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Walter Williams
The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

Michelle Malkin
Update: Hold up. There’s more from Ben Howe at RedState…Was the Tea Party Kicked Out of the Capitol By Former Bennett Staffers Mad at Mike Lee?

Takeaway:

Man, isn’t it amazing how the world just works to Senator Schumer’s benefit, even when he has no idea it’s going on?

So the only logical conclusions you can come to is that a) The staffers are lying or b) Chuck Schumer is lying.

My gut tells me the answer is c) all of the above.

Michelle Malkin
A refresher course on the proposal’s flaws from Mario Loyola (h/t Whitney Pitcher):

Basically, all the House resolution would do is require a bare supermajority (three fifths) of Congress to override the prohibition on deficit spending. There is no limitation on taxation or total spending, so the amendment could be enforced by a catastrophic across-the-board tax increase. Instead of spending at 25 percent of GDP, taxing at 15 percent of GDP, and borrowing the rest (as the Obama budgets have done), we could find ourselves both taxing and spending at 25 percent of GDP. Without a strict limitation on taxation and spending, a balanced-budget amendment by itself could do more harm than good. As Sen. John Cornyn (R., Tex.) noted yesterday, “Let’s all remember that the disease in Washington is out-of-control spending, and budget deficits and the debt are really symptoms of that disease.”

…In today’s political climate, a balanced-budget amendment with strict spending limits may have dim prospects of getting the required two-thirds vote in each chamber of Congress and the required 38 states. But at some point, Americans are going to get really tired of high unemployment, anemic growth, and general malaise, and they’re going to stop believing the empty promises of those who say we need even more government to solve a problem that is clearly the fault of too much government. What made America great over two centuries was a combination of economic freedom, limited government, and self-reliance. We can only hope that those ideals will once again command the adherence of a great majority of us. At that point, ratification of a strong constitutional limit on taxing, spending, and borrowing will have a much greater chance of ratification than it does today.

(Sounds like hopey changey to me. With public education turning out fully indoctrinated voters every year, what hope can you have for a change. -prodoggle editorial)

Rebuilding that consensus will take time — all the more reason to start now.

(EUSE-prodoggle editorial)

I just wanted to comment on all of you who just want to sit around bitching about Bush and the Jews and drink beer. Or show off at those tea parties. We have hundreds of subsribers and thousands of visitors, although they’re falling off. We even have a few feeble old fogies left alive in our original group. But I’m carrying the whole boat here. Not that I’m asking anyone to start spilling their bile here. I realize that everyone in 912 and the tea parties is concentrating on elections, but when your kids reelect Obama, maybe you’ll remember EUSE.

I brought this up again because there seems to be a lack of interest in what tomorrow’s voters are learning. As Pa. coordinator for Eye on US Education (EUSE), I’m not impressed with the amount of concern shown on the 912 and Tea Party websites. If your organization isn’t taking the education or indoctrination of the young people seriously, demand that they do so immediately. Remember all the glassy eyed kids with their hands waving, saying “Yes we can!”? They’ve been working hard. Us? Not so much. Time to get cracking. The baby boomers don’t outnumber everyone. You can’t keep your republic by preaching to them alone. Do you know how many kids become elegible to vote each year?

To help you get you started, I’m starting a new page showing some of the things that were sent to your group. You can check and see if it is being looked into.

Richard Bergin
prodogg1@prodoggle.org
Pa coordinator EUSE
http://www.eyeonuseducation.org

I think at some time you’ve spent enough of my money.

Shit doesn’t always roll even, but it always rolls downhill. So we know who did it.

Spread the work.

There’s always that one percent who don’t get the word. If you put the word out, you’re responsible.

You can delegate authority but it’s still your responsibility.

If you give a man a fish, he’ll expect you to feed him for a lifetime. If he learns to fish, he’ll be expected to feed everybody.

Laws are made to protect the government. Violations that benefit the government are not punished.

I never think of these things when I can write them down. I never remember anything I don’t write down.

End of the American Dream
#1 When you total up all compensation (including health care and benefits), the average income for a federal worker in the Washington D.C. area last year was $126,369.
#2 In 2005, 7420 federal workers were making $150,000 or more per year. In 2010, a whopping 82,034 federal workers were making $150,000 or more per year. That is more than a tenfold increase in just five years.
#3 In 2005, the U.S. Department of Defense had just nine civilians earning $170,000 or more. When Barack Obama took office, the U.S. Department of Defense had 214 civilians earning $170,000 or more. In June 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense had 994 civilians earning $170,000 or more.
#4 Last year, federal employees “earned” approximately 447 billion dollars in total compensation.
#5 According to a study by the Heritage Foundation, federal workers earn 30 to 40 percent more money on average than their counterparts in the private sector.

“The trouble with the [Occupy Wall Street] movement is that it’s centered around two concepts, both of which are abject lies. First and foremost, it doesn’t represent ninety-nine percent of anything, no mater how many time the protesters themselves, their enablers, or a corrupt mainstream media repeats the slogan. Second, there is nothing inherently virtuous about being poor or middle class, any more than there is anything inherently evil about being wealthy. … And make no mistake: it is a virus that infects every ethnic group, both genders and, as you may have guessed, every income class. Until some kind of national integrity is restored, everything else comes down to dealing with the symptoms of the problem instead of the problem itself. How do you restore integrity? One self-aware person at a time coming to the realization that without it, you’re nothing but the member of a mob, whether that mob resides in Zuccotti Park, a bank boardroom, or the Beltway in Washington, D.C. You want to camp out all winter and rail against the inequities of the world? Knock yourself out.” –columnist Arnold Ahlert

By Argus Hamilton
The State Department just bought thousands of books written by Barack Obama for overseas distribution. He gets a fifteen percent royalty on each book sold to his own government. Bill Clinton cannot believe there is actually something he didn’t think of first.

By Mark Steyn
Last Thursday was officially “Diaper Need Awareness Day” in the state of Connecticut. Were you aware of it? There are so many awareness-raising days, it’s hard to keep track. Maybe we could have an Awareness-Raising Day Awareness Day.

At any rate, the first annual Diaper Need Awareness Day was proclaimed by Dan Malloy, governor of the Nutmeg State, and they had a big old awareness-raising get-together in New Haven.

If you’re wondering what sentient being isn’t aware of diapers, you’re missing the point: Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro is raising awareness of the need for diapers in order to, as Politico reported, “push the federal government to provide free diapers to poor families.”