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Excellent point! I was forwarded this information in a email from long-time friend. I had to dig to find the source, which was apparently an editorial from Investor Business Daily - Here is the link. There is no by-line.

He had health care available.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/sc...

Of course it was all the Army Corps of Engineers, it had nothing to do with New Orleans, all the New Orleans government was the victim, it was the nasty federal government that was at fault.

Hillary Clinton admits she not only had a private e-mail server, but that she wiped the server as well.

Most of the rich selfish people in the US are Democrats

Not actually true. Two of her aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, used clintonemail.com addresses too. So any communications between the three of them are potentially lost.

I'm too lazy right now to find an unbiased source of the info but I originally heard it on NPR yesterday. First Google search lands here. The latest NYT articles definitely mention Abedin having a clintonemail account.

Emails between Abedin, Clinton and the wife of the Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi apparently fell into the memory hole. Not really interested in the Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy chatter but this was backdoor diplomacy that should have had some sort of record, even if it ended up classified.

Wheeler is the FCC chairman, from article "Wheeler has refused to release the 332-page plan he wants the commission to approve on Thursday, citing FCC tradition as the reason."

Imvestors Daily Article

Everyone knows this is just the start of the regulations! There will be more to come in the future.

Also from the article

"It's unlikely making the rules available would change the vote's outcome - Democrats have a 3-2 advantage. But the public deserves nothing less than to see what FCC has in store for the Internet before the commissioners cast their ballots."

Good or bad, not sure. Just my 2 cents.

The government takeover of healthcare is the next to last item on the liberal list to dismantle Freedom and the American Way of Life that has made us so successful up until now. The ability to determine life and death would hold huge power over the populace and the courts are so corrupt they've already upheald the right to tax you and then kill you. The final step in the coffin will be UN Agenda 21 and the UN scheme to use climate change to end America one and for all and create an all world government with full control.

Really? Climate change is a Bible thumper thing? AI? Nano Tech? Sounds more like the left, not the right.

No - it's an effort to destroy the most successful world economies. They even admit that's the goal. Nothing to do with "environmentalism".

http://news.investors.com/ibd-...

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, an unindicted co-conspirator in the cover-up of the IRS Tea Party targeting by Lois Lerner, confirmed Tuesday in a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee that an illegal alien who filed tax returns using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) will be eligible to amend the returns for the three prior years to collect the EITC once he or she obtains a valid Social Security number.

He's on the opposite side of the political spectrum as the source you have issues with, and is an authority in places ot know such things, *and* he said this stuff under oath to Congress.

They hate the "lady" too ...
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062614-706434-a-godzilla-is-turned-loose-from-the-justice-department.htm
I can hardly decide what to include in my quote or not ... she's a winner, she sounds like she's on a crusade and nothing's going to stop her, not even being provably wrong:

Politics: After she destroyed Arthur Andersen in a flawed and subsequently overturned prosecution, the Senate has confirmed Leslie Caldwell to lead the DOJ's criminal division, giving her a mandate for even more mayhem.

You'd think someone who had thrown 85,000 people out of work, as this former Enron task force chief prosecutor did in her indictment of Arthur Andersen, before the whole thing was thrown out by a 9-0 Supreme Court, would go quietly from the public spotlight. Not so with Caldwell, a notoriously anti-business activist who in concert with the Obama White House is instead failing upward.

Her appointment over 700 Justice Department lawyers is bad news for an already beleaguered private sector, given her "wise guys" view of Wall Street.

Sidney Powell, former Justice Department counsel, sounded the alarm first. "Americans should brace themselves for an unprecedented assault on businesses, banks and political opponents of this administration — regardless of law or facts," he says in the New York Observer.

"Expect increasing use of the Department of Justice as an instrument of 'terror' to extort large civil penalties or fines from businesses under the threat of criminal prosecution and the death penalty that Ms. Caldwell and her cronies dealt Arthur Andersen."

It's not just that the woman has a record of doing anything for a conviction — including concealing exculpatory evidence, as her task force did in the Enron case. She's also a political animal who specializes in high-profile cases and handles political pressure with no sweat.

