SCHULTZ LIVING IN A BUBBLE
On 8/12/2011 Randy Schultz, Editor of the Editorial Page of the Palm Beach Post, posted an opinion piece entitled Who got things right while debt skyrocketed? We did.
Mr. Schultz attempts to make the argument that the Palm Beach Post cannot be blamed for the state of the nations finances. “Fiscal conservatives, that’s us.” Says Mr. Schultz. He then identifies a few examples when the Post opposed legislation that harmed the economy and increased the national debt. Mr. Schultz examines events going back as far as 1982. He is able to find a hand full of budget and legislative bills passed by Congress and signed by Presidents causing instability in markets and adding to the national debt. What he fails to mention is that since it’s inception, the Palm Beach Post has endorsed and helped elect an overwhelming majority of big government tax and spend liberal politicians at both the local and national levels. Almost all of the Palm Beach Posts endorsements favor Democrats with the occasional R.H.I.N.O. tossed into the mix. These are the politicians who have expanded government spending to unimaginable and unsustainable levels. Thank you Palm Beach Post.
The disdain for true fiscally conservative leaders like Allen West, Marco Rubio, Michele Bachman (love that Newsweek Cover), Herman Cain (more coverage of his gospel singing than his extraordinary resume) is apparent. (Does anyone notice that these are all conservative women and minorities?) Contrast this with the Post’s adulation for whining big government progressive politicians like Debra Wah Wah Wasserman-Schultz, Ron Klein and Obama.
While the media gave Sarah Pallin a public colonoscopy, Barack Obama was sheltered from critical analysis; we are still trying to figure out who Obama is! Just today I saw a clip of Chris Matthews asking Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post a question. To paraphrase Matthews; Eugene, don’t you think the N.Y. Times and the Washington Post will spend every last nickel they have to send out young reporters to go after Rick Perry? Don’t’ you think that this guy better pray he has nothing in his past. Don’t you think he had better be completely clean? Not surprisingly Eugene Robinson’s answer was, Absolutely. Yes!
These people pretend to be journalist, reporting news and events, informing the public. In reality they are nothing more than tools; a mouthpiece for the left. They all live in the same bubble. Look at the staff of the Palm Beach Post. Could any of these people be considered politically conservative? Is there any media source that could possibly be considered conservative outside of talk radio or one cable channel, Fox News? The deck is stacked overwhelmingly against conservative thought and yet the left whines about damage done by the terrorist, hostage taking tea party crowd.
Grow up and come out of your bubble Mr. Schultz. You and the Palm Beach Post have in the past and continue today to influence our elections with your biased support of big spending Democrats. You praise the bailouts and defend the failed stimulus even as we speed toward bankruptcy and a country of welfare recipients. You remain silent as the clowns and army of czars in the Obama Administration destroy the private sector. You scoff at even the most meager of budget cuts such as the elimination of funding for the Public Broadcasting Corporation and foreign aid programs. You claim that such cuts would not make a difference. I say in a crisis, every penny makes a difference.
A fan of my blog sent me the following report, which was written by Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post (thank you fan). It details one of the Republican proposals for spending cuts. Whether you like these cuts or not, can you please at least ask, “Where’s the damn Democrat Plan!” Can you demand that Obama exit Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Will you ask, where the hell did Code Pink go?
By the way Mr. Schultz, some insignificant little cuts are listed below. They add up to over 2.5 trillion dollars over ten years. Yes entitlements and defense must come next but at least these cuts should be comparatively easy
FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
CUTS PROPOSED BY THE REPUBLICANS
➢ Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings. ➢ Save America's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.
➢ International Fund for Ireland. $17 million annual savings.
➢ Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.
➢ National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
➢ National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
➢ Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings.
➢ Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
➢ Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
➢ U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.
➢ Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.
➢ Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
➢ John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
➢ Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
➢ Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
➢ Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings.
➢ Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
➢ Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
➢ Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.
➢ Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.
➢ Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.
➢ Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
➢ New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
➢ Exchange Programs for Alaska, Natives Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts. $9 million annual savings.
➢ Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
➢ Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
➢ Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.
➢ Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.
➢ Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.
➢ Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
➢ FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
➢ Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
➢ Economic Assistance to Egypt. $250 million annually.
➢ U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
➢ General Assistance to District of Columbia. $210 million annual savings.
➢ Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
➢ Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
➢ No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
➢ End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
➢ Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
➢ IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
➢ Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.
➢ Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
➢ Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.
➢ Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
➢ Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
➢ Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings.
➢ Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
➢ USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
➢ Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). $93 million annual savings.
➢ Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.
➢ Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
➢ Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings.
I place blame for our financial crises and credit downgrade squarely at the feet of the Democrat Party and it’s tools in the mainstream media who endorse big government leftist politicians year after year.
Come out of your bubble Mr. Schultz, question yourself; question the left as well as the right.
Come out of your bubble Mr. Schultz, question yourself; question the left as well as the right.
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