Post Scripts

by Jack

California now has over 1/3rd of the entire welfare population in the nation living right here!  But, take heart, this won’t affect our unemployment numbers..no, no, no.   Our smoke and mirrors reporting methods will make sure you don’t notice how bad it really is.  Welfare recipients are considered employed for statistical purposes and that’s how we’ve kept the awful truth from you.  Unemployment and underemployment in CA is a disaster as big as welfare.    (Being on welfare is a job now?  Only government could come up with that one.)

Updated for 2013:   34% Of the nation’s welfare recipients live in California but only …  12% of the U.S. population resides here. 

Fun facts to amaze your low information voter friends… 

• Ca pays out one of the highest maximum monthly cash grants to the average family on welfare, $638.

• Continues aid for children even when the parents lose eligibility.

• Provides benefits even to some who find a job and helps with child care and transportation while attending school or training.

California is third among states in per-capita spending on welfare:  $179

New York leads the nation: $256, (but if CA wasn’t broke, I’m sure we would lead the nation here too.)

Myth: Most welfare recipients are on benefits a short time. 

At any one time 80% of any given caseload is chronic, repeat for one or more lifetimes.

80% of the money being spent at any one moment in time, is for the chronic, constantly needy, needy by choice, more than circumstances.  The other 20% comes and goes on a regular basis, in one door, out the other, never to be seen again. 

At any moment in time, only 20% of the total, but over a long stretch (say five years), most of the ones helped were short timers, came and went, just like the myth says, most of the recipients on a short time,. . . . . . . but they only use 20% of the total funds available.  80% of the financial help available, goes to those ‘few bad apples.’   That does not sound like a good taxpayer investment to me.  It seems to me the lion share of the money should be spent on the temporarily poor, the poor by circumstances, more than choice.  http://www.urban.org/publications/900288…

• 1 in every 3 blacks are on welfare.
• 1 in every 56 whites are on welfare
• 1 in every 12 Hispanics are on welfare 

These are the facts – feel free to use them to win arguments with liberals.

by Jack

Chico-CA  6 Aug 13, Mayor Mary Goloff lasted just two brief months before she called it quits.  Enter the new old Mayor Scott Gruendel for another try.  This time he has appointed a conservative to be his Vice Mayor.  Mark Sorensen replaces Ann Schwab.  Sorensentook the bold action of bringing his suspicions of financial misdoings before the Butte County Grand jury and after a year long probe, every suspicion was validated and Chico was determined to be 21.4 million dollars in the hole and would be unable to writes checks by the end of November.

This latest shakeup on the council was deemed a step in the right direction, but it fell short of what many would like to see…the departure of both Schwab and Goloff.  Both Councilors were part of the four council nay-sayers when Sorensen and a few concerned citizens, including the Butte Taxpayers Alliance, stepped forward to say something was seriously wrong with Chico’s financial picture and it needed to be investigated quickly.    A majority vote by these liberal prevented council from looking further and allowed the deficit spending to continue.     

by Jack

Today marks the start of the Fort hood shooter’s trial. He killed 13, before he was finally wounded and brought down by a shot fired by a female security guard. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the guy with three names like all the other terrorist assassins, so where’s Jack Ruby when you really need him?

Obama was the first to label this, a simple case of work place violence! And his first concern was, he hoped this would not lead to violence against Muslims.

As we have since learned, Maj. Hasan was guided to his deadly mission in an exchange of emails by none other than arch-terrorist leader Anwar al-Awlaki. Did you know al-Awlaki’s boss had previously been a guest at the White House? 3 times! He was labeled as a patriot and a moderate and he was invited into our White House? “Esam Omeish, former head of the Muslim Brotherhood-created Muslim American Society, visited the White House three times. In 2000, Omeish personally hired the late terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to be the imam of Falls Church, VA.  Dar al-Hijrah mosque. According to IPT analysis, more terrorists have been linked to Dar al-Hijrah since 9/11 than to any other mosque in America. Omeish publicly mourned the Israeli airstrike that killed Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at an April 10, 2004, MAS conference. According to video captured by IPT, Omeish went a step further at the December 22, 2000, Jerusalem Day rally in Washington’s Lafayette Park, praising Palestinian terror groups, saying they had learned “the jihad way” to “liberate” Palestine.