Combine that with recent statements by Attorney General Eric Holder, who vowed he would not leave his Justice Department post until he can prosecute Wall Street over the 2008 financial crisis, as has long been demanded by Occupy and other elements of the far left.

The five-year statute of limitations for such prosecutions is set to run out in the next few months — making Caldwell so valuable.

It doesn't help that Kathryn Ruemmler, until recently a White House counsel who helped select and vet Caldwell, was also an Enron task force member whose prosecutions of four Merrill Lynch officials were thrown out because the task force hid evidence.

Another task force member that Caldwell mentored, Matthew Friedrich, led the baseless prosecution of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. That case was also thrown out but not before the Republican lost his seat.

All in all, it looks like Obama, Holder & Co. are lowering a political blunderbuss at the private sector as the election season heats up and the White House pulls out all the stops to whip up populist support.

Leftists are lazy, often histrionic personality disordered, and use fascism to achieve their political goals when their opponents don't acquiesce. Case in point:

http://www.science20.com/scien...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

http://news.investors.com/poli...

To be clear, them unfriending you is just an example of censorship and shutting down discourse when it suits them, which is a classic tool of fascists.

That's because the next time it won't be with carpet knives.

No, it's because hijacking of airplanes ended on 9/11. Unless you can get more hijackers than passengers onto a plane (or at least enough hijackers to physically overpower the passengers) it can no longer work. It only worked before because passengers figured if they just went along all would end well and they would be - at worst - inconvenienced. That changed on 9/11/2001.

There have been people try to hijack planes since then. Here's one story:

http://news.investors.com/ibd-...

6 people tried to hijack a plane - 4 of them survived. I probably don't have to explain it but the other 4 didn't exactly "meet their objectives" if you know what I mean.

Here's a guy who actually had a gun on the plane - I think he was the one who's life was saved by the police who stormed the plane after it landed. He had boiling water thrown on him before the beating:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Again, he had two guns, it didn't matter.

Hijacking was ruined by Mohammed Atta and friends 13 years ago. Since then we had the shoe bomber (failed) and Smokey the Terrorist who set fire to his own penis (brilliant) before being subdued by the other passengers. Even on Flight 77 over Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001 the passengers found out what was going on, but the hijacker was able to ditch the plane before they breached the cabin door. The sap that they had left out to keep an eye on the passengers was burned with boiling water and beaten with a fire extinguisher - keep that in mind in case you have stupid hijacking friends and they want to lock you outside the cabin.

Meanwhile at Google, Google Scientists Admit Renewable Energy Can't Work

> in the last fifteen years the CDC budget has doubled

Think about the inflation when you provide numbers over 15 years. Since 2000, the budget is 188% bigger but inflation gives a 140% factor. The increase rate is given by (budget2000 - budget2014 * 140%) / budget2000 = 148%. Most increase is between 2000 and 2004 for NIH. After there is a decrease taking into account the inflation.

Just do a search on "IRS lies to congress". PLENTY of citations there. Here's just a few.

Just to be pedantic, organizations don't lie, people do, though I know there is a great tendency to personify organizations. The IRS didn't lie to Congress, people in the IRS lied to Congress. Likewise, the NSA didn't lie in (fill in an occurrence here), people belonging to the NSA lied. At times, multiple high-ranking personnel of such organization, even the heads, may have even ordered such lies to occur. Labeling these situations as "ThreeLetterAgency lied" is designed to imply that all personnel of such agencies therefore also lie, and that is not true, but it make for great ad hominem attacks, and is widely used here on Slashdot.

Just do a search on "IRS lies to congress". PLENTY of citations there. Here's just a few.

farmers the world over have been amongst the most skeptical of the whole thing because they have weather and climate records that go back hundreds of years.

People seem to forget that farmers were the first climatologists. And to this day, the most accurate predictions about the weather and climate changes actually come from the agro sector.

Silly publications like the Old Farmer's Almanac consistently out predict the pHDs and super computers of climate academia.

example:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-...

