and refuse to acknowledge the reason for the holiday while using it to move their yearly earnings out of the red and into the black. In past years I’ve been shocked at some of the Christmas retailers who made the “Naughty List”. One that shocked me the most was finding that Nascar had made the naughty list when you consider just who their fan base is. This year I am not seeing Nascar mentioned, but would hope AFA would find their position on Christmas and add them into one of their lists so Nascar fans can be informed as to their current position on the holiday.

 

American Family Association  List updated on 11-25-13

Companies For "Christmas" AFA Online Store ACE Hardware Amazon.com Banana Republic Bass Pro Shops Bed Bath & Beyond Belk Big Lots Books-A-Million Cabela's Collective Brands Costco Dick's Sporting Goods Dillards Dollar General Dollar Tree Gap, Inc. H.E.B. Stores HSN.com Hallmark Hancock Fabrics Harris Teeter Stores Hobby Lobby Home Depot Home Shopping Network JCPenney JoAnn Fabrics Kmart Kohl's Kroger L.L. Bean Lowe's Macy's Marshalls Meijer Menard's Michael's Stores Neiman Marcus Nordstrom Office Max Old Navy Pier One Imports ProFlowers.com Publix QVC.com Rite Aid Sam's Club Sears Scheels Sporting Goods Super D Drug Target TJ Maxx Toys R Us Wall's Wal-Mart Zappos.com

Companies marginal on "Christmas" 1-800-Flowers.com Bath & Body Works Best Buy Cooking.com CVS Pharmacy Fred's Hy-Vee Stores Safeway Starbucks True Value UncommonGoods.com Walgreens Whole Foods

Companies AGAINST "Christmas" Barnes & Noble Family Dollar Foot Locker Limited Brands Maurice's Office Depot Pet Smart Radio Shack -BOYCOTT! See more Staples Supervalu Victoria's Secret

"We continually update the list, so check back often."

 

"As a Christian I recommend making a note and spending your Christmas Holiday shopping dollars wisely by supporting those who support the true meaning of Christmas."

Reading list for a cold day

donkeyhotey

Patriot Act author: Obama’s intel czar should be prosecuted   ... "The intelligence director said he tried to give the "least untruthful" answer he could without revealing classified information."
....
"Sensenbrenner, a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is pushing the USA Freedom Act, which would limit the NSA's power, tighten oversight and end the bulk collection of phone records.
"He was the original author of the Patriot Act in 2001, which the NSA has cited when filing secret court requests to conduct surveillance."

Krauthammer: Democrats will rue vote on the nuclear option (Video)  "Krauthammer suggested the Senate's nuclear option was retaliation for the criticism Democrats dealt with from the GOP for the fumbled rollout of ObamaCare.
" 'They do want to have the power to at least put some judges in because they are losing from all other elements of their agenda," he said. "But the Republicans will return the favor in the future.' "

JFK and a Silly Little Communist  
“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy, Nov. 22, 1963

... "The real conspiracy about the Kennedy Assassination is the myth built by the left that sinister right wing forces cut down the young president – when it was really just a silly little Communist."

Now Democrats are not limited to blaming a single political philosophy; they can make nearly half the American electorate the villains, which TV shows such as Law [and] Order did readily.

 George Will: ‘The Education of This President Is a Protracted and Often Amusing Process’. "...- as it was this week - as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery. He's alighting on what is obvious to governors. This is really why we should have governors more often than senators as president."
 

"Actually, it might be amusing for commentators, but it's not amusing for Americans to watch a president in his second term still learning the basics about how our government works.
"This is indeed why we rarely in our history elect senators as president and instead rely on governors that have demonstrated an ability to govern.
Unfortunately, the media didn't care about this in 2008 as they aided and abetted the election of a junior senator from Illinois with absolutely no qualifications for the highest office in the land other than being a charismatic Democrat that they fell in love with.
"What might end up being sadder is it looks like after eight years of this failed experiment they're going to back another Democrat they're in love with who also has no experience running anything.
"Are liberal media members capable of learning from their mistakes?"

 

Impeachment Lessons; The Nineties taught us it’s not guilt that matters; it’s political will.

A lesson in government that must be heeded:

rogueoperator

Andrew C. McCarthy  .... "Not only is impeachment the intended constitutional remedy for systematic presidential lawlessness; it is, practically speaking, the only remedy.

"It is beyond cavil that the president is willfully undermining the constitutional system that he swore to preserve, protect, and defend. He presumes to rewrite, and dramatically alter, the laws he vowed to execute faithfully — not once in a blue moon but as a deliberate scheme of governance."
....
"Today’s Democrats, however, are less members of a party than of the movement Left. Their objective, like Obama’s, is fundamental transformation of a society rooted in individual liberty and private property to one modeled on top-down, redistributionist statism. " ....

I'm sure foremost in the minds of those who consider impeachment of this president is knowing there will be "Rodney King" rioting in the streets of this now-third-world nation. Nelson Mandela could heal a nation, but Obama can only divide one.

The Idles of the Boy-King

At the apex, a monumental throne was being assembled, and upon it, a sculpted image of the boy king. The humongous frontispiece was to become a wonder to behold: a behemoth in the midst of the desert to remind the slaves and wanderers of the all-seeing eye of the majestic sovereign. And surrounding the gigantic structure as far as the eye can see were to be lines and lines of towering, whirling windmills....

Ronbosoldier at Before its News