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I Think This Is What Going To Hell In A Handbasket Looks Like
Written By : Melissa Clouthier

I just received this email from a reader:

Dr. Clouthier,

I’ve got my own conservative-leaning site but I keep yours close at hand everyday. Thank you, first off, for being so vigilant.

That being said, I’m sorry to have to ask so bluntly, but is this Kevin Jennings thing real? I think I’m in shock. I keep telling myself that it’s real, after all, I am seeing collation of the facts in more than one place. But convincing myself something like this is actually happening, even in today’s amoral society, is just seemingly beyond the scope of what my mind will allow for.

I am having a hell of a time believing this. Because, if it’s true, I’m uncertain as to whether to devolve into such anger that I’m sputtering sentence fragments or just quit my job and find a way to chase this Administration right out of the White House somehow.

Signed,
This Can’t Be Happening

[The writer included name and email address.]

Yes, the Kevin Jennings story is true and legit. But if you’ll look around, that’s not the least of the damage being wrought by leftists at the moment.

This is the economic environment the Democrats are creating. As an aside, you simply must read Maxed Out Mama, she has spot on economic analysis, always. Here’s what she says today:

We are heading straight toward a brick wall; the entire government sector is supported by the private sector. All the promises and the fine rhetoric ignore the fact that the country simply cannot support its current government structure.

Shrinkwrapped, who she quotes, quotes T.S. Elliot:

NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

The Hollow Men – TS Eliot

And then he says this:

Bureaucracy is the real recession-proof industry. The numbers are mind-boggling. In 18 months, the number of federal employees making over $100K have increased 46%. The number making over $150K has more than doubled.

It’s not as if they’ve been asked to do more with less, either. In the first six months of the year, the federal government was adding 10,000 jobs per month, and over the recession had grown the ranks of bureaucrats by 9.8%. The private sector, during that same period, shed 7.3 million jobs to contract 6.3%.

So your tax dollars go to expand an already bloated government. No wonder Michigan’s Jennifer Granholm was asked to be the economic adviser. Her failed Michigan policies are being put forth federally. It’s a disaster. And no, it’s not an exaggeration.

The Federal spending is unsustainable and yet, the Senate Democrats wait, with bated breath, for the CBO estimates of the costs of the new health care compromise.

Are. They. Insane?

Yes. Putting together a huge new entitlement in the midst of a horrendous downturn is insane. All the numbers indicate that things will be getting worse, not better for a while, and yet Larry Summers gets on weekend talk shows and announces that we’re out of recession. On what planet?

It is indeed time to kill the bill.

All of these Democrat ideas will continue America’s downward spiral. So yes, they’re being led by guys like Jennings who think your children need to know the ins and outs of, ahem, blow job etiquette.

Yes, this is the administration giving license to Iran and North Korea–both governments emboldened by American weakness. Iran is working on the “nuclear trigger“. Swell.

There is not one way the Democrats are helping America or Americans, right now. The Obama presidency is a mess. The Congressional Democrats want to hand him a win with health care, but that would be a loss for America.

Hell meet handbasket. I think we’re there.

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  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    I wrote about the federal government’s growth

    * Number of jobs officially lost in the last 18 months: 7.3 million
    * Average US federal government worker salary: $71,206
    * Amount of average pay over average private sector employees: $30,000
    * Percentage of federal employees making $100,000* or more: 19%
    * Percentage of federal employees making that much before the recession started: 14%
    * Government earning $150,000 June 2009: 10,100
    * Government employees earning $150,000 December 2008: 1,868
    * Number of employees of the federal government: 1.8 million
    * Number of job sectors with more employees: 1 (the post office)

    More here: http://networdblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/some-numbers.html

    Seniors especially love this part:

    •Amount of pay raise President Obama wants the federal government to get: 2%
    •Amount of Cost of Living Adjustment Social Security recipients received this year: 0%

  • rmiller

    This is the economic environment the Democrats are creating. As an aside, you simply must read Maxed Out Mama, she has spot on economic analysis, always. Here’s what she says today:
    Melissa Clouthier | 11:08 am

    If what you are saying were true the solution would be simple…vote for the party against that development.

    What Americans know in their heart is that both parties are sucking at the teat of the American gov’t.

    You keep blaming the Democrats….Americans know that the Republicans are no relief.

    Your partisanship is no help.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Posted by rmiller
    2009-12-14 19:04:37

    So what’s your point, Rmiller? The Republicans aren’t much better than the Democrats, therefore no one can possibly criticize the Democrats about anything?

    What the Hell are you trying to say? Do you even know?

  • rmiller

    Just that blaming Democrats is easy. Look at the post…if Ms. Clouthier, and others, spent half as much time blaming Republicans as Democrats, maybe conservatives would have a third party to vote for.

    As it is, by blaming the Dems for the way things are Ms Clouthier implies that voting for the other party would change things.

    You and I both know that is not the case. And your implication that I don’t know what I’m trying to say also implicates you…because you want to pretend that Ms Clouthiers partisanship is somehow different.

    It’s not. Nor is yours.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Just that blaming Democrats is easy.

    Well yeah, considering that they’re to blame for this mess.

    I’m still not getting your point here. Republicans aren’t perfect, therefore no one can criticize the Democrats when they act ten times worse? What the fuck are you talking about?

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    Republicans were spending too much. Democrats took that to an insanely multiplied degree and spent so much we’ll be lucky if we’re out of a depression in ten years.

    I agree Republicans are not much more than the lesser evil here… but they are lesser.

  • FranklinR

    I want one of those government jobs. I can work as hard as some of these men and women do. Where do you find them?

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    90% of federal government jobs aren’t in Washington DC, so maybe you have a chance.

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