Now, does that mean global warming isn't real? No... but it does mean that farmers especially feel they understand the climate at least as well as anyone else... and they're therefore less inclined to accept the opinion of experts without more information. And that information has to be in line with their existing information... which as cited... remains at least as accurate in its ability to predict the future as anyone else... if not a great deal more accurate.

iPhone is the luxury market?
http://news.investors.com/tech...

Also, http://www.slate.com/blogs/bus...

âoeAn Android User Is Worth One-Fourth of an iOS User.â

It would change America's mindset. If suddenly the "freeloaders" and system "cheaters" couldn't extract cash from an ATM with their foodstamp card, then they would have to go about it a different way.

There are plenty of cases where people live in gov't funded housing, get food stamps, slang drugs and have more than I do as professional. Take away the gov't funded housing, and suddenly they have some skin in the game... makes fuckin' sense to me. Maybe they find other avenues of illegitimate income, but maybe they don't. Either way, if we keep closing loopholes, eventually they have to do it the way I am.

Yeah, let's get rid of the freeloaders and cheaters.

From FTA:

http://news.investors.com/0310...

The 1% Handouts

Instead, a surprisingly large amount of federal money is handed out to wealthy Americans through Social Security, Medicare, farm subsidies, unemployment benefits, conservation programs, disaster payments and other programs.

An IBD analysis found that the richest 1% of Americans, in fact, receive roughly $10 billion each year in federal checks.

Outgoing Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who exposed these vast payment programs available to the rich, said "this reverse Robin Hood-style of wealth distribution is an intentional effort to get all Americans bought into a system where everyone appears to benefit."

Unfortunately, 70% of Federal Government spending is simply checks to others, it's already redistributing income (over $2 trillion a year) at a massive rate. I fear if it continues, more and more jobs will simply move overseas - and thus the vicious cycle continues.

What I would do is the following:

- Set the personal income tax rate to 20% - that includes income taxes and SSI/FICA. Flat - even for everyone, no deductions. Make the US personal income tax system simple, easy, and attractive - you know EXACTLY how much you're going to pay, right up front.

- Zero out the corporate income tax. 0%. Become the ultimate tax haven for every company in the world. Manufacturing, financial, IT - no one has a 0% tax rate, except the US.

Focus on doing what you can to grow the economy and build jobs here, rather than trying to simply pay people to not work. It's what we're doing now (70% of Federal spending), and it's not working.

Well, good news -- the only "not a good sign" you're seeing is from these idiot analysts who, collectively, are wrong about 90% of the time when it comes to Apple. If you care to hear what Apple themselves have to say...

WSJ: Apple has never made a billion-dollar acquisition. Google is snapping up everyone including your old friends at Nest. Does this alter how you think about bigger deals?

Cook: We've looked at big companies. We don't have a predisposition not to buy big companies. The money is also not burning a hole in our pocket where we say let's make a list of 10 and pick the best one. We're not doing that. We have no problem spending ten figures for the right company that's the right and that's in the best interest of Apple in the long-term. None. Zero.

But we're not going to go out and buy something for the purposes of just being big. Something that makes more fantastic products, something that's very strategic -- all these things are of interest and we're always looking regardless of size.

WSJ interview with Tim Cook, 2/14/2014

If you've been paying attention to Apple for the last 15 years, you know they aren't usually stupid, panicky, or reactionary. Remember when everyone was saying the *had* to make a netbook? And then they didn't, and then that market segment dissolved? And instead they made the iPad and took over the world? Good times.

Or how about RIGHT NOW, when everyone is saying they *have* to make a bigger and/or cheaper phone, and they aren't, and they're STILL taking 87% of the market's profits -- almost THREEE TIMES as much as their next-closest competitor? (Samsung, 32%)

Believe it or not, there are some smart people still in that place. The brains and vision didn't disappear with Jobs. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to get pageviews or sell you something. I'm not saying they'll be the leader forever, but they're not going away anytime soon.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-...

Environmental special interests managed to dismantle the system by diverting water meant for farms to pet projects, such as saving delta smelt, a baitfish. That move forced the flushing of 3 million acre-feet of water originally slated for the Central Valley into the ocean over the past five years.

Your main problem is that no-one else agrees with you.

