Thread Good news from the western front.

ENTIRE State of Nevada Scores Obamacare Waiver

Nevada got a partial waiver from the health care law - a significant development that Democrats are dismissing as par for the course and Republicans are claiming as a political victory.

The Health and Human Services Department announced late Friday that Nevada had secured a statewide waiver from certain implementation requirements of the Obama administration's health care law, because forcing them through, the department found, "may lead to the destabilization of the individual market."

The announcement makes Nevada one of only three states to have compliance requirements under the health care bill waived.....



Wait.
Don't tell me.
Hairy Reid had nothing to do with this waiver.
No politics what-so-ever are involved here.

Riiiight. ;)
 
Oregon's electric car charging network is behind schedule

"Behind schedule"....Democratical euphemism for "Haven't even started yet."

With its backyard chicken farms, recycling ethos, and nation-leading love affair with the Toyota Prius, Oregon has long been seen as the perfect test bed for electric cars.

So it was with some collective relief when Oregon's green credibility was reaffirmed in 2009 by its selection as one of six states to participate in the EV Project. The $230 million, stimulus-funded study is geared to put thousands of electric cars on the road across 18 cities, along with a network of more than 8,000 public charging stations, then watch how they get used.

But a funny thing may be happening on the way to the charging station. Oregon consumers, local experts say, haven't been beating the bushes to get their hands on a Nissan Leaf, the only mass-produced, all-electric vehicle currently on the market. Moreover, the vehicles have been slower to arrive than some anticipated......










Probably used the money to prop up a union funding shortfall.

A friend of mine's niece, and her husband....work for Nike. There is an electric car charging station in the area where she usually parks. She went to park in one of the two spots in front of this station....and was told she'd get a Nike ticket if she parked there. When she said she had never even seen a car being charged there.....this person told her she didn't think anyone at Nike has an electric car. :fly:

Two perfectly good parking places going to waste. Typical.
 
Walter E. Williams on welfare:

As gov’t plays ‘father,’ ‘black males have become dispensable’

It’s perhaps not the most politically correct take on welfare in America’s black community, but an interesting one nonetheless.

Walter E. Williams, a George Mason economist and author of “Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?” is not a fan of the welfare state that exists in the country. In an appearance on Thursday night’s “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network, Williams argued that welfare has done more damage to black society than slavery or Jim Crow.

“[T]he welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery could not have done, the harshest Jim Crow laws and racism could not have done, namely break up the black family,” Williams said. “That is, today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two parent families. Historically, from 1870s on up to about 1940s, and depending on the city, 75 to 90 percent of black kids lived in two parent families. Illegitimacy rate is 70 percent among blacks where that is unprecedented in our history.”

But this isn’t just relegated to the American welfare state, but is seen in European welfare states as well.

“Now, it’s not just a matter of a racial thing. Sweden is the mother of the welfare state and illegitimacy in Sweden is 54 percent,” he said.......





From one of the strongest family groups in the the nation....to this....in only 60 years. The Democratics change lives alright.

When Ike was President, we went through urban renewal, and the creation of the interstate highway system. this allowed whites to flee the cities, and simultaneously destroyed relatively stable black neighborhoods....where there was community participation in dealing with problems. Public housing replaced perfectly good older buildings, in the name of progress. And all of this was followed up by LBJs Great Society. The black community, in the truest sense, disappeared. And now? 70% illegitimacy rates for blacks, with many of the girls not knowing who the baby daddy is. In large cities, (D.C., for example) 50% of black teenage girls have STDs.

You would think a <ahem> "black" President would at least try to turn these numbers around. Øbama? Remains silent. And Mrs. Øbama? She talks about gardens and healthy food. She should be talking about responsible behavior on the part of parents.....and the children.


But....If nothing else, Momma will still be there to tell the poh-lice and local media "what a good boy he always was" .....right before the Coroner takes him away.
 
But... .it worked so well all the other times....didn't it?

Dems double down on new spending after discouraging jobs report

House Democrats this week have amplified their calls for new spending on infrastructure and other federal projects in the face of May's discouraging job-creation figures.

Even as Republicans are insisting on "trillions" of dollars in spending cuts, Democrats maintain that a targeted injection of additional federal dollars in the near-term would go a long way toward reversing the hiring slump. Friday's disappointing job report, they say, only bolsters their case.....



