Why the Pay Czar is bad...

AAL 2:

So I got a response to my facebook status....

"YAY We're all going to going to make less money! YAY for hope and change (and if you think it's just the rich that are screwed you are sorely mistaken)."

This is in reference to Obama's nomination of a Pay Czar. To "reform" (they used every word they possibly could without admitting it's a "cap") exectutive pay. And what started as a two graph response morphed into a full fledged essay, because I wanted to be as thorough as possible.

Even without going to the fact that revenue and buisness investment and jobs created all increased after the Regan Tax cut lets just think about it terms of President Obama's own words.

His stated goal is to "spread the wealth around," which lead to his campaign promise was not to touch anyone making under $250K/yr (see cu blogword OWL). According to the most recent IRS Data in 2006, The top 5% for income earners ($154K) payed 60% of the income tax despite earning just 37% of the income.

Okay we're going to have to deviate here in the context of President Obama's budget. Obama is going to spend $3,500,000,000,000 (3.5T, but I think we need the zeroes for effect) in the budget approved. Right now our tax revenues are just over $1T. To make up for this shortfall Obama assumes he can raise another 1T by letting the Bush Tax cuts expire (which I obviously question, but will let slide for the sake of argument).

But people in the top 5% are paying an average tax rate of 21% (keep in mind this does not account for any state, local, sales taxes or user fees).

Back to why the Pay Czar is bad,

If they drop the incomes of people in this bracket, that's less income they tax, plus the risk they would then be paying at a lower rate if they fall into a smaller bracket, which seems foolish beacuse these are the people he's counting on for $1T in tax revenue by letting the Bush tax cuts expire. Either they will be paying a percentage on less income, or a smaller percentage on less income, unless Obama is so determined to raise his $1T that he will have to...

1) Raise taxes on the lower brackets (not just the people above the OWL)

2) Print money (which devalues all dollars in circulation, which raises prices, which is essentally a pay cut for everyone).

Both of which would be disasterous for the economy as prices would skyrocket (inflation from printing money, essentially a pay cut for everyone) and would raise unemployment. I believe unemployment hits the least qualified among us first, then paying out unemployment benefits puts a further burden on our budget (not that I'm against all forms of welfare, I'm just stating the fact there is a cost to society for it).

Of course I think the easy solution is not to propose a $3,500,000,000,000 budget in the first place, and give tax cuts to encourage buisnesses to hire and invest. (though admittedly it would probably take a few years to recover from this deficit). However, Obama will likley take the route of higher taxes, because the left generally rejoices in assigning higher percentages to higher income. But in the end, we're staring at inflation, fewer jobs, less pay for lower level jobs, therefore cutting everyone's throats in the end.

Links:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html

http://www.heritage.org/research/budget/bg2249.cfm

Pres. Obama's a hypocrite again...

AAL4:

After chiding buisness execs for using corporate jets for their cross country transportation, and also after chiding people for taking junkets to places like Las Vegas, Pres. Obama is flying the first private jet to sin city to raise money for the biggest sinner in the Senate, Harry Reid.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/05/barack-obama-harry-reid.html

True Observation #2.
The worst sin according to a liberal is hypocracy (Note: rule only applies if the hypocrite is a conservative).

Every left winger in the world delights in the (loosly percieved) hypocracies of conservatives, but President Obama is being blatantly hypocritical here. But I suppose I'm an idiot if I expect a nasty liberal to realize this.

Pirates and Foreign Policy

So I was very excited to find out that three Pirates were shot dead for holding an american ship captain hostage off the coast of Africa on Sunday morning.



Congrats to President Obama for getting a successful conclusion. However, it seems that the Navy's seals orders were only to fire if the hostages life in danger and this directive was not in place until Saturday Morning. This seems to be why the Navy wasn't able to assist the first time the hostage tried to escape.


While I do congratulate President Obama for whatever part he had (which is a matter of wide debate) in getting the best conclusion possible, I think President Obama will need to be judged on how he handles the future.