How do you conclude that "no-one else agrees" with him based on that link? Just because you have found some sources that are contradictory to his point does not make him wrong, you know I can find a variety of different opinions on climate change too. Your main problem is that you believe that because it came from investors.com it must be right even though you dont understand it at all.

Complain to them, not someone who is merely repeating facts of the matter.

Why are you repeating it if you don't even understand it enough to refute his point? His point is valid, how is it that an industry can "lose profit"? Or even make a negative profit? The profit does not include the loss that is why profit and loss are two separate things, combining them is a disingenuous attempt to fool people who don't understand the concept and not only did you get fooled but you are propagating that nonsense.

Your main problem is that no-one else agrees with you.

Complain to them, not someone who is merely repeating facts of the matter.

I assumed y'all were smarter than a bag of hammers, and could google up more current results yourself. My mistake! You really *can* be that stupid!

Since you are so inept, here you go.

Sorry, Samsung was 32%, I was rounding a bit from memory - Apple was also higher, 87.4%.

time to cut full time down maybe 20-32 hours.

Let's start with 32 hours / 4 days a week with an end to the salary no OT pay or maybe a high mini level of pay to have the no OT pay say 100K+ COL

Also an high H-1B min wage say 125k+

Obamacare defines full time as 30+ hours: http://news.investors.com/poli...

So naturally all the places that would rather the government pay for healthcare cut their employees hours down to 29/week. Now they're complaining about not having enough qualified employees.....

When was the last time you saw a Walmart with most of the shelves stocked and the registers open?

Am I "the above poster" you are referring to? I can't tell. Sure, there are lots of lessons there for IT and project management types that are purely non-political, but as I said elsewhere, the Healthcare.gov mess in inextricably entwined with politics. Whether you care about politics or not, it's not off-topic to talk about how it make this disaster.

Whoever accepts the bid has only the track record of the bidder and their word to go by. Unless the bidder has a terrible, or complete lack of reputation, you can't really blame the person accepting the bid.

In this case, the contractor had a bad track record, but they had crony connections with the White House.

Now they can buy a few billion more rounds of ammunition!

3 alternate links. Take your pick:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell120313.php3

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2013/12/03/a-challenge-to-our-beliefs-n1756023/page/full

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/120213-681322-blacks-working-class-whites-were-similar-before.htm?p=full

Let them eat Obamacare

http://www.investors.com/image/RAMclr-101713_CLR.jpg.cms

(Michael Ramirez is the most awesome cartoonist ever)

His other stuff:
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/

Let them eat Obamacare

http://www.investors.com/image/RAMclr-101713_CLR.jpg.cms

(Michael Ramirez is the most awesome cartoonist ever)

His other stuff:
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/

Yeah, he did say terrorism once. And then there were all these other "it was the video" incidents. If he felt it was terrorism, he should have shown it with his actions rather than doing whatever he could to place the blame on a video (the guy went to JAIL after all).

If you can take a cartoon of it:
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/629942-barack-obama-white-house-benghazi-terrorist-attack

The Obama administration is paranoid obsessive about controlling the press and spouting half-truths, and career journalists have branded Obama as the least accessable president they have ever encountered.

Sure they like to flout that Obama has conducted more interviews than any president before him. But Obama intentionally selects outlets where he can evade scrutiny. His "interviews" have largely been on entertainment shows. When preparing for the precious few press interviews, Obama selects journalists who are least likely to challenge him. The administration exploits social media and prepared videos/press releases to evade scrutiny. At his "press conferences" in the WH he abruptly leaves the podium after delivering his prepared statements to ignore journalists trying to confront him with questions. WH spokesman Jay Carney shows an evasive disposition that has resulted in increasing confrontation from an increasingly skeptical and frustrated press.

Obama has admitted that he intends to punish his political enemies. Intimidation, harassment, and retaliation are tools frequently deployed, witness the IRS singling out conservative groups and other federal agencies targetting businesses and individuals who have either criticized the administration or contributed funding to opposition movements. Dr. Ben Carson was endured his first ever IRS audit less than four months after delivering a speech critical of the administration, with a visibly steaming Obama sitting two seats away from him. The Rev Billy Graham was audited after he endorsed Mitt Romney during the 2012 campaign.

