Archives for March 2011

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/2…ing-order.html

I guess it is not enough to insinuate that anyone receiving state aid is some kind of druggie that should be tested. Rick Scott now wants all state workers to submit to at least 4 drug tests each year. I guess it doesn’t matter that blanket drug testing by employers unless there is some sort of safety issue involved with the job has already been shown to be unconstitutional. We can add this to the list of unconstitutional provisions being promoted by the Republican class of 2010.

So now the state, which is supposedly in a fiscal crisis that demands huge budget cuts, can somehow afford arbitrary testing of nearly 100,000 Floridians every 3 months at a cost of tens of millions each year.

Whatever happened to the whole "We are for small, limited government" thing?

PS.. Scott’s wife also owns significant shares in the company that would likely be involved in performing these tests. Conflict of interest much?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Medica…&asset=&ccode=

How much is too much? There is another drug that will cost tax payers $120,000 for each user.

I guess the liberals think that everybody is entitled to everything.

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=13259028

What could armed rebels do supporting a no fly zone?

I seriously love Walter Williams;politically speaking of course:lol:; I would honestly be in a deliema on who to vote for if he and Ron Paul both ran for President in 2012;that’s how much I love him and his views so while reading one of his recent articles articles this morning, I thought others might enjoy.
http://townhall.com/columnists/walte…d_common_sense

Handouts, Morality and Common Sense

Whether Americans realize it or not, the last decade’s path of congressional spending is unsustainable. Spending must be reined in, but what spending should be cut? The Republican majority in the House of Representatives fear being booted out of office and are understandably timid. Their rule for whom to cut appears to be: Look around to see who are the politically weak handout recipients.

The problem is that those cuts won’t put much of a dent in overall spending. The absolute last thing a Republican or Democrat congressmen wants to do is to cut handouts to, and thereby anger, recipients who vote in large numbers. To spare myself ugly mail, I’m not going to mention that handout group, but members of Congress know of whom I speak.

More than 200 House members and 50 senators have co-sponsored a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution. A balanced budget amendment is no protection against the growth of government and the loss of our liberties. Estimated federal tax revenue for 2011 is $2.2 trillion and federal spending is $3.8 trillion leaving us with a $1.6 trillion deficit. The budget could be balanced simply by taking more of our earnings, making us greater congressional serfs. True protection requires an amendment limiting congressional spending.

Then it goes onto state…

Some people might say, "Williams, the programs that you’d cut are vital to the welfare of our nation!" When someone says that, I always ask what did we do before. For example, our nation went from 1787 to 1979 and during that interval produced some of the world’s most highly educated people without a Department of Education. Since the department’s creation, American primary and secondary education has become a joke among industrialized nations.

What about the Department of Energy; how much energy has it produced?

From our founding in 1787 to 1965, our nation went from a Third World status to building the world’s mightiest first-class cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and Philadelphia without the benefit of Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). After HUD was created in 1965, many of our formerly great cities are in decline. No one is saying that HUD is responsible for the decline, but neither was HUD responsible for their rise.

Dang, I wish we had more like him!