This threat won't go away and the lives of those that carry aid and goods to that part of the world are in jeopardy. So far we took one captive, where are we goign to keep him. If only there was a prison off our shores for the dangerous enemies of our nation that were still open.

But the point is will Obama take a proactive stance and use the military to make the shipping routes safer, or will he hope this goes away by ignoring it. Unfortunatly I believe one who set a record for voting present is likley to do the latter, but we'll wait and see.

Best of the Media (new cu blogword, new segment described below).

I try and take in the news and opinions I can. This clip comes from the Chris Baker show, 7-11am weekday mornings on KTLK in Minneapolis/St. Paul. It's a funny parody of a famous 70s classic describing Obama's foregin policy as defined by his recent world tour.

http://www.conservativeuncensored.com/media/obamasurrender.mp3
(click above to play with default settings, or right click and select "Save Target As" to download).

Funny Headlines, parable notes...

AAL3:

In currency news on drudgereport today...

BEIJING TO PITCH NEW GLOBAL CURRENCY; DUMP DOLLAR...
FLASHBACK: Kremlin to Pitch New Currency...
NBC's the Office FLASHBACK: Would be regional manager pitches the ShruteBuck motivational tool.

Parable Explained....

So my story about Barney Frank and AIG in my previous post (click here) is designed to make a few points.

1) Barney Frank and the left are absolute moron's. This outrage is so phony over the bonuses, when congress wasn't even supposed to read the bill that passed the bailout in the first place. Furthermore, the amount of the bailout is over 1000 times that of these bonuses, yet every time anyone questioned the wisdom of this plan they were told to "Give Obama a chance."

2) AIG should just give all the money back and go bankrupt. It's either them or the government at this point with this adminstration. The Obama administration keeps proposing $1 Trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) bailouts at the rate of one every few months. What happened here is a cautionary tale to all private buisess that accepting bailouts doesn't mean free money. The price is your soul for socialism, as the Obama adminstration has made it perfectly clear they're going to tell you how much you can people, where you can go on retreats, and how to manage your buisness (even though almost no members of congress have been succesful in the private sector themselves to ANY extent).

Locally Wells Fargo and TCF are starting to get this and they're having second thoughts about signing on to the bailout. They are saying they were strongarmed, but still they should've had the sense to say no.

Rush is Right, and maybe a little wrong...

AAL1:

Shocking title I know, that I would say the Maha Rushie is ever incorrect, we'll get to that later.

First, if you haven't had a chance to see his C-PAC speech, you need to. And if you're a leftist, frankly I dare you.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qtvtBGWgBc

Don't worry, it's a CNN feed for those of you who are allergic to "We Report, You Decide." I couldn't find a "pure feed" searching CNN video, just videos of all their panelists complaining about Rush, no see for yourself type links.

Transcript: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125106.guest.html

Sorry distracted by my SCUM barbs...

Rush on race...
"You know what the cliche is, a conservative: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen of America, if you were paying attention, I know you were, the racism in our culture was exclusively and fully on display in the Democrat primary last year. [Applause]
It was not us asking whether Barack Obama was authentic. What we were asking is: Is he wrong? We concluded, yes. We still think so. But we didn't ask if he was authentically black. We didn't say, as some Southern Christian Leadership Conference leaders said: Barack is not authentic, he's not got any slave blood. He's really not down for the struggle, but his wife is."

Contrary to the what the hate-mongering SCUM would have you believe, it is not the right that has (to paraphrase Dr. King) judged Pres. Obama by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. But to the left everything that can be about race, is about race. Which means there is no honest disagreement with them as long as any critisim is assumed to be racial.

Rush on the role of politicians...
"All politicians including President Obama are temporary stewards of this nation. It is not their task to remake the founding of this country. It is not their task to tear it apart and rebuild it in their image."

This is why conservatives are disgusted with how much Pres. Obama and the liberals (including republicans Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter) are spending. Taking from the earners and giving to the irresponsible. That is not the principle this country was founded on. Obama should not be trying to change this about our nation, but he is.