Obama had the mainstream press in his pocket until they learned of his betrayal when the DoJ ordered the search of phone records of Associated Press organizations. Their eyes were finally opened to the manipulations of the administration and they have turned on him. Not all of the news outlets have followed suit but they are changing their stripes one by one.

Obama (and Hillary) were disciples of Saul Alinsky, whose "Rules for Radicals" book encourages ad hominem tactics, deception, harassment, any means necessary to accomplish an agenda. Indeed, Saul Alinsky dedicated his book to Satan.

For those of you who voted for a new hope, you have no idea of the deception that was handed to you.

Be careful what you say about politicians.

That's the basis for what is happening now. Obamacare will increase our debt at least $180 billion over the next 10 years. It's not going to help our budget situation at all, and the President unilaterally (and, most likely, illegally) delaying implementation of just parts of the bill doesn't help either.

Better cartoon.

Sure, people might like parts of Obamacare, but the thing as a whole is killing our economy. Just ask the workers who are now part time because their employers can't afford Obamacare.

It is not like this administration hasn't done similar things before.

Wow, I had no idea. I just Googled the Fort Hood thing. What a bunch of bullshit.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/080813-666892-shawn-manning-says-fort-hood-not-workplace-violence.htm

And don't forget the role of the Community Reinvestment Act: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/071213-663606-proposed-new-bank-law-would-solve-problems-that-dont-exist.htm

Politifact: Is the penalty less than the cost of insurance? TRUE
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jan/24/ron-desantis/desantis-says-obamacare-tax-cheaper-insurance/

CBO estimates that 6 million people will pay penalty rather than buy insurance in 2014; also, IRS says the cheapest insurance for a family under the ACA will be $20,000. (I think the CBO estimates will prove to be very low. $20K is more than the pre-ACA average cost of insurance for a family.)
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/03/05/six-million-to-pay-obamacare-penatly-n1526185

Columnist spells out the details on why the penalty is cheaper than insurance and says he already cancelled his insurance. (He thinks this implies that the ACA will "crash" and that the architects of the ACA are worried. I think this is an intended feature, paving the road for single payer.)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/01/25/Politifact-Ignores-Primary-Reason-Obama-Might-Crash

Investors Business Daily asks "will only suckers buy insurance under the ACA?" and suggests insurance companies are headed for a "death spiral" (words in original).
http://news.investors.com/021913-644948-will-only-suckers-buy-obamacare-coverage.htm?p=full

The union stepped up and did their part, and management screwed them, and refused to make an actual management changes.

Actually, no.

I followed this story. The way it actually worked:

Hostess went into bankruptcy in 2004. It found investors who bailed it out and it kept going.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_Brands#Bankruptcy_.282004.29

Hostess went into bankruptcy again. It found additional investors who bailed it out and it kept going.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_Brands#Bankruptcy_and_liquidation_.282012.29

Hostess was running out of money. Management set up a deal that would cut costs by paying workers less. This was not what the workers wanted, but according to management, it was essential to save the jobs.

One thing that riled up the workers: management got paid a lot. In an effort to make the workers happier, the top four guys at Hostess had their salaries lowered to $1 per year for 2012.

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/26/hostess-twinkies-bankrupt/

But the major costs at Hostess had to do with worker salaries, particularly with respect to delivery of Hostess products. Union rules required Hostess snack foods and Wonder bread foods to be delivered on different trucks, which had to be loaded by different people. A "Hostess" worker couldn't load a "Wonder" truck, a "Wonder" driver couldn't drive a "Hostess" truck, and the company couldn't contract out delivery. So, if a small town in a distant location wanted to buy Hostess cakes and Wonder bread, two trucks would have to drive out there, not one. Also, there is some complicated stuff I don't really understand about Hostess paying pensions to a whole bunch of workers, many of whom had never worked for Hostess.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/111912-633985-unions-dont-always-benefit-workers.htm?p=full

http://ohioansforworkplacefreedom.com/how-unions-killed-twinkies-and-wonderbread/

Now, pay attention, because here's the key part: the Teamsters Union had been fighting with Hostess management, and they had seen the accounting numbers, and they believed that (at least on this issue) management was not lying. If Hostess didn't cut labor costs, it was doomed.