Omeish has continued visiting the White House even after the kill order on Al-Awlaki and even after Al-Awlaki’s death, as recently as March of this year. Omeish heads the Libyan Emergency Taskforce and it would be interesting to know that impact this notorious terrorist supporter had on Obama’s Libyan policy.” Source: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/anwar-al-awlakis-boss-is-regular-white-house-visitor/

Editors note: The morning news on KSTE, 650, 6 Aug. 2013, mistakenly reported it was Anwar al Awlaki that visited the White House.   No, he actually visted the Pentagon just prior to 9-11.   He was a guest speaker and received a free lunch from his military hosts and it was his boss who visited the White House.  Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

I couldn’t make this stuff up, it’s too bizarre and too shocking. But, this is just another page in a large book of grossly inappropriate decisions and poor judgment calls by Obama. Is there anyone today who can say Obama has not made gross blunders and done things inappropriate? If there is, we would love to hear what you have to say!

If there was ever a reason to distrust the motives and ambitions of a President, Obama is the one. As for Major Hasan, he was known by the Army to be a potential problem because of his radical views, but they did nothing. The fear of being accused as anti-Muslim was more compelling than common sense. This is what Obama did for the Army, that an giving medals for not shooting the enemy.

Which begs the question, who in the #$%@ do we have in this White House?

Does anybody really know Obama? You liberals didn’t know squat about the man before you elected him to the Senate and then ran him for President 10 weeks later and look at the destruction, the division, the racial problems, the horrific debt, the invasion of privacy, the prolonged wars and so much more that this man has caused or supported. Some legacy.

Posted by Tina

The President has been in full campaign mode traveling across the country to speak about his fantastic economy and repeat the mantra that we can still do better. His big plan today is the same big plan of yesterday…and the day before that, and, well, since he started campaigning for the presidency a full year before the campaign season of 2008!

You see, he explains, we haven’t spent quite enough yet and if we just spend a bit more, on things like….infrastructure, the economy will really take off…really…it will…cross his heart!

President Obama’s plan feeds off an old progressive belief that infrastructure spending by our government saved the day in times gone by. But is that “history” entirely accurate?

Not according to Larry Schweikart in this Wall Street Journal article:

Henry Ford and dozens of other auto makers put a car in almost every garage decades before the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act in 1956. The success of the car created a demand for roads. The government didn’t build highways, and then Ford decided to create the Model T. Instead, the highways came as a byproduct of the entrepreneurial genius of Ford and others.

Moreover, the makers of autos, tires and headlights began building roads privately long before any state or the federal government got involved. The Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway for cars, pieced together from new and existing roads in 1913, was conceived and partly built by entrepreneurs—Henry Joy of Packard Motor Car Co., Frank Seiberling of Goodyear and Carl Fisher, a maker of headlights and founder of the Indy 500.

Railroads are another example of the infrastructure-follows-entrepreneurship rule. Before the 1860s, almost all railroads were privately financed and built. One exception was in Michigan, where the state tried to build two railroads but lost money doing so, and thus happily sold both to private owners in 1846. When the federal government decided to do infrastructure in the 1860s, and build the transcontinental railroads (or “intercontinental railroad,” as Mr. Obama called it in 2011), the laying of track followed the huge and successful private investments in railroads.

In fact, when the government built the transcontinentals, they were politically corrupt and often—especially in the case of the Union Pacific and the Northern Pacific—went broke. One cause of the failure: Track was laid ahead of settlements. Mr. Obama wants to do something similar with high-speed rail….(continues)

As usual, progressives get the cart before the horse when it comes to government involvement. They also do their utmost to bury the failures that pile up following government intrusion into what is and should continue to be the private sector’s bailiwick.