Wanting Obama to fail...
First off Rush Limbaugh saying "I hope [Obama] fails" is the last line in a context of Obama's plans to change the United States into a socialist nation we don't recognize. Be that as it may, the only problem I have with the language "I hope he fails" is the implication that it's Limbaugh's hope that will make the difference...

At conservativeuncensored.com, we believe that Obama's policies are bad, regardless of who's hoping for what. It doesn't matter if Limbaugh gets 3 wishes from a genie or not. Obama's policies WILL FAIL, regardless of who hopes for it. I think even Limbaugh agrees with that.

Big Budget, the Rich can't support it

AAL2:

A good opinion piece in "The Wall Street Journal"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561551065378405.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

If you don't bother to read it yourself the basic point is raising the taxes of the wealthist 2% of filers will raise nowhere near enough to cover President Obama's budget. Even if the government were to confiscate every nickel the rich had it wouldn't cover it.

Do you know what this means?

It means we're going further in the deficits for which Pres. Obama criticized Pres. Bush. Otherwise, Obama's going to have to raise taxes on more than just the people above the OWL. Either way he's lied and he is going to hurt the economy.

True Observations (New CUB, defined below)....
As an occasional feature conservativeuncensored.com is going to develop a collection of observations to highlight flaws in liberal thought with conservative thinking.

Observation #1...
"Tax the rich" policies achieve nothing except satisfying the vengance that the bitter and jealous have toward our nations best producers.

Obama's Tax Cuts for the Wealthy!

2nd Day of the Dependent States of America...
AAL1 (I'm actually kind of giddy)

Tax Cuts for the Wealthy:

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-stimulus-saves-microsoft-billionaire-hundreds-of-millions-phew-2009-2

Where's the SCUM crying about Pres. Obama? This is his baby. Is it possible that it isn't possible to target tax-cuts or stimulus after all. Everyone that whined about Bush doing tax cuts for the rich are strangly silent on this. Hilarious Hyporites they are!

Soak the rich doesn't work:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted that only about 40,000 NYC residents produce 50% of the city's tax revenue.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02142009/news/regionalnews/bloomy_blasts_rich_tax_155116.htm

RIR: What Becomes of NYC's other 6.96 million residents if these 40,000 move away?

On the Homefront:

NYC residents perhaps should move to Sioux Falls, SD. That's what Minneapolis Based TCF bank is planning to do...

http://www.twincities.com/ci_11692951?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com

"Soak the rich" the mantra of liberals everywhere is being shown as the failure and the politics of childeshness that it is...

New Holiday...

In Honor of President Obama puting every amerian man, woman and child on the hook for an average of $30,000 each with the signing of his stimulus bill Tuesday. Conservativeuncensored.com will be observing February 17, 2009 as "Dependence Day" (new CUB) as this is now the day the Dependant State of America are born.

Well maybe not all the states, some governors get that they're selling their souls to the feds if they take the stimulus bribe...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-18-gopstimulus_N.htm

The Ruling Class doesn't pay taxes under Pres. Obama!

AAL 4 (new blog record):

One of the first thesis this blog was founded on is that the only class warfare that is a threat to our society is that between the ruling class and the regular voters.

Pres. Obama nominated Tim Geithner to the post of treasury secratary despite the fact he owed $34,000 to the IRS. This is the guy that will be auditing your asses as long as Obama is president.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/01/13/2009-01-13_barack_obamas_treasury_secretary_nominee.html

He apoligies and his nomination is confimred.

Now defeated former Senate Majority Leader Tom Dasc-hole (new CUB: Defeated Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle) is nominated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services position. It looks like Dems in the Senate are already paving the way for his confirmation once he apoligies for overlooking the $130,000 he owes the IRS.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_go_pr_wh/daschle_taxes

By VP Biden's standards these two are both unpatriotic because "it's patriotic to pay taxes." But he will never call these two on it because the DUC's (new CUB: Democtrat Ruling Class) live by different rules than the rest of us.