I am not an expert on unions, but my impression is that the Teamsters Union is not exactly a shill for management.

It wasn't Teamsters Union workers who went on strike: it was workers of a smaller union called the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM). The Teamsters Union publicly told BCTGM not to strike. Check out this page from the Teamsters Union web site:

http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-bakery-workers-should-hold-secret-ballot-vote-hostess

The story gets even crazier. Management publicly told BCTGM that if the strike wasn't over by a specific date, they would shut down Hostess. BCTGM continued to strike. Management shut down the company. Then... a judge ordered both sides into an extra round of negotiations, and I thought to myself, "Here is where BCTGM can back down yet save face. They were unwavering in the face of a threat, they can proudly tell their members that they didn't back down until they were forced to, but they can still save all the jobs." But it was not to be. BCTGM continued to strike and Hostess shut down.

Spinning drives didn't replace tape,

Oh so this is what google's data center looks like and not this. My mistake.

It looks like time for more facts to fight suppression of speech with more speech.

Carol Browner Goes, Draconian Policies Stay

Carol Browner, former EPA director now serving as a senior Obama adviser for energy and climate change, a formerly nonexistent position created to avoid Senate confirmation to a real position,...

As we have pointed out, Browner once belonged to an explicitly socialist organization, a group called the Commission for a Sustainable World Society that is a formal part of the Socialist International. She worked in the administration alongside "green jobs" czar Van Jones, an avowed Marxist who believed in the government's pushing environmental justice and strangling the private sector.

Browner thinks the government should have absolute authority and control over our use of and search for energy, down to controlling our thermostats. In a March 9, 2009, interview with U.S. News & World Report, she said that with the smart grid, "Eventually, we can get to a system when an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air-conditioner won't operate at its peak." Or the government?

As columnist Michelle Malkin points out, Browner was also caught by a congressional subcommittee during her EPA stint using taxpayer funds to create and send out illegal lobbying material to more than 100 grass-roots environmental lobbying organizations. Her agenda was clear, and she had no qualms about using tax dollars to push it ...more

It looks like time for more facts to fight suppression of speech with more speech.

Carol Browner Goes, Draconian Policies Stay

Carol Browner, former EPA director now serving as a senior Obama adviser for energy and climate change, a formerly nonexistent position created to avoid Senate confirmation to a real position,...

As we have pointed out, Browner once belonged to an explicitly socialist organization, a group called the Commission for a Sustainable World Society that is a formal part of the Socialist International. She worked in the administration alongside "green jobs" czar Van Jones, an avowed Marxist who believed in the government's pushing environmental justice and strangling the private sector.

Browner thinks the government should have absolute authority and control over our use of and search for energy, down to controlling our thermostats. In a March 9, 2009, interview with U.S. News & World Report, she said that with the smart grid, "Eventually, we can get to a system when an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air-conditioner won't operate at its peak." Or the government?

As columnist Michelle Malkin points out, Browner was also caught by a congressional subcommittee during her EPA stint using taxpayer funds to create and send out illegal lobbying material to more than 100 grass-roots environmental lobbying organizations. Her agenda was clear, and she had no qualms about using tax dollars to push it ...more

You know, until that happened, you'd just be a tin-foil hat wearer, without a shred of credibility to you. Actually, you still are. But thanks to the colossal mistake of a couple of people in the IRS and Obama's total and complete inability to deal with a scandal, that singular act has managed to make the tinfoil hat crowd look more credible than the government.

Well, you know what, okay. Out of the thousands of times Obama and the "rabid liberals" have gotten it right, after six years of constant, sustained, unending attempts by the Republicans to find something, anything, to sink Obama even if it means repeatedly punching themselves in the face (Comeon guys, with all the major issues out there, your party platform for the previous four years has been trying to ensure Obama didn't get re-elected. Petty much?)... I suppose yes, with that much scrutiny eventually something had to pan out.