We could prob'ly use some more regulations....too.

So.....the plan is.....pour more money (that the GOVERNMENT doesn't have) into useless programs? Haven't they learned anything from the failed stimulus that created no jobs?


Reminds me of a Three Stooges episode when they were in a leaking boat. One of 'em takes a hand drill and drills holes in the bottom of the boat to let the water out.
 
You would think a <ahem> "black" President would at least try to turn these numbers around. Øbama? Remains silent. And Mrs. Øbama? She talks about gardens and healthy food. She should be talking about responsible behavior on the part of parents.....and the children.

So what I gather is that you want government to be responsible for raising your children? Oh wait, never mind. I see that's just a way to blame Obama. Gotcha. ;)
 
Obama is a socialist? Whoever believes that either doesn't know anything about Obama, or they don't have a clue what socialism is.
 
Come to America and get rich.

Prosecutor: Store owner accused of massive food-stamp fraud also had government assistance for his family

After reporting low income and virtually no assets, the government says, Ahmed Sheikh Mohamed got help for food, housing, heating, medical treatment and college costs for his family.

He didn't disclose that his small Grand Rapids grocery store deposited $800,000 from 2006 to 2009. Or, that he made $60,000 annually in food-stamp fraud. Or, that he routinely moved cash in a business account to an account for personal spending, which included a $15,000 family vacation in Mecca, the government said.....




This man and his family scammed the system. Where did he learn to do this? Where are the GOVERNMENT employees charged with preventing this type of fraud? How many others are doing the same (or similar) thing?

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From the Article:
The government alleged $474,000 in food-stamp fraud.

It also said Mohamed and his family wrong received $46,605 in SNAP benefits; $4,313 in Women, Infant and Children benefits; $44,873 in rent subsidies; $57,963 in Medicaid benefits; $300 in emergency heating assistance; and $24,678 in Pell Grants.



Proof positive of why no one's taxes should be raised. NOT ONE DIME....until this type of fraud is eliminated from our federal budget.
 
actually that's not proof positive of why at all. especially since that type of fraud exists in far greater excess at the top level income and corporate tax levels. welfare fraud is a drop in the bucket compared to corporate tax fraud so no one's taxes should be lowered one dime until that's eliminated from the federal budget
 
Come to America and get rich.

Prosecutor: Store owner accused of massive food-stamp fraud also had government assistance for his family

After reporting low income and virtually no assets, the government says, Ahmed Sheikh Mohamed got help for food, housing, heating, medical treatment and college costs for his family.

He didn't disclose that his small Grand Rapids grocery store deposited $800,000 from 2006 to 2009. Or, that he made $60,000 annually in food-stamp fraud. Or, that he routinely moved cash in a business account to an account for personal spending, which included a $15,000 family vacation in Mecca, the government said.....




This man and his family scammed the system. Where did he learn to do this? Where are the GOVERNMENT employees charged with preventing this type of fraud? How many others are doing the same (or similar) thing?

http://media.mlive.com/grpress/news_impact/photo/ahmed-sheikh-mohamed-1jpg-d11f745272264377.jpg




From the Article:
The government alleged $474,000 in food-stamp fraud.

It also said Mohamed and his family wrong received $46,605 in SNAP benefits; $4,313 in Women, Infant and Children benefits; $44,873 in rent subsidies; $57,963 in Medicaid benefits; $300 in emergency heating assistance; and $24,678 in Pell Grants.



Proof positive of why no one's taxes should be raised. NOT ONE DIME....until this type of fraud is eliminated from our federal budget.

You're right. Taxes SHOULD NOT be raised. But we should probably start on the tax evasion fraud by corporations and wealthy Americans before we worry about amounts like that.
 
and petty fucking politicians

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/usopen11/news/story?id=6674718

It was a case of bureaucracy run amok, at least from the perspective of the children operating a lemonade stand for charity near the U.S. Open.

Kids from two families put up the stand on private property -- a neighbor's yard that just happens to be on a corner across from a spectator entrance to Congressional.

During Thursday's first round, they received three visits from county officials, twice with a warning. The third time, a citation was issued for operating the stand without a permit. It carried a fine of up to $500 and required a court appearance.