So much for property tax relief

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Unless you are a senior, your property tax rebate check is on the chopping block. Years of uncontrolled spending by New Jersey Democrats have put property tax relief in danger. Our unsustainable court mandated housing and school aid formulas and Corzine and the Democrats cowardice in dealing with public employees have made it so the only way Simple John and his merry men in Trenton can balance the budget is scale back the property tax rebate checks for the people who have been tuned into chattel, you, the tax payer. You pretty much spend your days working so that public employees can have free health care and retirement and so poor people who can’t afford houses in your neighborhood get to live there on your dime and send their kids to school on your dime. What do you get out of it? Nothing.

We are through the looking glass here

Author: Rory B. Bellows

In the last two days the Democrat party has passed a $410 billion dollar omnibus spending bill, which increases government spending by 8%, and Chairman Obama unveiled a $4 trillion dollar budget that ups spending from the $3.1 trillion abortion that President Bush presided over last year. Now we have Chairman Obama going out in front of the country and talking about the “cuts” he made in the budget.

In what universe is increasing the budget by 25% considered cutting spending?

btw, I also noticed that he claims there are no budget gimmicks involved bu no where an we find out exactly how many trillions have been pumped into the banks by the fed. Funny how that works.

Why the closed county conventions?

Author: Rory B. Bellows

I never understood why the establishment in New Jersey is still the establishment? Sure there are talented, hard working Republicans who count as party establishment, but what have they done? The GOP establishment has presided over 7 years of electoral disaster in our state and now they are trying to rig the GOP Gubernatorial Primary by forcing Chris Christie down our throats. Maybe Chris Christie is the goods. He very well might be the cure for all that ails New Jersey and the down trodden state GOP. But we don’t know that right now. And we’ll never know it because he is being gifted the nomination by attempts by the party to submarine any competition. We don’t know what he stands for. We don’t know how he will hold up under the daily grind of a campaign. He hasn’t run for office in quite some time and he has lost more elections than he has won.

Chris Christie would benefit from a competitive primary. I don’t think anyone would argue that Chairman Obama was a stronger candidate for the general election last November by virtue of having to go head to head with the Clintons over the course of a seemingly endless primary campaign. Competition is good. It’s good for business, the deserving are rewarded and the undeserving are punished, and it will be good for the New Jersey Republican Party.

A great day for freedom in the Stalinist state of New Jersey

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Two- count ‘em two!- victories for individual liberty were achieved in yesterday’s session of the state senate. A rarity to be sure, these were the first two victories for freedom and liberty in New Jersey since Washington crossed the Delaware, as the state senate approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes and a bill stalled that would have restricted residents to one handgun purchase a month. Heroically, every state senate Republcian voted against the handgun bill, but unfortunately did not vote for the medical marijuana bill.

There was an opportunity yesterday for the Republican Party of New Jersey to establish its bona fides as the party of limited government and individual liberty but they only go it half right.

No matter, all residents of New Jersey should celebrate victories of the individual over the state. Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em!

Is Chris Christies the new Thomas Dewey?

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Back in 1948 the Republican Party thought they had a sure winner in the Presidential Election. New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey ran a spirited campaign against FDR in 1944 and performed well in the popular vote totals. In 1948, the Democrats had won 4 straight elections on the strength of FDR’s popularity but they were now saddled with the unpopular Harry Truman who had ascended to the Presidency when FDR died a few months into his fourth term in 1945. The Republicans thought they had it in the bad. The ticket consisted of Gov. Dewey and Gov. Earl Warren of California. This was considered a dream ticket. You had two young, progressive governors of two large, electoral vote rich states and after 16 years of Dems in the WH people were eager for change.

Unfortunately, Dewey ran one of the worst campaigns in American history. He refused to discuss issues and attack his opponent and instead preferred to run a campaign based on vague platitudes because he was operating under the assumption he was a sure winner and he did not want to make any mistakes or offend any constituencies.

This proved to be a disaster. Truman took to the campaign trail like a bat out of hell and traveled the country blasting the Republicans. His attacks resonated with the American public while no one was really sure who or what Dewey stood for. We all know what happened in November.

This is where Chris Christie is going. His milquetoast stands and lack of specifics when discussing issues are the early designs of his front runner campaign. He has a real conservative as a primary opponent and Christie is stuck trying to maintain his moderate image while not offending New Jersey conservatives. He sees John Corzine with weak poll numbers and he does not want to come off too strongly against abomiations like COAH and Abbot because he fears general election backlash in November. He is choosing to say nothing and we all know how well that works out.

