Obama stimulus plan is to buy republicans

The forth coming Obama administration, already rivaling Bill Clinton as the most morally bankrupt in history and he hasn’t even taken the oath yet, has as part of his economic stimulus as much as $310 million in “tax cuts to individuals and businesses” to buy republican support.  This is the classic rope a dope mentality from the democrats old tired playbook.  Obama will push this tax cut to get a few republicans to go along so he can claim it’s bipartisan.  This will supposedly get him off the hook when his plan of giving a tax cut to low income earners who already don’t pay taxes, or other liberal special interests doesn’t work.

The rest of his plan will rely on government spending the likes of which most people alive today haven’t seen before.  Should we be focusing on infrastructure, certainly but we should start with infrastructure to secure our borders, secure our ports, secure our system of government.  Then we should move on to the interstate highway system which is an absolute joke.  Most highways in the system need expansion, some need triple the capacity they have today.  Look at any major metropolitan area in the country and you have people sitting in traffic for hours on end.

One discussion you won’t see when it comes to Obama’s stimulus plan is how do we pay for it.  Now the tax cuts if done in the right places will obviously pay for them selves but only if they are geared to the top end and businesses, capital gains, etc.  A tax cut on the lower end serves no purpose and you might as well just send a check to those in the low income brackets.  However the rest of Obama’s plan will be to spend spend spend and I seriously doubt we’re going to see any cuts in government spending in other areas to offset this cost.

Hopefully congressional republicans will be smart enough to see through this but I am not very optimistic.

Time to abolish the minimum wage

First off let me begin by saying that what I suggest won’t happen anytime soon if ever.  Bush lacks the votes and probably the stomach to even bring it up and Obama is too beholden to the unions even if he had the temerity to suggest it which he wouldn’t.

That said with the economy straining under the weight of too large a government it’s time we stimulate the economy in a way that only government can.  Remove the minimum wage and you give small businesses more control over their labor costs, they can determine the value of their labor, they will have greater control over the size and cost of their workforce.  Anything we can do to remove an unnecessary regulation on the small business owner will translate into keeping prices low.

In some states such as Oregon you have higher minimum wage levels than the rest of the country.  Oregon’s minimum wage is now $8.40 per hour.  This just recently increased from $7.95 in a state with an unemployment rate already over 8% ranking it 47th in the nation.  Talk about making a bad situation worse, that rate will surely climb to 10% or higher in the next 18 months.

Unemployment Rank	State	Unemployment Rate	Min Wage	Rank
39	ILLINOIS	7.3%	$7.75	5
39	OHIO	7.3%	$7.30	9
43	GEORGIA	7.5%	$6.55	28
44	NORTH CAROLINA	7.9%	$6.55	28
45	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	8.0%	$7.55	6
45	NEVADA	8.0%	$6.85	27
47	OREGON	8.1%	$8.40	2
48	CALIFORNIA	8.4%	$8.00	4
48	SOUTH CAROLINA	8.4%	$6.55	28
50	RHODE ISLAND	9.3%	$7.40	7
51	MICHIGAN	9.6%	$7.40	7

Unemployment data from: http://www.bls.gov/web/laumstrk.htm
Minimum wage data from: http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm

As you can see of the 11 states with the worst unemployment 7 of them also have rank in the top 10 states with the highest minimum wage.  Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina have no minimum wage so the federal wage was used.

This illustrates that this mandate whether done at the federal or state level the minimum wage does nothing to help people, it artificially inflates the cost of goods and services.  It’s time to remove this failure of liberalism and for our economy’s sake the sooner the better!

Stupidity Reigns at the RNC

RNC Chairman Mike Duncan didn’t have the sense to serve out the remainder of his disastrous tenure quietly.  No presiding over congressional losses that will mark the darkest time for the Republican Party in modern history isn’t enough.  Mr. Duncan still doesn’t seem to understand why he is such a colossal failure.

Via the Politico

The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our party.

No Mr. Duncan the 2008 election was an illustration of what happens when Republicans compromise their principles.  Republicans did as you suggest in 2008 and have nothing to show for it.  Mr. Duncan is railing against Chip Saltsman who is seeking to be his replacement and Mr. Saltsman’s decision to send copies of Paul Shanklin’s CD “We HATE the USA” to members of the committee choosing the next head of the RNC.  The CD contains the song “Barack the Magic Negro” in reference to the LA Times March 2007 article by David Ehrenstein which was ignored by the left until it was parodied by Shanklin and given wide play by Rush Limbaugh.

Part of Saltzman’s plan was noted in the Politico article as follows:

I believe that countering an emboldened Democratic Party, led by the Obama-Reid-Pelosi troika, requires an aggressive national strategy. This campaign’s message cannot depend upon traditional media outlets or communication methods. It will require building upon new media and developing and mastering new tactics.

I agree with much of the statement but I am not sure if Mr. Saltzman is the answer to the party’s problems.  There is so much institutional garbage at the RNC and the true answer would be to fire nearly everyone there and start over with people that actually have principles and that’s not likely to happen.  The truth is though that we couldn’t do any worse than the disaster that Mike Duncan has brought.

 

Obama-Blagojevich Needs a Special Prosecutor

Not that we could depend on Bush to do anything viewed as confrontational but it is time that we had a special prosecutor investigate the circumstances surrounding the auctioning of Obama’s senate seat.  Obama’s own people have investigated themselves and surprisingly enough have come to the conclusion that they did nothing wrong. 

We learn now (via The Smoking Gun) that federal prosecutors have interviewed Obama and members of his staff on the contact they have had with Don Blago and his chief of staff John Harris regarding the sale of Obama’s senate seat.  Did Obama or a member of his staff promise Blago something if he makes certain appointments?  Did he agree to campaign for Blago in exchange for appointing someone favorable to the forth coming Obama administration?

We certainly have had investigations for much less, I realize that things like this are normal for Chicago and Illinois in general, but will Americans tolerate this kind of scandal from an administration that hasn’t yet taken office?  We thought the Clinton years were the most corrupt in American history but with the vote stealing going on in Minnesota and all we may be heading into uncharted waters even for the democrat party and that’s saying something given its history.

Why would we listen to Colin Powell?

Ok so the CNN interview with former Sec. of State Colin Powell and his line about the republican party needing to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh is getting more attention than it deserves.  For the life of me can’t figure out what planet CNN is broadcasting from because the republican party, and the country at large quit following the Limbaugh doctrine in 1995 after they won back congress.

Since then the republican party has ceased to be conservative.  This party has become more like Colin Powell, a weak minded liberal idiot who seems to forgets that republicans win elections when we have conservative candidates and we lose when our candidates have lost sight of conservative principles.

Sec. Powell should crawl back under his rock and stop campaigning for a cabinet post in Obama’s cabinet.  That cupboard can’t handle anymore idiots!

Change is in the wind

Well my friends change seems to be the mantra these days we’re no different.  There is finally a movement gaining steam to take back the republican party from the weak kneed, can’t we all get along, types.  We here at Conservative Superiority will be part of this movement.

It is time that Conservatives start taking this party back at every level.  Yes the national party is the biggest problem in terms of our weak candidates for federal office but our local county organizations have in many cases fallen in the same rut that the national party has.  Get involved locally, work with like minded people in your area and take back your local party.  This is where we will see our future leaders come from.

So in the coming weeks this site will move and probably change names.  We will focus on a variety of issues but the theme will remain conservatism and clearly articulating conservative values.

 

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