Common Sense Politics

The Prize Rooster

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:14:19 +0000

John was in the egg business. He had several hundred hens, called
‘pullets’, and ten roosters to fertilize them. He kept records, and any
rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced. This
monitoring took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached
them to the roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell
from a distance which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the
porch and fill out an efficiency report just by listening to the
bells.

John’s favorite rooster, Obama, was a very fine specimen, but this
morning he noticed Obama’s bell hadn’t rung at all. When he went to
investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets,
bells a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the bells, would run for
cover. To John’s amazement, Obama had thought of a way around the
problem. He had his bell in his beak so it couldn’t ring. He’d sneak
up on a pullet, do his job and move on to the next one. John was so
proud of Obama that he entered him in the State Fair and he became an
overnight sensation among the judges. The result was the judges not
only awarded Obama the No-Bell Piece Prize, but also the highly-coveted
Pullet Surprise. Clearly Obama was a natural. Who else but Obama could
figure out how to win two of the most prestigious awards on the planet
by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them
without being noticed?

US Budget Cuts

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:31:16 +0000

Salary of retired US Presidents ………….$180,000 FOR LIFE

Salary of House/Senate …………………..$174,000 FOR LIFE This is stupid

Salary of Speaker of the House ………….$223,500 FOR LIFE This is stupid

Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders ……. $193,400 FOR LIFE This is stupid

Average Salary of a teacher ……………. $40,065

Average Salary of Soldier

DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN ……………….. $38,000

I think we found where the cuts should be made!

And don’t give me the reasoning that the pay for our elected officials needs to be high so we can attract the best and the brightest from the private sector. If the current session of elected officials is the best we can to offer lets capitulate now. I’m sure if we put our country up for sale all of us could retire permanently.

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senate_salaries.htm

http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/retirement_for_members.shtml

Members of Congress are eligible for a pension at age 62 if they have completed at least five years of service (Senators are elected for a minimum of 6 years)

They are eligible for a pension at age 50 if they have completed 20 years of service, or at any age after completing 25 years of service

Luckily they can conduct insider trading legally so they can further pad these benefits!

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/11/18/insider-trading-congress/

Florida Welfare Requires Drug Testing

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:47:33 +0000

I-95 will be jammed for the next month or so…..with Druggies and Deadbeats heading
North out of Florida.

Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare! In signing the new law, Republican Gov. Rick Scott said, “If Floridians want welfare, they better make sure they are drug-free.

Applicants who test positive for illicit substances won’t be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment.

Those who fail a second time would be banned from receiving funds for three years!

Naturally, a few people are crying this is unconstitutional.

How is this unconstitutional?

It’s completely legal that working people have to pass drug tests in order to get a JOB
which supports those on welfare!

Forward if you agree!

Let’s get Welfare back to the ones who NEED it, not those who WON’T get a JOB…

I AGREE 100%.

Going to Be President

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:43:59 +0000

Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day.

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, “If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?”

“She replied… “I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.” Her parents beamed with pride!

“Wow… what a worthy goal!” I said. “But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that!” I told her.

“What do you mean?” she replied.

So I told her, “You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I’ll pay you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.”

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?”

I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.”

Her parents aren’t speaking to me.

Obama’s Gangster Government

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:11:55 +0000

Dear Fellow Conservative:

Chicago, 1996. State Senator Alice Palmer (D-Ill.) never saw it coming…

The popular activist, running for re-election (she’d won the previous election with a landslide 82% of the vote), was a sure thing keep her seat.

But on the day after New Year’s 1996, a small army of lawyers filed into the hearing room of the Chicago Board of Elections. In a blink, Alice Palmer’s name had been struck from the ballot.

So, too, were the names of three other candidates on the Democratic primary ballot — all eliminated on the basis of minor “violations,” most of them as picayune as not crossing a “t” or failure to dot an “i.”

When the dust settled only a single name remained on the ballot: Barack Hussein Obama. He “swept” to victory… unopposed.

You can’t say we weren’t warned!

Veteran political journalist David Freddoso has done a very brave, but dangerous thing. As the Alice Palmer affair reveals, bad things happen to people who dare stand in the way of Barack Obama and his Chicago cronies. Indeed, since his election as president, Obama has shown no reluctance to unleash the IRS against his adversaries.

Unlike Ms. Palmer, who never saw it coming, David Freddoso knows full well what “misfortunes” might befall him. But that didn’t stop him from writing the truth, namely — that Barack Obama has brought Chicago-style corruption and strong-arm tactics to Washington in order to ram though his massive, union-benefiting welfare-state agenda.

In Gangster Government, the revelations explode page after page…

On PAGE 8, what Obama learned from his corrupt political godfather, a man whose entire family is on the government payroll or that of government contractors for whom he does legislative favors and receives large contributions in return.
On PAGE 11, how Michelle Obama received a job promotion with a 200% pay increase at the University of Chicago Hospital immediately after her husband’s election to the U.S. Senate.
On PAGE 12, how the newly elected Senator Obama requested a generous $1 million earmark for Michelle’s employer immediately following — guess what? — his wife’s promotion.
On PAGE 96, how Obama’s trillion-dollar “stimulus” has been used, not to revitalize the economy, but to protect the jobs of government workers, who in turn contribute massive sums to Obama’s re-election campaign.
On PAGE 43, how Obama cronies warned an investment firm to withdraw its opposition to the Chrysler bailout terms or face the full force of the White House press corps and the destruction of its reputation if it continued to fight.
On PAGE 193, discover the Obama administration’s secret plan to turn the U.S. government into the world’s largest landlord.
On PAGE 130, why under Obama’s hush-hush “Labor Plan A” you could return from vacation and find yourself a union member, whether you desire to be one or not.
On PAGE 161, the real reason why the Obama White House went ballistic and declared open war on the Fox News Channel.

And most important, in Gangster Government you’ll learn why the political thuggery we’ve endured since Obama’s inauguration in 2008 is just a preview of the desperate tactics this failed president and his backers will use to secure four more years of power — years our deeply wounded nation cannot bear.

Gangster Government is a truly astonishing, eye-opening book.