Student’s Day Of Action and the TEA Party Movement-Different But Similar

College students all over California took to the streets today to protest budget cuts in scenes reminiscent of the anti-war protests of the sixties. Students shut down intersections, freeways and buildings and were countered by riot police armed with pepper spray, night sticks and hand cuffs. The students are protesting fee increases caused by budget cuts that are forcing many out of school as they can not afford their education at the higher rates.

Millions of Americans also took to the streets in the TEA Party movement over the last year or so and maybe there is a connection.

There is a difference. The TEA Party protestors are saying they are Taxed Enough Already. The students on the other hand want taxpayers to subsidize more of their education. One wants a bigger share of the tax money collected from others while those others are saying enough already.

But there is also a similarity. They are both symptoms of bad government, and bad government has sent millions of Americans into the streets protesting. These are the same Americans that rarely pay more than a passing interest in government as they go about their daily lives. A sleeping giant has awakened, it does not like what it sees and if things do not change it will reach critical mass.

SHAME on you California State Legislature. Year after year you overspend with no common sense of priorities. Instead of balancing the budget you borrow to cover the shortfall. Now California is nearly bankrupt and our once proud public education system is not so proud anymore.

And the Federal Government is following California right down the tidy bowl as President Obama and Congress try to force national health care down our throats when they haven’t yet dealt with Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security or the worst unemployment since the great depression. Spending in the first year of the Obama Administration has already eclipsed the entire 8 years of the Bush Administration but it isn’t working.

There are four priorities California in particular should be focusing on. 1. Public Safety, 2. Infrastructure, 3. Education, 4. Caring for the truly helpless amongst us. Despite the many tempting good causes the State, under direction from well meaning but often misguided lawmakers takes on, there has to be a limit.

We  would recognize good government if we had it. It would focus on the four priorities. Budgets would be balanced, there would be no long term debt and there would be a rainy day contingency fund for difficult times such as these. Taxes would be lower empowering growth and job creation. Businesses, especially small ones would not be crippled by staggering regulations, taxes and fees. Our schools would be among the best in the country as they used to be turning out the best and brightest to help tackle our problems.

Yes a sleeping giant is awakening. What form will its anger take? Lets hope the politicians get the message at the ballot box. Join me in the next election and vote against every incumbent in either party. It is time to send these self serving moneyhaulics packing. Let’s throw the bums out!

Here’s some video from NEWSY.COM about the student protests:

Larry Naritelli, A Tea Party Conservative Choice For Governor of California

“I will always stand by the Constitution, especially the rights granted to us in the Bill of Rights.”

Ever heard of Larry Naritelli? Me neither until today. I had no idea there was a grass roots conservative candidate for Governor of California.

Here is an excerpt from his bio.

Larry is a 53 year old resident of Carlsbad, CA.  In 1979 after graduating from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management, Larry moved to California.  He lived and worked in Los Angeles and Orange County until 1983 when he moved to the San Diego area….

….Although he is a lifelong Republican, Larry became disenfranchised from the party in 2008 as it moved away from the conservative values of Ronald Reagan.  In 2009 he joined the Tea Party movement as an American patriot to join others who believe in small limited government, low taxes, and free market capitalism.  As he participated in Tea Party events it became apparent that there are millions of other Californians who believe in the same principles and values.  Throughout the year he actively fought to stop the water restrictions on our farmers and the CARB regulations that are driving jobs and businesses out of state.

Who else is running for Governor? The reinvented as a conservative Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, the rich enough to buy it for herself EBAY Executive Meg Whitman, or the tired old rerun Jerry Brown? I am sure they all have some redeeming qualities and maybe even positions on policy I agree with.

But I am tired of the same old politicians running our State. I am giving Larry Naritelli a long look, and a hundred bucks. Maybe someone with a TEA PARTY attitude can win for a change, and if not, I can still vote for one of the others.

Link to Larry Naritelli’s website.

Photo: Democrats To Use Reconciliation To Pass HealthCare, Political Suicide?

Calling Dr. Kevorkian to the ER!

Obama’s Latest Healthcare Bill Designed To Sneak Through

Democratic officials said the president’s proposal was being written so that it could be attached to a budget bill as a way of averting a Republican filibuster in the Senate. The procedure, known as budget reconciliation, would let Democrats advance the bill with a simple majority rather than a 60-vote supermajority.

There is a reason that the longer this health care debate has dragged on, more and more Americans have become solidly against Obamacare: the plan has been exposed as a welfare state takeover of our health care sector that can only be passed by the most partisan and venal tactics. If the President was capable of listening to the American people, and learning from August, November, and Massachusetts, then he would abandon the legislative disasters still pending in the House and Senate and start over. That is what the American people want.

Read the rest at the Heritage Foundation

Pass this bill and we will vote you out. Incumbents beware! Remember Massachusetts?

Did You Know US Manned Space Program Ends With Shuttle Retirement?

By the end of this year, there will be no shuttle, no U.S. manned space program, no way for us to get into space. We’re not talking about Mars or the moon here. We’re talking about low-Earth orbit, which the U.S. has dominated for nearly half a century and from which it is now retiring with nary a whimper.

Our absence from low-Earth orbit was meant to last a few years, the interval between the retirement of the fatally fragile space shuttle and its replacement with the Constellation program (Ares booster, Orion capsule, Altair lunar lander) to take astronauts more cheaply and safely back to space.

But the Obama 2011 budget kills Constellation. Instead, we shall have nothing. For the first time since John Glenn flew in 1962, the U.S. will have no access of its own for humans into space — and no prospect of getting there in the foreseeable future. (Charles Krauthammer)

Read the Rest Here.