I suppose I could try to cheat the IRS out of $100,000 next year and when they jump on my ass just say "I'm sorry."

But I'm not a DUC. The Media treats them differently. Our rulers get special privledges, that is so far what the Obama presidency has been about. Hope, Change and screw you taxpayers.

Holy Cow this is brilliant if I do say so myself...

AAL1:

What is the one phrase the left invented to make them feel good about not supporting the president in defending our country?

"We support the troops but not the war."

We can have a long debate about how possible that really is. It's impossible to determine without having a defintion of support.

But since that definition is so vague I think it's very possible for conservatives to

"Support the President while disagreeing with his ideas" by the same standard.

And remember what Sen. Hillary Clinton said "It's patriotic to disagree with any administration."

Will these brilliant thoughts keep the left from calling conservatives un-american for disagreeing with Obama.

I can hope, but in my heart I know, probably not.

Still I like my thought

Back for Inaguration

AAL2)

So CU took a little break between the election and today, I kind of figured not to harsh the mellow of my readers that are Obama supporters. But now that he is officially the president, I just want to say I do wish him the best for our country. Not that's there's anything he did in his campaign that leads me to believe he will. Some conservatives are trying to take solace in his vagness (anyone still know what hope and change mean?), I am not as optimistic. That said he is my president (a courtesy in recognition most liberal voters did not extend Pres. Bush for the last 8 years), and I do want him to well. (I wonder if there's a chance in hell conservative author George Will changed Obama's mind on anything when they visited earlier this week?).

Today's post is just a few quick shots...

I guess there are a couple reasons to possibly take solace in Pres. Obama's vagueness. The rumors that he's not going to close Guantanamo Bay right away, and he's not going to soak the rich right away, would be to campaign promises I could live with him breaking. If you really think about it, if Pres. Obama breaks these two campaign promises he is officially almost as conservative as John McCain (I could send him a medal).

If he breaks these two promises, and all the people that voted for Pres. Obama don't denounce him for it, you are all officially THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD if you denounced Pres. Bush for the same thing (I'm looking at you Olberjerkoff).

So an email went out where I work to "Make sure we don't stream the Obama Inaguration while at work as that is detrimental to our resources."... Yeah, I'll try to resist...

RIR (New CUB, Rush Is Right)... Why do Pres. Obama supporters want conservatives to give him a chance before we criticize him when most of these same people crucified Justice Clarence Thomas when Pres. Bush (41) nominated him to the Supreme Court? More of THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

To Sen. McCain's credit he is being honest about the fact that Gov. Palin gave him a chance after Obama's acceptance speech (I'd like to think his praise is genuine and not being made only because it would reflect too poorly on him personally if he threw her under the bus like everyone else). As for his staffers and GOP insiders, I hope they burn in hell for by trying to blame the defeat on her.

Obama won, but conservatism didn't lose, was there conservatism anywhere on the ballot in November (Oh that's right Minnesotas 3rd and 6th districts, wtg Reps. Paulson and Bachman).

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a much welcomed threat to the centrist GOP establishment. The 2012 presidental nomination will be a proxy fight for control of the party between the centrists and the conservatives (possibly represented by Gov. Palin).

There is no need for a centrist third party, the Republicans are now the centrist party. If a third party wants to form, there's plenty of room on the right, the Republicans don't give a damn about them anyomre.

Hey Republicans! Isn't it awesome to be the centrist party. You get votes from both the left and the right, right? How well is this brilliant PSB (new CUB, Poli-sci Brat) theory translating in to House and Senate seats...

I'm trying to respect Democratic leadership but Rep. N-Poo (New CU Blogword, Nancy Pelosi, D-CA) is making it difficult by making veiled threats to arrest Pres. Bush administration officials.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/18/pelosi-open-prosecution-bush-administration-officials/

I find it hilarous that unrepentant murderer-slash-"guy in Pres. Obama's neighborhood" Bill Ayers got denied trying to get into Canada this week. Why is he leaving? Didn't he get the memo? His guy won! Even the Baldwin brothers are staying home (even conservative Stephen isn't making the leave the country threats his brother made in 2004).