I hope you will read the entire article, it contains information about plane, train, and automobile related infrastructure that you may never have heard before. You probably have never seen this information written in your child’s schoolbooks, more’s the pity! Our progressive schools wouldn’t want to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit in young people, they might never vote Democrat again!

It would make me so happy to see America become a vibrant and thriving force again with plenty of jobs and opportunity for all of our young people and for all of those of middle aged people who are supposed to be in their most productive years right now. Obama’s economy will be a long 8 lost years for many of our citizens. All we need is a government that will let America be American again! We would still face a lot of work cleaning up the expensive bureaucratic tangle that fifty or more years of progressive big government policies have brought to our nation…but we would be working and producing again…and we could once again save and invest in our own futures and dreams…we could imagine a future for our children once more.

Learning from history requires that we actually know history…in full color and scope! Keep reading America; we’ll get there yet!

COUNCIL MEETING: Chico Council Chambers – City Council meets on every first and third Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm in the Council Chambers. The all day work session scheduled for this year is 6/18/2013 at 8:30 a.m. You can now view City Council meeting video archives, agendas, and minutes online. View Council Meeting video online.

Just a few thoughts to share… the liberal run Chico Homeless Task Force that is funded in part by taxpayer money has been a total flop so far. Not surprised are you?

The “bums-by-choice” population has not been subject to the kindly influence of roaming Ambassadors spreading the love. And they (task force) are still focused on spending other people’s money to build daycare centers and expand the homeless shelters!

The police department has looked for every possible way it could not be helpful and by all accounts they’ve been extremely successful in that regard. When understaffed and overworked, dealing with bum stuff is not a priority. However, by disguising their true sentiments and taking the PC approach they convince the liberals and the liberal council of their warmest sympathies and concerns for the homeless while avoiding (as much as humanly possible) any related police work..a win-win for the police dept. But, who can blame them? I’m just pointing out reality and that they’re really not fooling anyone except the liberals and that’s hardly a challenge. Which reminds me of a joke… Q: What do you call liberals with an IQ of 130? A: A foursome.

The consensus from people I’ve talked with (who were never part of the problem and 100% not liberal) seem to think the so-called homeless population is more a migrant population that ebbs and flows and basically they come here for the free stuff. Some stay on to be mischaracterized by the task force as needy locals down on their luck and in need of daycare centers. Daycare centers… why not a spa too?

The (normal) people think the only controllable factor that is contributing to the homeless population is the number of places that give away all the free stuff. They feel the true number of local people that had an unfortunate run of bad luck that left them homeless is insignificant compared to the bums-by-choice crowd.

The task force is in strong denial of what are the real magnets for bums and that has kept them stuck on stupid. At this point I see their role as something that can only exacerbate the bum problems. Unfortunately, this wrong course will eventually dilute the total aid available to Chico’s real needy, that actually deserve some temporary assistance that is not provided by welfare grants or unemployment insurance.

As you know, the job of the PS is to bring helpful information and thereby help taxpayers get the most bang for their tax-buck, but trying to educate the defiantly-ignorant on our council is probably not going to be anymore productive than the roaming ambassador program. I think we need to focus on how we can get rid of the rascals. Voters must come to know that Chico’s current economic crisis and all the blundering over decades can be directly linked to the liberals on the council and it’s time to name names and hold them responsible through a voter outreach effort.

Get rid of the dolts on the council and you will see the bum population start to evaporate along with a lot of other problems.

by Tina Grazier

You gotta hand it to them! The Democrats are world class when it comes to selling something rotten to the core. That they are deceptive liars, snake oil salesmen, always seems to escape the masses. But the names they create for their products are brilliant. Take the newest tax plan in the works. They have named it the “Inclusive Prosperity Act”. Now you tell me…who wouldn’t be for something that is “inclusive”? This word says, “Everybody gets to play!” It suggests the ultimate in Kumbaya festivals! And “prosperity”? Get out of here! Who doesn’t want (or need) prosperity about now?

So the Democrats say they have a new plan that includes everyone and that will lead to prosperity!

