Professor Krugman and others among America's elite blame some of the rage on talk-show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Kinda.
What talk shows have accomplished is they've ended the isolation of many ordinary Americans. When the liberal mainstream media dominated the airwaves, Americans who were against race and sex quotas were made to feel as though they were racists and sexists. We stayed in the shadows.
Americans who were against big government were portrayed as mean-spirited and uncaring. We said nothing.
What talk radio and the massive expansion in non-traditional media have done is not only end the isolation, but more important, the silence amongst ordinary Americans. There are lots more like us!
Krugman says that what we're witnessing is "political craziness." So if you think our borders ought to be secure and think we should have the right to determine who enters our country, then you are politically crazy. Americans who can find nothing in the U.S. Constitution granting Congress the power to take over our health care system are politically crazy. Americans who think a mosque should not be built in the shadows of the Muslim-destroyed World Trade Center are simply religious bigots.
While America's liberal elite have not reached the depths of tyrants such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler, they do share a common vision.
Both denounce free markets and voluntary exchange.
They want control and coercion by the state.
They believe they have superior wisdom to the masses and they have been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us.
They, like any other tyrant, have what they see as good reasons for restricting the freedom of others.
When Obama is not blaming George Bush for his troubles, it is those Evil, Greedy Corporations who are at fault for whatever.
But listen to why Bogen Communications is not hiring:
My company has to write checks for $74,000 so Sally can receive her nominal $59,000 in base pay. Health insurance is a big, added cost: While Sally pays nearly $2,400 for coverage, my company pays the rest — $9,561 for employee/spouse medical and dental. We also provide company-paid life and other insurance premiums amounting to $153. Altogether, company-paid benefits add $9,714 to the cost of employing Sally.
Then the federal and state governments want a little something extra. They take $56 for federal unemployment coverage, $149 for disability insurance, $300 for workers' comp and $505 for state unemployment insurance. Finally, the feds make me pay $856 for Sally's Medicare and $3,661 for her Social Security.
When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally's pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. Bottom line: Governments impose a 33% surtax on Sally's job each year.
Because my company has been conscripted by the government and forced to serve as a tax collector, we have lost control of a big chunk of our cost structure. Tax increases, whether cloaked as changes in unemployment or disability insurance, Medicare increases or in any other form can dramatically alter our financial situation. With government spending and deficits growing as fast as they have been, you know that more tax increases are coming — for my company, and even for Sally too.
— Michael P. Fleischer, president of Bogen Communications Inc. in Ramsey, N.J.
"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project," he said in the recording. But he said most people in America oppose "socialized medicine" when given the choice.
This 50-year-old audio recording of Ronald Reagan speaking out against "socialized medicine" has become a huge YouTube sensation.
Phil Jones admits there has been NO Global Warming since 1995. In fact, there has been a slight COOLING!
And — Data going back 1000 years are "less certain."
That's the guy from from the UK's University of East Anglia and at the center of ClimateGate!
Yes, Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon. Wow, he finally recognizes the Medieval Warming Period? Must be all those SUVs in the 1300s.
So, for 15 years there has been a slight cooling. That is what EPA analyst Alan Carlin said and he was just about tarred and feathered! What hypocrisy.
Now he also admits that this climate crap is NOT a consensus among scientists.
So Al Gore, the debate is NOT over. While you got fat off this hype you fed us, the free ride is OVER! Talk about Fat Cats!
Demand Obama and all his cronies stop that insane taxation policy on energy. Do you really want your electric rates to "skyrocket" as Obama promised?
Hey! That may actually be one promise he keeps LOL
Not good for us though.
There is NO Global Warming, yet we are still in this Looking Glass world where climate terrorists are demanding we pay "climate debt". There is no climate debt, so shut up.
Professor Krugman and others among America's elite blame some of the rage on talk-show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Kinda.
