Comments on: Gaines duo resonates with Tea Party in EDH

By: 1036-Frank

1036-Frank — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:17:19 +0000

Jim, I hope there will always be a good old fashioned conservative values state to move to where taxes are low and freedom is high. Right now Texas seems to be collecting a lot of people who I can guess are carrying their California license plates in a paper sack and quietly approaching the DMV counter while glancing around very nervously. The way I see it the states are going to be few that have the values we used to have here, probably a half dozen Rocky Mtn states a few southern states and Texas thrown in and a couple in the mid west will be the last where freedom will still be present. Many people I know already went back home to the states they left so many years ago when they came here for jobs in aerospace and defense.

By: Jim Riordan

Jim Riordan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:19:35 +0000

1036, I have been watching people move to texas as well. I sold one of my planes to a texan. Great GOB ex investigator for a DA. I really enjoyed him a lot and we had a lot of laughs. I liked the Texas law and order concepts. I kept communicating with him and the only thing that made me think twice about Texas are the sand storms and then the huge rainstorms that poor guy kept getting hit with. Later, I drove the southern route east to west through texas and it seemed as though the rural was downright desolate and the cities were packed corner to corner. I sure do like it in Cameron Park and hope we have a good number of years before it becomes urban.

By: 1036-Frank

1036-Frank — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:19:56 +0000

The last part of the article is perhaps the most important. Every person is asking the same question while witnessing the liberal meltdown of the state, why stay? When can they get out? this is not just being asked, it is being acted on. In one Texas town 200 people A DAY of ex-Cal people are showing up. The few who will be left to face Moonbeam’s early released unmonitored horde of felons and their daily crime waves combined with huge new welfare state taxes will stay only long enough to let the real estate values rise or until retirement kicks in then they are gone taking their tax revenue with them leaving a higher burden on the few who pay taxes who remain. The libs are going to have their paradise all to themselves soon and I can only imagine what it will be in a few years.

By: Michael Miro

Michael Miro — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:03:21 +0000

Beth and Ted –
Bless your hearts for being our voice, “crying out in the wilderness”! Only you’ve got considerably more horsepower! So please! Keep up the good fight!

We’re with you!

By: goldy

goldy — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:42:53 +0000

He’s kinda scary looking.

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:54:38 +0000

Jim, this is an interesting piece on what happens when the government sector makes all of its own rules. It isn’t long but it is telling. http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/civil_rights_and_the_collapse_of_birmingham_ala.html

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:42:49 +0000

They have been proliferating at an extraordinary rate since 1992.

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:33:31 +0000

Evelyn, the non-profits are an old scam. Look at it this way. You have a bunch of useless indoctrinated leftists graduating college with a useless degree in liberal arts or some mind melting sociology. They have no marketable skills in the private sector and you can’t let the word get around that those college degrees won’t get you a job. There isn’t room for them in the already over bloated public sector but they are good leftist and need to be placed somewhere dependent on the public treasury so they created non-profits. They become a great source for transfering even more taxpayer money back to the dems in campaign cash, they promote leftist ideology and create a dependable democrat voting block. There are too many of them to count and the majority of them actually accomplish nothing measurable. Acorn was a non-profit, it still is but they changed their name. Excuse my frankness in describing non-profits. I don’t have a lot of patience today.

By: Jim Riordan

Jim Riordan — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:03:28 +0000

I agree with both comments Cookie. I also believe there should be no unions in Government. Period. All government jobs (except Law Enforcement and fire) should be open for bid, lowest bidder who holds the correct credentials and an acceptable employment history gets the job. If somone comes along with the same credentials and bids lower, you either have to meet their bid or hand the job over to them. We might actually get rid of a lot of dead weight, get rid of union thugs and find some folks with work ethics to fill the jobs. To me, the unions are as bad as the politicians.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:55:39 +0000

Cookie: There’s much more that — unknowingly — taxpayers are funding. Only recently I’ve discovered that to significant extent we are funding tax-exempt “non-profits”. And in my experience they are no more transparent or accountable than government agencies that we KNOW we are funding. In my experience some appear to be even less accountable than government agencies. The situation is totally out of control. And . . . beyond our control.

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:44:09 +0000

With the federal government at 600+ government agencies and the state of California at 500-some departments, it doesn’t take the new math to determine the California taxpayers are funding 1,100+ government agencies. How can you look people in the eye with a straight face and say “We’re the party of freedom, independence, self-reliance and self-determination. Work hard and it pays off.” Sounds more like leftist-lite to me. Just more proof that we are having all the wrong discussions in this country.

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:36:27 +0000

Was there any discussion on the real issue? “500-some state departments”. I have such mixed thoughts on all of this. Our supposed conservative representatives don’t seem to bat an eye at having so many government departments, but they tell us how hard they are working at making sure all 500-some state departments aren’t wasting any of our money. Let me know when we start elimating government agencies and I will listen to how you have our back. If I sound like I think it is a dog and pony show it is because I do.

By: Jim Riordan

Jim Riordan — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:49:31 +0000

I thank both of you for being there for us. The scenarios you described in this article are why many of us absolutely despise many government agencies. What Government seems to forget is “servitude” went out with Lincoln. I laugh in their face when I read Ted’s statement that, “after Obamacare”, these stupid “lawmakers” are now “recognizing” that there “may be a Doctor shortage”. Well Duh! That is because Doctors who had to pay dearly to get their degree cannot and will not be “regulated” into accepting less for professional services rendered. Good for them. Government could never make me charge less for my services or tell me what to charge for them. I live in a free Country and I will fight for that. Bureaucrats on the other hand have sold-out to a life of dependency and they do not have the “right” to choose what to charge. And they shouldn’t. If they were worth more, they would be earning more in the private sector. . Doctors are not bureaucrats, thank God, so, just like I would, most of them will simply not be “forced labor” for the government and they will simply find other ways of offering their services or other people to offer them to. Remember, these government wanna-be Gods are the same worthless pukes who scream when any budgets or benefits of theirs are cut at all! Then we have the totally worthless Parks department headed by people who cannot even tell us taxpayers, from whom they are stealing the money, how much is coming in and going out, yet they end up with $20 million in the bank which belongs to US Taxpayers. If one of us hid any of THEIR money, we could go to jail. That is where Ruth Coleman should be. IN JAIL. This thieving department should be managed by reputable money managers and accountants instead of the idiots now in charge and those idiots should lose any and all pensions, benefits etc. Obviously these particular bureaucrats can’t even count, so it is no wonder they could not earn an honest living in the private sector. Let me guess, Beth, Ruth Coleman probably “stepped down” and receives full retirement benefits when she and her cohorts should be retiring in jail along with all the Parks Department “officials” who failed to notice a “mere” $20.4 million in overpayments to them. Then when they found it, they tried to hide it, while threatening to close 70 parks in response to budget cuts. No mention of cutting their budget by getting rid of some of their idiots who can’t count, noooo. Instead, they threaten to hurt the very people they are supposed to be helping– park users. You know, the people who PAID for them. They should just let all the “Rangers” go and leave the park gates open. And retain only a small maintenance staff and make ‘em WORK. What they did is pure, intentional theft. These government pukes make me sick. I wish you would introduce legislation that automatically ends all payment of any future benefits to all thieving idiots like this. Allow me to propose a new “scope of service” for them: If they are so dirt stupid that they can’t figure out what funds are coming and going, then they are too dirt stupid to be paid for the “work” they did. Not only should they lose all retirement, they should pay us back their salaries since they did not earn them.