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Archive for May 21st, 2008
By John W. Lillpop Give California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger some credit. (Just don’t grant credit to the state of California!) Actually, Governor Schwarzenegger deserves some sort of recognition for being flexible and creative when it comes to balancing the state budget. Faced with a $15 billion shortfall, the governor unveiled a proposal to borrow money against future lottery earnings. Thus, California would join Nevada as a state in which gambling is enthusiastically tolerated, and even promoted. Living off the back of gamblers does not seem quite right, but California does need to close the budget gap and those gamblers could care less as long as the multi-million jackpots keep cropping up. Regrettably, the lottery scheme is not quite rich enough to fix the budget mess. But Arnold clearly owns some of the most blessed Karma on the planet. How else to explain the fact that the California state Supreme Court has come to Arnold’s rescue by ruling that same-sex weddings are just peachy? Or whatever fruit it is that gays and lesbians use to seal their marital bliss. Bingo! Arnold hits the jackpot again, or thinks he has, because of the revenue sure to flow into the state as couples named Fred and Ricky and Lucy and Ethel flock here by the millions to tie the proverbial knot. Never mind that the family values and traditions that have made America great will be trashed by same-sex nuptials. We need the dough, so to hell with one man-one- woman narrow minded silliness, the sanctity of marriage, and all of the other old school thinking that has the Golden state of the verge of bankruptcy! What is next, Arnold? Since the state has seen fit to convert gambling and sexual issues into revenue streams, why stop there? Why not take on the Catholic Church and tax the billions of dollars raked in by that corrupt group and misused to defend pedophiles and other perverts masked as “Father” figures? Don’t do anything to prevent the felonious fathers from committing their lewd acts, mind you; rather, just tax the billions that the church will raise to cover up and defend those perverts in collars! If things really get bad, Arnold, and gamblers stop gambling and if gays do not turn California into a monster wedding Mecca for the Peters and Pauls of the nation, you could always save $10 billion a year by kicking illegal aliens off the public trough! But, no, that would be just too extreme!
America’s inability to free itself from dependence on oil from the Middle East may go down as one of the greatest failures in U.S. political history. Even the most generous historian will find it difficult to justify our continued reliance on a region of the world that has been in constant turmoil for 50 years. History, if chronciled honestly, will note that the Democrat Party adamantly opposed measures that would increase the supply of oil. Why is that the case? Because arrogant elitists like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore have one priority when it comes to gasoline: Get Americans out of their automobiles! Warped liberals believe that the unwashed masses can damn well walk, skateboard, bike, hike, or preferably, not navigate at all. Except when headed to the polls to vote for Democrats, of course. Liberals have created the current energy crisis in order to save cross-eyed mosquitoes, a rare species which is apparently more important than energy independence and the well being of middle class citizens! Mind you, arrogant elitists like Al Gore, the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama will always drive, or be chauffeured around, in gas guzzling limousines, SUVs, and Hummers, regardless of prices at the pump or gasoline supply. It is your car or SUV that Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore want off the road! In advancing their “no-combustion engine for the middle class” agenda, liberals obviously exacerbate the energy crisis by toiling 24/7 to do the following: * Obstruct all oil drilling * Obstruct added refinery capacity via extreme environmental regulations * Obstruct nuclear energy and other reasonable alternative energy sources * Tax “windfall profits,” and implement other anti-business steps that stifle efforts to increase oil supply What about the demand side? Liberals are just as mindless there, by opting to add federal and state taxes to the cost of gasoline at every opportunity. Clearly, $4 per gallon gasoline is the product of liberalism run amok. So, the question voters will have to answer this November is: Are you ready to wait in long lines just to pay $5 for a gallon of gasoline? If so, vote for ‘’obstruct and tax” Democrats! |