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers-20-jan20,0,3534228.story

Oh I suppose if you read the link he's now an educrat wannabe giving lectures in Canada. Good to know the people at Canada's borders have some brains, unlike their universities (our universities are pretty brainless too for that matter).

CU promises to address all the issues of the day, praise who deserves to be praised, and damn who deserves to be damned. Regardless of party. Conservatism is the way for the american dream, not empty suits creating a class of people reliant on the government.

I made a promise, and not all is lost

AAL: 2

The one path to victory I saw for McCain closed very quickly around 8CT. After seeing PA fall to Obama, shortly followed by OH it became clear that McCain did not do enough to defeat Obama in this election.

So congragtualtions to the President-elect. I believe the office itself is deserving of respect regardless of who's holding it. In yesterday's post I promised to offer President-elect Obama that respect, which many on the left have failed to give Presdient Bush.

This means
1) I am not going to cry and move to Canada like that WLB (cu blogword, whiny little bitch) Alec Baldwin (though Canada did elect their "conservative party" to power in their election).
2) I am not going to call Obama a retard or monkeyman (these being among the tamer insults directed at President Bush)
3) I am not going to write a play or movie about the assissnation of the sitting president.
4) I am not going to draw devisive electoral maps saying the blue states aren't in my country (yes I'm talking about that anti-christian bigot Michael Moore's "Jesusland" map).

While I obviously will oppose many of the policies Presdient Elect Obama has proposed, he is still the leader of the country I love so dearly. And yes, Mrs. Obama, it is possible to be proud of your country whoever is leading it. As an opponent of your husband I believe that, I'm sorry you only believe it when you're winning.

That's a tanget, however I have more promises to make in support of conservatism..,

1) I am going to criticize President Obama any time a meausre passes that hurts the american people, and I will try to quantify the damage as plain as possible. As it turns out it is possible to be patriotic and criticize the President. I hope that doesn't automatically make me racist (however if Obama's house surrogates are any indication, it probably does...)

2) While I will continue to respect the office of President, the office of SCUM Journalism is still my bitch (I'm looking at you Olbeljerk-off).

Speaking of which all is not lost...

As of this writing the Dems have only flipped about 12 seats in the house, and 5 in the senate (we may wait a while for the MN result) far less than what they were expecting, the popular vote for president also is within about 4 points, though the electoral college is looking like a landslide.

Speaking of Minnesota....

We must be the most schizophrenic electorate in the country. Obama carries the state handly, carries the country pretty handly for that matter. In every other state it seems Obama's coattails were alive and well. Yet Ultra-Con Rep. Bachman, John Kline, and Eric Paulson all find their way to victory in house races (stifling Dem hopes to pick up 30 seats), Coleman and Franken are going to the wire, and I understand there is a margin which will trigger an automatic recount. So we can elect conservative house members, liberal presidents, it's going to come down to a couple hundred votes between a comedy writer and a senator/former mayor.

But all minnesotans seem to agree on higher sales and property taxes, given where the constitiutional amendment and most school board initiatives landed...

I don't get it, but what can I say, Minnesota is home.

Future of conservatism...

And lastly I want to point out before Rush does on his radio show later today, that it's not like conservatism got beat today. The RNC has had this push to become moderate, to try and pick off democrats by becoming more like them. And that's how we ended up with a rather liberal nominee like John McCain. McCain did the consevative base one favor by selecting Gov. Palin. I hope the RNC took notice that she's the only reason there was any energy about Sen. McCain in the final 2 months of his campaign. And as Charles Krauthammer pointed out, all those people that thought a moderate nominee was politically smart ended up endorsing Obama anyway once it seems an Obama victory is unlikley. The conservative rank and file should be outraged that that is what passes for leadership in the Republican party. But the RNC's culpability in this defeat is a topic for another post...

Point being the stakes are high because recovery is possible, look at 1980 and 1994, both attainable goals if the RNC gets its act together...