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Your advice to Romney for Wednesday’s debate with Obama?

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What would YOUR advice be to Mitt Romney for this coming Wednesday evening’s domestic policy debate with Barack Hussein Obama? [2012 Presidential Debate Schedule is here.]

My immediate advice would be this:

  • Get under the skin of Mr Obama early;
  • Let people see the real B. Hussein Obama;
  • Kill him with FACTS;
  • Point out his shortfalls in domestic policy;
  • Again, hit him with facts: GM, bailouts, the budget deficit, the true cost of ObakaKare, the true cost of CapNTax, the failure of QE1, 2 and 3, Taxmageddon, not one vote for even one of his proposed budgets (Ryan’s got more votes!), Solyndra, complete lack of transparency, his arrogance, his detachment, his disinterest, his lies.

Everyone knows that Mr Obama’s ability to speak contemporaneously is seriously lacking absent a certain piece of technology.  Everyone also knows that in the bulk of the GOP debates Mr Romney came out consistently as the top two best speakers.  Mr Obama tends to fall apart when one does not display the proper formal obeisance.  He dissembles, he stutters, he “ums” and “uhs.”

Mr Obama is an Elitist who doesn’t deserve the title and whose dues have never been paid.

He is thin-skinned, he hasn’t had to work at an actual difficult job, in terms of physical labor or otherwise, a day of his life.  He never had to meet a payroll.  He never had to deal with difficult employees.  He never had to deal with governmental regulations.  He never had to deal with workers comp claims.  He never had to deal with people calling in sick or simply not showing up for work.  He never had to deal with a fryer or a refrigerator that broke down.  He never had to meet business taxes.  He never actually created one fucking job in his life.  Mitt Romney did that and infinitely more.  With humility and logic and planning.

Mr Obama fractures because he cannot take heat and he cannot take confrontation.

Mr Romney needs to provide that heat and that confrontation.

Immediately.  Up front.  In order to promptly set the tone throughout the rest of the debates.

Your thoughts?

BZ

 

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These people vote:

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I tried not to post this, because the people here are so incredibly daft, but they are indicative of a particular mindset in a particular community and series of communities.

First up to bid, a video that is now a classic:

Next, a card-carrying SEIU-paid supporter indicates Romney promises to tax people who have no money:

We now display for your continuing entertainment more SEIU-paid protesters at a Cleveland, Ohio Romney event, September 26th.  SEIU paid the protesters a massive $11 an hour:

Let’s see, the federal “minimum wage” is $7.25 an hour. In Ohio, it’s $7.70.  I thought Leftists and Progressives paid people an actual “living wage.”  There won’t be much living and benefits on $11.00 an hour, for a temporary job, Leftists.

For an interesting change-up, here is an average younger GOWP who believes that Ambassador Christopher Stevens “probably had it coming.”

I’m glad to see that Leftists and Obama supporters are continuing to be the kind, expressive and caring individuals we always knew them to be.

But here’s a bit of the kicker: some fronts are indicating that the mere mentioning or reproduction of the first video above is racist.  Yes.  Correct.  Pointing out that an individual is an uneducated dupe is racist — if the uneducated dupe is black.

You know, with everything else taken in perspective and the rest of the baggage slung on Romney, Republicans and Conservatives, it all makes sense now, doesn’t it?

BZ

 

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Fornicalia: a failing state from which people and businesses flee

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I first wrote about the Fornicalia Business Exodus here.  And a long post it was.

I listed, in detail, the 69 most recent businesses having fled the state.  Not just “Mom and Pop” businesses but serious businesses responsible for big payrolls.

I wrote here about the reasons listed for those businesses having fled.  They were:

#10 – Unprecedented Energy Costs: The California Manufacturers and Technology Association states that commercial electrical rates here already are 50% higher than in the rest of the country. However, a law enacted in April 12, 2011 requires utilities to get one-third of their power from renewable sources (e.g., solar panels, windmills) within nine years. Look for costs to increase by another 19% in many places to a whopping 74% in Los Angeles. Such new burdens along with upcoming regulations stemming from the “California Global Warming Solutions Act” set potentially overwhelming obstacles to companies here as they try to meet competition based in other states and in foreign nations.

#9 – Severe Tax Treatment: The Tax Foundation in their 2011 State Business Tax Climate Index lists California at No. 49 for tax fairness. CFO Magazine ranked California the worst state for tax treatment. The Council on State Taxation ranks California as the only state to receive a D- grade (the lowest grade). Last year the National Conference of State Legislatures said California remains the number one state in raising taxes – raising them higher than any other state that increased taxes in 2009.

#8 – Worst Regulatory Burden: The consulting firm Bain & Co. constructed a “regulatory hassle index” that found “California is far worse than any other state by a very significant margin.” The finding was echoed by Development Counselors International that found that 72% of surveyed corporate executives listed California as having the “worst business climate” in the entire United States. The newest survey, released in March 2011, found that 87.7% of California executives who also operate in several states say California is a harder place to do business than anywhere else. The survey, by the California Foundation for Commerce and Education, found that among the other 12.3%, not one executive said it’s easier doing business in California.

#7 – Dreadful Legal Treatment: The Civil Justice Association of California said the state ranks 44th in legal fairness to business. Los Angeles was again named the least fair and reasonable litigation environment in the entire country.