WOW!

Representative Keith Ellison (Dem Minn):

“The bottom line is we’re not broke, there’s plenty of money, it’s just the government doesn’t have it,” said Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), “The government has a right, the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing – all these things.”

I’d like to see where in the Constitution it spells out that “right”! But what he is saying behind all the pretty sounding words is that what you have does not belong to you. The money you earn is not yours IF the government decides it needs more.

During the period we call “The Great Depression,” people were destitute but they knew they had to rely on themselves to scope out scam artists. They developed an acute eye for recognizing a con job from desperate thieves going door to door to sell everything from newfangled gadgets to Bibles…supposedly purchased, but not paid for, by a deceased spouse.

The people today don’t seem to have a con man detector gene. The people today seem eager to fall for anything. The people today cannot find work and those who do find only entry level, part time work, and still they believe the Democrat con.

And so the Democrats trot out their latest con, a tax plan wrapped in pretty words that would take money (property) from private job producing investors. The proposed bill is a real job killer yet because it’s wrapped in pretty words like “inclusive” and “prosperity” people are bound to believe it will cause prosperity and mean good jobs will flow for everyone!

The reality is that it is a plan to take money from investors for the very expensive bureaucratic tangle of government. The people get “help” that keeps them trapped in poverty while the bureaucracy grows and the salaries and benefits of those in the bureaucracy grows. (Notice that Congress pleads and the President wants to deliver an exemption for themselves, and their interns, from Obamacare…they get the gold; we get the shaft!)

Wake up people! Democrat economic policy is an elitist con job! The only plan is to grow the size of government and secure increasing power in Washington DC.

Great minds discuss the state of economic freedom in America and the world…in light of our dumb-ed down state it’s worth a look see for anyone who is tired of living at home and depending on their parents and who are willing to discover the value of capitalism, private property rights, and private charity.

America needs support for the concept that human beings are strongest when they learn to rely on themselves within their own lives and within their communities! Americans can make the economy work but they won’t do it by sending all the wealth to government. Buying the con is the ticket to permanent serfdom.

Posted by Tina

Victims of the Fort Hood terror attack by Maj Nidal Hasan are suing the government for failing to prevent the attack due to preferential treatment due to his ethnicity and religion citing political correctness. One hundred forty-eight victims and relatives have joined the suit which asks for $750 million in compensation.

The U.S. Government characterized the attack, “workplace violence”.

Major Hasan faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in federal court where he has chosen to represent himself. He made the following statements to FOX News over the weekend:

I, Nidal Malik Hasan, am compelled to renounce any oaths of allegiances that require me to support/defend (any – sic) man made constitution (like the constitution of the United States) over the commandments mandated in Islam … I therefore formally renounce my oath of office … this includes my oath of U.S. citizenship.” …

‘My complicity was on behalf of a government that openly acknowledges that it would hate for the law of Almighty Allah to be the supreme law of the land,’ …

‘I would like to begin by repenting to Almighty Allah and apologize to the Mujahideen, the believers, and the innocent. … I ask for their forgiveness for participating in the illegal and immoral aggression against Muslims, their religion and their lands,’ he said in the statement.

Hasan also declared that Sharia Law and the U.S. Constitution are incompatible:

“There is an inherent and irreconcilable conflict. … in an American Democracy ‘we the people’ govern according to what ‘we the people’ think is right or wrong; even if it specifically goes against what All-Mighty God commands.”

The victims have been denied certain benefits and purple hearts because the shootings were designated as workplace violence a situation that many believe is not only shameful but entirely inappropriate.

Hasan’s trial begins Tuesday.

Posted by Tina

US Embassies were ordered closed over the weekend and travel warnings were issued for US citizens after strong and specific terror threats from Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were intercepted. France, Briton and Germany also closed their embassies. There is speculation that the freeing of several high level operatives in recent prison escapes may be related and suggest a resurgence of terror strength and activity:

Interpol warned that al-Qaeda had been strengthened by a series of prison breaks that freed dozens of its followers in recent months in Libya, Iraq and Pakistan.