My Housing Solution

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Chairman Obama is pushing this new plan to have the earners subsidize the takers by having the government back refinancing mortgages. His rationale is that the earners will benefit from this because empty houses on the block willcause property values to drop. Instead, we have to put 9 million or so at risk loans on the tax payers backs so the irresponsible can continue to live in houses they cannot afford and will never be able to afford.

My solution: raize them. Knok the empty houses down. Ifwe are going to pay people to dig holes and fill them up, which is what Chairman Obama’s swindle us package will do, why not dig holes where these foreclosed properties are and fill them up? The benefit is two fold, instead of trying to maintain housing prices by subsidizing risky mortgages, why not decrease the supply of houses. If people can’t afford to live in a house, they shouldn’t be there and the house never should have been built. Knock them down and let the market sort out what prices should be as opposed to when they were artificially inflated during the government created, looking at your Alan Greenspan, Community Reinvestment Act Supports and Fannie and Freddie Mae, housing bubble. Decrease the supply and prices will rise. It’s simeple economics.

The second benefit is everyone is always whining and complaining about suburban sprawl and open space. This is a simple solution that won’t require Governors to continually stea hundreds of millions of dollars from the tax payers so government can buy land that no one can ever use.

That’s it. My simple solution.

CROWN THIS MAN!

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Who else is in for the Chicago Tea Party??

Since bank nationalization is now all the rage

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Even Allen Greenspan has caught the bug. In that vein, I present a simple thought for the day:

“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to

buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and

mechanical products, pushing them to take more and

more expensive credits, until their debt becomes

unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of

banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the

State will have to take the road which will eventually

lead to communism”

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

Free Speech Under Assault in New Jersey

Author: Rory B. Bellows

The New Jersey State Supreme Court will a challenge to a New Jersey law banning the distribution of information 100 feet from polling places. So what if people can pass out leaflets about candidates at the doors of polling places. It’s not like this mythical 100 foot barrier prevents you from hearing a candidates radio commercial. Every time I go and vote I am able to park right in front of the doors to the polling place. Should I be forced to turn off my car radio so I am not unfairly influenced by the radio commercials that may play? Should I be forced to turn off El Rushbo?

This is just more stupid nanny statism by the state of New Jersey.

Obama’s Socialist America: Catching Wild Pigs

Author: Rory B. Bellows

I saw this anecdote posted ona message board and I thought I would pass it along:

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, ‘Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. ‘You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again.. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, food stamps, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms — just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself

Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

As Thomas Jefferson once said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have”.

Bipartisanship is alive in Washington

Author: Rory B. Bellows

7 House Democrats joined the entire GOP caucus in voting no on the swindle us package ensuring that this bill will be an anchor around the neck of every democrat up for re-election in 2010 and 2012.

Everyone Hates Corzine

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Another day, another dreadful poll for Simple John. According to a new Monmouth University Poll,Fearless Leader has an upside down approval rating. 34% of those who live in the state of denial say he is doing just fine while the 51% of state residents who live in the state of New Jersey, a.k.a. reality, say not so much.

Steve Lonegan: Man with plan

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Offering a dynamic vision of governing in New Jersey, former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan told voters in Cumberland County that he plans to slash state government by 20%, eliminate both the Department of Environnmental Protection and the Council on Affordable Housing and do away with the judicial imposed Abbott funding formula for school districts.

Chris Christie has all he establishment backing but Lonegan is going to have the hearts and minds of the grass roots Republicans who participate in primaries. And if the polls are any indication, Lonegan is in the game for the general election. While Chris Christie lead Corzine by 6 points in a hypothetical match up, Lonegan trailed 42-36. That is a similar position Christie found himself in just two weeks ago and Lonegan does not have Chris Christie’s name identification. Given his ability to raise money, this primary is not going to be as easy for Christie as winning convictions against corrupt New Jersey Democrats.

Obama Makes Me Laugh

Author: Aaron

President Obama just said that “conservative economists” said that government spending a trillion dollars will help the economy.  I don’t know which “conservative economists” said that, but I guess the President has some type of special “conservative economists” that tells him lies.

Talk About Change, Steele Cleans the House

Author: Aaron

It what is actually the only change that has happened since November, Michael Steele fired or “asked” the entire 100 person staff of the RNC to resign.  Steele promised that the Republican Party would be brought back to the party that they once were, and has promised reform.  Maybe Barack Obama will take some notes from Steele, and realize that to conduct change, you have to steer away from the norms of the institution you are joining.