So take this one, singular victory. Have it, it's yours. You can feel righteous for a bit now -- you have a right to be upset

Well, that's mighty white of you. You are indeed a generous spirit.

True Scandal - A tea-party group ... gets attention from the IRS—and the FBI, OSHA, and the ATF.
The IRS Fiasco Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg
A Frequent Visitor to the White House

...Douglas Shulman, Commissioner from 2008 to 2012, during the Obama administration, visited the White House 118 times just in 2010 and 2011. His successor, Steven Miller, also visited “numerous” times.

Lawmakers say IRS targeted dozens more conservative groups than initially believed

The IRS targeting of conservative groups is far broader than first reported, with nearly 500 organizations singled out for additional scrutiny, according to two lawmakers briefed by the agency

IRS Admits Targeting “Tea Party” Groups
The New Nixon This time, the press cheered as the IRS investigated the president's opponents.
Tea party groups call IRS process 'nightmare'
IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo
Curious IRS Timing - Did the tax agency also target groups that support Israel?
Obamacare + IRS = gangster government
7 Questions That The IRS Inappropriately Asked Of Tea Party Groups
The IRS’s Tea-Party Targeting - An apology, but no explanation
Did The IRS Try To Swing Election To Obama?

Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert

Silly, paranoid people! Why, it's like they believe they live in a country where:

• The IRS routinely conducts spite audits of the President's enemies.
• Or sicks the FBI, ATF and OSHA on them as well.
• Where the DOJ can seize the phone records of reporters without a warrant.
• Or where the DOJ illegally seizing the health records of 10 million Americans.
• Or where the government gave weapons to Mexican drug lords in order to make the case for gun control.
• Or where a leading Democrat publically stated she wanted to confiscated the guns of all Americans.

Silly, paranoid gun owners!

Thank God we live in America rather than that paranoid, nightmarish, Orwellian police state!

Melissa Harris-Perry ... professor at Tulane, has endorsed the concept of human ownership by the state ... saying in a promo for MSNBC that "we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities." http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/040913-651296-msnbc-host-says-children-belong-to-k

All activities that people, on their own, join and participate in is part of the free-market. Yes, that means food co-ops where everyone hates capitalism are part and parcel of the free-market.

This country was built by me and people like me, who did everything ourselves, without any help from the government.

While sure, there are people who believe we can do completely without a government, that isn't a common view. I doubt you could argue as successfully against the more mundane conservative viewpoint that government should do some things, but far less than it currently does.

So we need to get Obama out of the White House, because he isn't doing enough to fix the economy and help out the business community

Given that he is actively harming the economy and the business community, I think that's a softball argument to refute. For example, the labor unions have been trying for a while to get out from under Obamacare. The tax penalty on "cadillac plans" (higher benefit plans) hurts them unusually much because plush health insurance and care are key benefits for many labor unions.

For the past few years, many unions have stayed out of trouble by acquiring waivers from Obamacare provisions (which incidentally Obama has granted heavily in favor of labor unions), but that's not going to last, especially when a Republican administration comes in. They're going to hold labor unions to the law, you can bet on that.

Then there's the Obama administration war on the fossil fuels industry. There's been way too many hostile moves such as blocking off shore drilling, claiming that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and passing yet more regulation on that basis, blocking the Keystone pipeline, and dumping massive, unproductive subsidies on unviable "renewable" energy technologies.

Or how about the punishments for employing people or making too much money? For example, Obamacare once again rears its ugly head and adds a significant cost to employing the 50th full time person in your business. Suddenly, you have to either pay for the mandated level of healthcare benefits or pay a large fine per employee ($2k per employee minus 30 employees). That's a cost of at least $40k in costs from that 50th employee.

And the increased taxes on the 1% is going to hit the producers harder than the parasites who can simply just requisition more taxpayer funding or raise the price of their government protected goods and services. Guess which part of the 1% Obama and his entire cabinet fall in? They aren't producing anything, but trouble.

And there's the general uncertainty that one gets from a corrupt, incompetent administration with a huge chip on its collective shoulders.