The agenda

By now, everyone in America should understand the Obama Agenda.
It is:

1. Amass personal power and wealth for himself.
2. Weaken American militarily.
3. Strengthen government control over the individual.
4. Create an ongoing fiscal crisis via excessive spending and borrowing.

Everything he has done since taking office has furthered those goals. Voters are free to speculate on his motives. They don't really matter. It is the results that matter.
If he succeeds, America will devolve into European socialist status, if not Third World status.
If he gets a second term, he will redouble his efforts to succeed.
It should be clear to everyone why Rush Limbaugh said he hoped Obama would fail.Anyone who agrees with Ronald Reagan that America is the last, best hope of the world should agree.
We'll find out in November how many of those Americans there are.

Fiscal facts

It is fun to watch the libs go nuts over finding that the public schools had a large cash carryover, but they are dead wrong when they accuse the bureaucrats of having "hidden" funds.
It says very clearly in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report that: "The General Fund total fund balance was $164,674,911 as of June 30, 2011, and represents an increase of $30,576,299 or 22.8 percent as compared to the prior year’s balance of $134,098,612.  This increase reflects the District’s commitment to be fiscally sound by the preservation of fund balance due to the uncertainty of near-term revenue streams."
Finding that fact certainly was no great feat of investigative journalism.
I've been looking at the fiscal facts lately and reporting on them, telling folks what the newspapers never do, which is that the local schools have spent more money every year and the total spending increase has been more than 30 percent over 10 years.
Other pertinent facts about the cash carryover:

• The schools have an annual independent audit, as required by law. It did not criticize the size of the cash carryover, (also called fund balance).
• The state requires the schools to have a 3 percent fund balance for emergencies. Art classes are not emergencies.
• The superintendent and his crew knew the fed spigot was likely to turn off at some point and wanted to be ready, without beating the taxpayer to death.

The state and city governments also have a cash carryover every year. It is standard practice. Only the arcane accounting of the federal government is different. Budgets mean nothing in Washington and follow no standard accounting principles. The government simply spends what it wants to whether it has the money or not.
Greedy libs want to spend every dime they can get, federal government style, whether it is fiscally prudent or not.
School board members who complain of being duped simply were asleep at the switch.
I'm rarely on the side of the bureaucrats but in this case, the superintendent, who is getting booted, did nothing  wrong, in my humble opinion and based on the facts presented to date.

Libs can't handle the truth

Prepare yourself for more months of libs complaining about "drastic cuts" to public schools.
Gov. Rick Scott already has proposed an extra $1 billion for the schools but gets no thanks. Instead they rail against him for not giving more.
"More" is the only answer you will get if you ask a lib how much money it would take to get the schools to do what they are supposed to do.
As for cuts.
In Jacksonville, the School Board says on its own Web site that it has cut $150 million from its budget in the last four years.
The problem is that it has spent more money every year for the past 10 years.
But put that aside. If it had cut $150 million it would be from more than $4.5 billion it spent during that time.
That would be a drastic 3 percent.
Oh, the horror.
Any organization with capable accountants that couldn't take a 3 percent nick in its budget without breaking a sweat is not one you would want to invest your money in.
But the libs will continue with their dishonest claims. Facts do not faze them in the least.

Compromise and all that crap

The only group that even approaches libs in self-adulation is the "moderates."
They are far superior to those on the left or right, they tell themselves and everyone else, because they listen and choose on the basis of what is best for everyone.
Balderdash. Moderates should be called "confused."
Are you in favor of big government one day and individual freedom the next? Tax increases one day and tax relief the next?
Congratulations, you are a moderate.
One of their conceits is that Congress should "compromise" and get things done.
Let me ask a question.
If two people are in a car and one wants to go forward and the other wants to go backward, what is the compromise?
If America is going to move forward, it needs to elect conservatives and get the country back on track. Moderates who want "compromise" should vote for conservatives. They have differences but they can resolve them.
The sooner libs are defeated, the sooner we can get going.

