George Rebane
Toyota wants to shut down their bay area assembly plant employing 4,600 for all the obvious (to non-socialists) reasons. The state of California is trying to stop them by threatening to charge Toyota hundreds of millions of dollars for ‘clean up’ fees before they can move to a more business friendly climate. And the California legislature continues dominated by politicians who believe that prosperity is just one or two tax hikes away. (WSJ)
BTW, did you notice, in the comment thread of my column in the 15aug09 Union, the number of Nevada County residents who also firmly believe that higher taxes do the most to increase GDP and the general public welfare. Just in case anyone wonders how those tax-and-redistribute politicians get elected.
The Sacramento tea party on 28 August will involve many more folks than just people like Jo Ann and me. It seems that Tea Party Patriots are becoming a national focus for protesting all kinds of government interventions and obstructions of personal freedoms and productive activities. Tea Party Patriots co-ordinator Mark Meckler reports that
On August 28, groups who have never come together before, farmers, ranchers, miners, loggers, trucking companies, cement makers, builders…productive, hard working people from all political parties, social affiliations and industries will descend on the state capitol in Sacramento.
Get all the information on this event here.
It turns out that the Democrats have been planning on the nefarious ‘public option’ to be the Trojan horse for getting the country into a single-payer healthcare system since 2007. They didn’t really care who would be finally nominated as long as they got all the real contenders – Obama, Edwards, Clinton – on board early. The Heritage Foundation has all this dug up and sorted out for you here.
Apparently the Chief Forked Tongue himself was apprised of the stealth route to socialized medicine, and signed on to the ruse in 2007 before the campaign got hot and heavy. Now the White House claims to be “mystified” as to why the country has focused on this aspect of Obamacare.
[20aug09 update] "You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government doesn't first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half will take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get half of what they work for, that my friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." Adrian Rogers 1931 – 2005.
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