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Several key items today, beginning with Fox News on-line’s Chris Stirewalt correctly suggesting that people, “Remember that while the redistributive properties of ObamaCare are causing mainstream Americans to recoil from the president and his health law, redistribution is its cardinal virtue to many on the left. Obama’s law turns insurance companies into vehicles for redistribution: heavily regulated, highly protected public utilities with a social-engineering mission.” 

 

In that regard, I looked for a quote I thought made by J Paul Getty saying that if you redistributed the world’s wealth evenly amongst all, in a short time it would wind up right back where it is now. However, I couldn’t find it, but  discovered another on brainyquote.com  that applies just as well. “Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.” The exact opposite of leftist philosophy.

 

And that’s the point that theoreticians, academician’s and  philosophical types always miss. Lacking in practical hands-on working experience they have no sense or understanding of what income production is all about. In their experience, money comes from some unknown place and is not only always there for the taking, it's owed to them.

 

Along the same lines of the problems created by lack of experience or knowledge, aside from ruining the economy in general, reducing the work-week for millions and increasing long-term unemployment to record numbers, to cite just a few examples of absolute, unequivocal mismanagement in governance, Mr.Stirewalt further notes that “For the first time in 40 years, a majority of Americans believe U.S. global power and prestige are in decline. A new Pew Research Center  poll shows 53 percent of people believe the U.S. is playing a less important role as a world leader than a decade ago and 70 percent said the U.S. is respected less than in the past.”

 

Doing some quick arithmetic, I found that those in office 40 years ago were Nixon, followed by Jimmy Carter. Wonderful leaders to be compared to. 

 

Regarding the subject of world leadership and the bungled job of handling Iran’s nuclear build-up and the slap-dash accord being negotiated, Fox’s James Rosen, reported that, “Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to anticipate one line of criticism about the accord -- that it effectively cedes to the Islamic regime the right to enrich uranium, despite half a dozen U.N. Security  Council resolutions declaring the activity illegal.” 

 

To preemptively, address the subject yesterday, Kerry claimed that “In 2003, when the Iranians made an offer to the former administration with respect to their nuclear program, there were 164 centrifuges That offer was not taken. Subsequently, sanctions came in, and today there are 19,000 centrifuges and growing." Obviously trying to put the major blame on "W."

 

But, if you do the homework that Mr. Rosen did, you find out that, “Roughly 25 percent of the regime's current total of centrifuges had been installed when the Bush-Cheney era ended. Put another way: Roughly 74 percent of the centrifuges Iran now has on hand were installed since the Obama-Biden team assumed office. Analysts say 10,000 of the total are actively enriching uranium to low levels, inconsistent with nuclear weapons production but well suited to the task should a decision be made to pursue that goal.” 

 

So, here again we have the administration relying on their belief that nobody bothers to check any facts, which used to work before news was broadcast full-time daily. But, as the preceding statistics have illustrated clearly, that kind of purposeful misdirection doesn’t work anymore. People today, especially younger ones get their input electronically like the comments gathered by Lauren Ashburn Fox News Channel Top Twitter Talk, who writes: “John Boehner on this Congress being least productive ever: "We've done our work!" 

 

Ms Ashburn continues, “And he blames the other guys, saying, "The House continues to do its job. It's time for the Senate to get serious about doing theirs." 

Jennifer Bendery who covers the White House for Huffington Post tallies up the numbers: “The 113th Congress has passed 55 bills into law this year, seven fewer at this point than the 112th Congress, making it, at least for now, the least productive Congress in history. 

“The 2014 calendar for the House shows members will work 113 days, down from 126 days in 2013. In 2012, 107 days were scheduled.” 

 

Now, what I don’t understand about this one is why these pundits believe that politicians should be measured by the number of laws they pass. Especially in a nation that at present is so buried in legislation that already exits, citizens keep losing freedoms every passing day. The healthcare tax alone contains something like 20,000 pages. 

 

Consequently, we’d all be far better off if the number of new bills Speaker Boehner presented was zero. 

 

And lastly, I couldn’t let today go by without noting that, according to Yahoo News,  and AP writers Ben Neary in Cheyenne, Wyo., Blake Nicholson in Bismarck, N.D., and Scott Sonner in Reno, Nev., who all contributed to this report: “Areas of Montana and the Dakotas were forecast to reach lows in the minus-20s, while parts of California could see the thermometer drop to the 20s. The icy arctic blast was expected to be followed by another one later in the week, creating an extended period of cold weather that hasn't been seen since the late 1990s, meteorologists said. 

 

Officials warned residents to protect themselves against frostbite if they are going to be outside for any length of time.” 

 

All of which means there’s likely now going to be trillions of taxpayer’s dollars spent to defend against the effects of the oncoming perils of global cooling. 

 

That’s it for today folks. 

 

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