Tag Archives: Incompetence

Utility grid updates and emission controls (infrastructure upgrades) are soon going to cause our monthly electric bills to climb as the power companies will undoubtedly pass the costs onto us. Thanks to government inadequacy in understanding the magnitude of the effort:

During the budget battle, Congress cut $500 million from the program to bring this year’s total to $4.7 billion, down from a high of $5.1 billion in 2010. For next year, the Obama administration requested only $2.6 billion, leaving states with roughly half the assistance they’ve had in the past. The White House rationale relies on the assumption that energy prices will decline, but regulatory filings have indicated the opposite trend is in store.

Looks like this is in addition to expected utility rate increases by 2014.

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Posted in Deficit, Economy, Energy

Tagged Economy, electric rates, Incompetence, Infrastructure, Power utility, Spending, Transparency

Obama Versus Dingy Harry

Posted on October 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

Maybe these two are at odds with each other?

The Obama campaign sent out an email today asking supporters to urge Congress to at least vote on the president’s jobs bill almost immediately after Democratic majority leader Harry Reid blocked a vote on the bill in the Senate.

On the Senate floor today, Republican leader Mitch McConnell asked for unanimous consent to proceed on voting on the bill. Reid, who has struggled to find enough votes for the bill in the Democratic caucus, objected to the motion and killed the opportunity for a vote.

Because the above doesn’t ring true to what Barak said about the GOP holding up his “jobs bill” …….

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Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Politics, Taxes

Tagged Control, Economy, Ethics, Fraud, Incompetence, Intolerance, Jobs, Marxism, Spending

Stupid Is As Stupid Does Part 3

Posted on September 29, 2011 | Leave a comment

Valerie Jarrett said, “The Point of Government Is to Give People a Livelihood so They Can Provide for Their Families.”

And she is a senior advisor to the President? Puh-lease.

Don’t believe this? Video at the link. She said it 9/21/11.

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Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics

Tagged anti-business, Control, Economy, Ethics, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Intolerance, Marxism, Spending

Should Suspending Elections Be Joked About?

Posted on September 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Hhhmm, ask the Democrat Governor, Beverly Perdue, of North Carolina what she thinks about that.

Apparently, she thinks it so important to focus on jobs, she “recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years.”

Later in the article, her press secretary said she was joking.

Tain’t funny, Guv. Apparently, you have to have someone else explain yourself, rather than you.

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Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics

Tagged Ethics, Incompetence, Unconstitutional

Solar Scandal Story Spiked By ABC and NBC

Posted on September 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

They made no mention of the Solyndra execs being questioned during their Friday evening newcasts.
I guess the media folk figured that “invoking the 5th Amendment” at each question posed to those Solyndra execs wasn’t newsworthy. So where did that $545M of our tax money wind up?????? I would think that in itself would be a plenty newswortthy question to warrant some discussion.

Here is some more on this, at Hotairpundit.

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Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Energy, Ethics

Tagged Economy, Ethics, Fraud, Incompetence, Spending, Truth, Unemployment

Medicaid Caps Benefits

Posted on September 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Don Surber nails it in his post – Gazette misses the story.

But the bigger story was this “he received a notice saying he had exceeded his allowable charges.”

So the recipient had to dig up the data to learn the government was getting billed by caregivers that never visited him. Maybe it is too much to expect the government to find such details themselves, but here Don Surber notes the additional fallacy of the presumption on the part of the news paper itself.

That ” … the Gazette noted that this would not happen if we had universal health insurance.” And who would be the source of the universal health insurance?

Obamacare is attempting to be such. It is the government.

In other words, not only would nothing change, it would get even worse.

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Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Death Panels, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Life

Tagged Control, Economy, Ethics, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Intolerance, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional

New Healthcare Rules

Posted on September 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Which one first?

Got asthma? Prepare to have to use new “greener” inhalers. Namely because the EPA is going to ban the use of over the counter inhalers that will enlarge the ozone holes at the planet’s poles. Which means you are back to prescription-only, more expensive, inhalers.

And then, there’s this:
In a proposed rule from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal government is demanding insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients.

I don’t know, sounds strangely familiar to something like, registering all of our bodies, as if we were firearms.

I do not trust these people. At all. How about you?

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Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Death Panels, Deficit, Economy, Environmental, Ethics, Rights, Rule of Law

Tagged Control, Ethics, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Intolerance, Marxism, Spending

UPDATE: An Idiot Judge

Posted on September 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

According to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler, you do not have a fundamental right to consume the food you grow or own or raise.

Really? Wow. According to this nimrod, he would likely think we don’t have the right to breathe, either.

Check out, The Food Renegade, for the rest of the story.

Additional links (since someone complained about the first, but it isn’t broken):

When they asked him to clarify his statement, these were his words:

“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;”
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;”
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice…”
(source)

And

Case 5:10-cv-04018-MWB: FARM-TO-CONSUMER LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, et al., Plaintiffs, versus KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, Secretary, United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., Defendants.

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Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Environmental, Ethics, Food

Tagged Control, Economy, Fraud, Incompetence, Intolerance, Marxism, Unconstitutional