#6 – Most Expensive Business Locations: The Rose Institute of State and Local Government reported in its 2010 survey that California cities continue to be some of the most expensive locations to do business in the United States. That was confirmed by the Milken Institute, which found that California businesses are paying 23% more than the national average just to operate here.

#5 – Provable Savings Elsewhere: Again Bain & Co. found that more than half of California business leaders – an astonishing 60% – said their policy is to restrict job growth in the state or move jobs to other U.S. locations. Some companies are quite open about this, like Intel, which has said it will never build another plant in California, and McAfee in 2010 admitted it intentionally avoids hiring in California and saves about 30 to 40% every time it hires outside of the state.

#4 – Downright Unfriendly: The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council in Virginia found that California ranked 49th overall in terms of business friendliness. That was echoed in February 2010 when The Mercatus Center at George Mason University ranked California 48th in economic, regulatory and personal freedoms in the 50 states.

#3 – Uncontrollable Spending: Extravagant spending causes California to now have the lowest credit rating of any state. The American Legislative Exchange Council points out: “Despite the dubious distinction of having both the highest statewide personal income tax and the highest state sales tax in the nation, California still finds itself with far and away the largest budget deficit of any state.”

#2 – Excessively Adversarial: For two years in a row Chief Executive magazine found California to be the worst state in the nation in which to do business. Said one CEO, “California is terrible. Even when we’ve paid their high taxes in full, they still treat every conversation as adversarial. It’s the most difficult state in the nation.” The magazine calls California the “Venezuela of North America.”

#1 – The ‘Outpouring’ of Poor Rankings Continues: California ranked dead last in the latest Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States for 2010 study. The finding was based on a composite of labor-related factors, business and personal taxes, the litigation environment, demographics, crime rates, school dropout rates, lifestyle and a multitude of other issues. There is little evidence that California’s business environment will improve considering that that the legislature in 2011 has voted down litigation reform, tax-increase plans are underway, and a host of new regulations are to be implemented that will increase costs for literally every business.

Tom McClintock had this cautionary tale: as Fornicalia IS, so does Mr Obama wish.

With all that, comes a study:

The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look

Tom Gray & Robert Scardamalia

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
For decades after World War II, California was a destination for Americans in search of a better life. In many people’s minds, it was the state with more jobs, more space, more sunlight, and more opportunity. They voted with their feet, and California grew spectacularly (its population increased by 137 percent between 1960 and 2010). However, this golden age of migration into the state is over. For the past two decades, California has been sending more people to other American states than it receives from them. Since 1990, the state has lost nearly 3.4 million residents through this migration.

This study describes the great ongoing California exodus, using data from the Census, the Internal Revenue Service, the state’s Department of Finance, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and other sources. We map in detail where in California the migrants come from, and where they go when they leave the state. We then analyze the data to determine the likely causes of California’s decline and the lessons that its decline holds for other states.

The data show a pattern of movement over the past decade from California mainly to states in the western and southern U.S.: Texas, Nevada, and Arizona, in that order, are the top magnet states. Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah follow. Rounding out the top ten are two southern states: Georgia and South Carolina.

I highly recommend reading the entire Manhattan Institute study, replete with graphs, charts, statistics and references.

But the bottom line is truly this: Representative McClintock makes the best and final argument for a vote against Mr Obama in November:

As Fornicalia is now, so will the United States become under Barack Hussein Obama.

BZ

 

 

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“End of Watch” — for the nation

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I attended a Sunday showing of the new David Ayer film, “END OF WATCH.”

At its conclusion, I couldn’t help but make some linkages and indulge in a tad bit of introspection.

First, “End of Watch” is not “Training Day.”

I would recommend EOW to everyone looking for a remarkably accurate portrayal of police work in a big city rife with gangs, violence, mixed races and endless challenges for law enforcement.  It does an excellent job of displaying the best and the worst of humanity.  It does an excellent job of illustrating how the current young mixed generation of cops deal with the concepts of evil, sacrifice, history, courage, violence, reality, insanity, family, support, camaraderie, cliques, teams, and a greater awareness and sense of self.  And, moreover, how they are the video, social media, explicit, unabashed, put-everything-out-there generation — with little concern for the concomitant consequences.

That said, I wanted to investigate the making of the film.  America Ferrera has an interesting insight in this article. As in: the neighborhoods were true and correct.  As were a bulk of the “actors” in the “background.”  I won’t event speculate as to the amounts of cash that had to flow for the movie company to work unimpeded in L.A.

And that made me think further:

Perhaps there is an actual coming “end of watch” for our nation as well.  Further: the reasons are so clearly illustrated in this film.

There are not only individual persons but gangs and neighborhoods and communities and areas and subdivisions and cities and states reliant but upon the continual flow of local, state and federal cash.  Welfare cash.  Free cash.  Cash undeserved but still proffered.

As in:

But: how did we get there?  And what will we do now?  And how can we rid ourselves of this denigrating and corrupting plague?

And how did these two disparate persons/races manage to not only survive but — until the de nou mas — thrive?

How did we get here?

How did we get our cops to battle death edicts called in from foreign countries?

How did we allow MS13 “Big Evil” to exist in our suburbs in the first place?

Why do we or should we pit our civilian cops against militaristic cults, groups, gangs, unions, units or brigades from foreign military groups?

In one car: two Glock 17 pistols, six magazines, and one shotgun with six shells?

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a proverbial setup for failure.

Open borders.  Versus closed borders.

Right vs wrong.

How did we get here?

And a final question:

Would your dead grandparents recognize this current country?

BZ

 

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