Why we work

Straightening out the confusion libs cause in the world is a dirty job but someone has to do it.
Currently, libs are all up in arms because the Legislature is trying to save the taxpayers some money. Nothing makes libs madder.
Because so many career criminals are locked up, crime is declining and not as many prison guards are needed. So the state is planning to eliminate some, while privatizing prisons. Private prisons don't engage in featherbedding, as union-run public prisons do.
The guards believe they are entitled to jobs on the taxpayers dime whether the work is needed or not. Libs, of course, agree.
What is a job?
A job is a mutual agreement between two people, with or without a written contract.
The employee agrees to do a certain amount of work of a certain kind.
The employer agrees to provide a certain level of compensation.
This is the important element, which libs are unable, or refuse, to understand.
Neither agrees to lifetime employment.
The employer may eliminate the job if conditions change and the worker is no longer needed.
The employee also may terminate the agreement and walk off the job at anytime, whether it is because he has found a better paying job, or better working conditions, or he doesn't like his boss's looks.
Libs believe only the employer has an obligation. It doesn't matter to them that he might have accepted inefficient work while the new employee is learning the ropes, or spent money on job training, or that he is facing a production deadline and needs every hand.
Because most employers are in a competitive environment, they offer good wages and working conditions and few are forced to hire union workers in a right to work state such as Florida.
Thus, unionism, which is a basic tenet of communism, flourishes only in the public sector. It should be prohibited in the public sector because there is an inherent conflict. Employees can gang up and fire their employers.So, they are overpaid and pampered at everyone else's expense.
Libs excuse this by saying they must prevent "cronyism" in the public sector. But the system doesn't prevent it, it encourages it. Witness the Chicago mob that has taken over the federal government.
Competition is a necessary agreement in the private sector and public sector. Libs insist it is devastating to the public sector, which is patent nonsense, especially the claim that it harms education. Research has shown it helps the public schools.
One of the most sensible statements I've ever heard coming from the lips of a bureaucrat was uttered several years ago by a school superintendent in Jacksonville, on the subject of vouchers.
"If we do our job, we don't have to worry about vouchers," he said.
Exactly.

More media malfeasance

This is something liberals don't want you to know.
If they wanted you to know it, the liberal media would mention it when they write the sob stories about the suffering public schools, or the thundering editorials demanding more "investment" in education.
I don't read the local papers, but I'm pretty sure that in hundreds of stories along those lines they never once have told you the fiscal reality.
Facts are to liberals as a cross is to a vampire.
They prefer to play on your emotions, and hope you don't find any facts on your own.
They could, of course, claim that the increased spending is the reason for improved education.
That would leave them in the position of having to explain why they have been decrying "cuts," but they are a nimble bunch.
More awkward would be explaining why 30 years of increased spending produced no improvement until true education reforms were put into place.

Robbery or recovery?

Gallup says 82 percent of Americans think it’s extremely or very important to “grow and expand the economy.”
That's not what the Obamacracy is doing. They are indulging in class warfare.
According to the same poll, 46 percent say it’s important to “reduce the income and wealth gap between the rich and the poor.”
That's less than half but higher than one would expect -- unless you accept the Obama solution, which is to make the rich poor as a means of equalizing.
Conservatives prefer to make the poor rich. That's what growth does. During the golden era of Reagan, all income segments saw rising incomes. Class warfare didn't work. Why worry about what someone else is earning, if you own paycheck is growing?
The question was poorly phrased because it left open how equality would be achieved.
Another question gives us more insight. Seven out of 10 people say it’s important to “increase equality of opportunity for people to get ahead.”
So, a vast majority of Americans think equal opportunity and growth are important. If so, they are conservatives.
Socialists think big government that robs the rich to pay the poor is more important than growth and prosperity.
Where they think the money for their scheme is going to come from is anyone's guess.
Maybe they actually believe the government's assumption under "static analysis" of tax proposals, which is that a 100 percent tax rate would produce a payment of 100 percent. In other words, people gladly would work all year and turn over their entire income to the government.