In a statement it said the jailbreaks “led to the escape of hundreds of terrorists and other criminals”.
It asked its 190 member countries to help “determine whether any of these recent events are coordinated and linked” and to immediately convey any intelligence which could help prevent another attack.

President Obama is holding a high level security meeting while William Kristol asks, “Is Al Qaida on the Run, Or Are We?” and our intelligence community is worried that in his announcement to close embassies the President may have disclosed too much information and compromised our intelligence operations:

Intelligence officials are dismayed that the administration provided so much detail on what prompted the closings, and that the disclosures could work against obtaining new information. Militants are now likely searching for the sources of the information to both the U.S. and Yemeni officials, and almost certainly will kill anyone they suspect of working with Western intelligence.

“There simply are not that many who would know about the attacks,” says one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence officer, “so it won’t be hard for al Qaeda leaders to pin-point the sources of information. Once that happens, they certainly won’t be working with us anymore.”

Other sources are also likely to reconsider their relationship with the United States over the disclosures. “These guys know their lives are in danger. As soon as the U.S. shows we can’t be trusted, they will go under ground and we won’t hear from them again,” says a current intelligence officer.

Intelligence officers reveal the AQAP has grown stronger in the last two years and has developed new weapons of attack. The Presidents careless remarks represent a blow to intelligence capability that will require starting at square one…”We are operating blind,” said one active intelligence officer.

Obama inherited a fairly stable M.E. region with Al Qaida significantly battered and weakened. His polices and posturing have created chaos, increased threats, and significant loss of respect for America in the world. What a mess.

Posted by Tina

Our military men and women deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Most importantly their medical treatment should be stellar and their compensation should be delivered in a timely fashion. Unfortunately there are too many reports that soldiers in need are falling through the bureaucratic cracks. Reuters released it’s findings from a special investigation:

Shawn Aiken is an American veteran of two tours of combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan but he met perhaps his most formidable foe back home—the Defense Department’s finance and accounting department. During treatment for a brain injury, PTSD, and other afflictions, the Army stopped paying Aiken. His salary for December 2011 came in at $117.99. He struggled to pay his medical bills, put food on the table for his family, buy gifts for his young children for Christmas. The Defense Department treated him like a bad soldier and couldn’t explain why he wasn’t being paid.

“Aiken’s case is hardly isolated,” a detailed Reuters investigation reads. “Pay errors in the military are widespread.” The reason is antiquated computer programs and databases that can’t communicate with one another (one uses an obsolete, half-century-old language). “The Pentagon is literally unable to account for itself … The Government Accountability Office said DFAS and the Army have no way to ensure correct pay for soldiers and no way to track errors.”

It’s more than disrespectful and hurtful to the families of soldiers who go into combat to defend the United States and the American people. “It is an incredibly inefficient, wasteful way of doing business,” says the retired commander of the US Central Command.

Our government uses resources to house and track our emails and phone conversations…every keystroke on our computers if they choose to…but they can’t find the resources for a better computer and accounting system for the Department of Defense?

The facility in Utah is 1.5 million square feet…bigger than the Pentagon! How much do you suppose this operation, and its computers cost?

Outrageous!

Posted by Tina

Are you kidding me? The running of the bulls, a la Pamploma, Spain, coming to a city near you? It’s absolutely true according to this AP story:

Organizers of a new event planned for several U.S. cities plan to unleash bulls to sprint through fenced-in courses as daredevils try to avoid being trampled.

The Great Bull Run is inspired by the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. It’s set to kick off Aug. 24 at a drag-racing strip south of Richmond, Va. A second event is planned for Oct. 19 at an Atlanta-area horse park that hosted events for the 1996 Olympics. More events are planned later for Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

The US organizers are cheating a bit. The track has built in escape coves and won’t include running on cobblestone. 5000 people have signed up to participate in Virginia…are they crazy, adventurous…and are they ready for protests from PETA?

It doesn’t strike me as a fun way to spend an afternoon…anyone else up for this?