Sunday Funnies contains 74 photos.
“Two Americans won the Nobel Prize for economics. That’s like the Chinese winning for child day care.” –Jay Leno
The vibe I get from OWS is that they want to take the tax windfall from those darned “banksters” and either distribute it among “the 99 percent” or let the government apply it towards new spending programs. Case in point: Remember the cheery woman in OWS’s official online commercial who called for taxing the rich to fund education? That’s super, but it does little to help us cope with the explosion in mandatory spending that will eventually cannibalize the budget: Medicare, Social Security, interest on the debt, and whatever’s left over for defense. In essence, these people seem to want to build Great Society II just as the government’s begun to crumble in earnest from the weight of Great Society I.
That’s why, as much as I goof on them, I can’t get as worked up about OWS as some of my friends on the right. Despite their alarming radical overtones, they’re basically committed to preserving (and expanding upon) the same unsustainable status quo we have now.
The OWS leftist attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild have issued a threat to the Manhattan courts… drop all the charges against the OWS protestors, or we will clog the courts. Lawyers representing about 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested … Continue reading
Did you know that American taxpayers, through “assessed” dues, account for 22% of the United Nation‘s (U.N.) regular operating budget, and 27% of a separate peacekeeping budget? For comparison, China pays just 3%. The U.N. “proposes” an operating budget in 2012-2013 of $5.5 billion, and that currently employs 10,307 people. In 2010, U.S. payments totaled $3.35 billion, of which $2.67 billion was dedicated to the 16 peacekeeping operations worldwide. Additionally, the U.S. provides voluntarily billions of dollars in contributions for various U.N. agencies. Here is just one example. Continue reading
Sunday Funnies contains 74 photos.
“Two Americans won the Nobel Prize for economics. That’s like the Chinese winning for child day care.” –Jay Leno
Since the Most Wanted is filled up with recent additions, thought I’d throw these one out there for y’all to chew on. Seems that what a certain percentage of the OWS protestors want… a confrontation to help them appear the … Continue reading
Notice how quickly the left’s claimed “neutral” objection to radical politics and lack of compromise and a spirit of revolution has dissipated. Their objection was “neutral,” they maintained, because they weren’t taking a position (they claimed) on the political substance of this or that agenda item; they were just in favor of the supposedly politically-neutral value of incrementalism, bipartisanship, and moderation.