The Racist Charge: The Last Refuge of the Liberal Scoundrel
Aug 24th, 2010 by Tennessee Walker
Anyone who goes over to the Delaware Moonbat website for anything other than laughs is typically wasting their time. I read their socialist diatribes with little interest as the liberal play book has not changed in 30 years.
One of the constants of the liberal strategy is what to do when the liberals are losing the debate, (This happens every time facts are involved ) The Liberal Constants are to engage in the time honored liberal strategy of accusing their opponent of being a racist. As the Journolist scandal proved, Liberal journalists will accuse someone falsely of being a racist in order to shut people up who are beating them down in any debate.
Now liberals don’t need facts, they are prepared to level a charge without any proof whatsoever. We do need to pay attention to the strategy as the racist label is typically hurled at someone the liberals fear.
This brings us to the case of Colin Bonini and the ridiculous charge perpetuated by the liberal Idiots that his slogan is racist.
Does anyone know the Bonini slogan???
I’l give everyone a few moments to think this thru………….
Tick…..Tick…..Tick…..
The Racist Bonini Slogan is…….drumroll:
IT’S YOUR MONEY!!!!
Yes, folks the idea that one doesn’t want to see money wasted on bloated bureaucracies makes you a racist.
I know some of you don’t believe this but this bit of stupidity is true.
So here is the post of trust fund baby Jason in all of its arrogant and pompous idiocy.
Now for those who don’t quite get it that “It’s your Money” is a racist slogan. Jason is more than willing to help you out. Jason adds another whole sentence that evidently only he in his pompous and arrogant brilliance can see. So the Prince of Trust Funds says that here is the real slogan.
“ It is YOUR money – don’t let THEM spend YOUR money on unworthy black and brown people. ”
Now we all know that Jason has never heard Bonini or anyone else utter the back end of this statement. Maybe Jason is just offering his opinion. But the fact is that no one has come close to making this statement. This of course does not stop a liberal like Jason from posting an outrageously false charge and of course trying to sell the idea that Colin Bonini is a racist.
We do need to pay attention to this because Bonini is gaining ground and the enthusiasm is clearly with him.
The Democrats do not want to see an articulate conservative advocating for taxpayers in a potential bully pulpit such as the Treasuers Office. So the message goes out. CALL BONINI A RACIST!!!!
After that Jason in his idiotic post tries to make the case that Americans are undertaxed.
Why is it that those who earn their trust fund dollars by doing nothing always want real working Americans to pay more in taxes??
The list of liberal trust fund babies range from Ted Kennedy to Jay Rockefeller to Jason and they want YOUR MONEY to satisfy their guilt over a life of never working for a living.
When will the Kennedy’s, Rockefellers, and Jason actually put their own trust funds where their mouth is and help really poor people from their own trust fund pockets????
I trust this will happen about the time Liberal stop leveling false charges of racism.
You know how it goes . . . a democrat is a socialist, a liberal is a Marxist, a liberal is a Nazis (Urquhart), liberals hate our soldiers next thing ya’ know people are calling each other racist. It’s all good fun. The President is a communist. The U.S. Government is a regime. We are living under tyranny. Bonini is a racist. We reap what we sow. Extremism is a virtue. Moderation is a vice.
Stop the racist bastards!!
but wait!!! – there is more
Colin Bonini – the man who every year brings up the “english as the official language of Delaware ” bill??
hmmm maybe he never read title 6 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
of the Lau v Nichols 1974 SCOTUS decision which states that “language discrimination is a form of national origin discrimination”
now – next step – Puerto Rico was made a US territory by the Jones Act of 1917 – they speak Spanish as their first language…and are all citizens – so Bonini’s English only idea is a slap in the face to all Puerto Ricans living here in Delaware
Think they will vote for him??? they would be included in those “brown people” too….
This post vindicates my assertion that Bonini is a racists.
Merci!
Word to the wise. Wait thirty minutes after eating a meal before swimming, or before visiting Delaware Liberal.
I’m reading this a day after publishing a rebuttal to Kirsten Powers’ hate filled diatribe on Daily Beast about Republicans and racism. The difference here is that one occassionally gets an articulate and well thought out idea from Kirsten Powers that a conservative may have to think about for a moment before squashing it.
It is simply astonishing how one can manage to draw a connection between “It’s Your Money” and some kind of racist intent. Jason 330 tried really hard…and utterly failed. He tries to create some kind of subliminal connection between the slogan and what Jason views as its unspoken conclusion, which is too vile to be rewritten on a classy site such as this. From the dark recesses of his own mind, he then jumps to the conclusion that Colin Bonini…a big, affable, big, funny, big, devoted, big, energetic….did I mention he was big…public servant who could be doing much more profitable things with his time…is a bigot. No one…and I mean no one who has ever had the privilege of meeting Colin Bonini could ever possibly come away with that conclusion.
Secular-Socialists (I no longer use the terms “liberal” or “progressive”) are possessed of an almost genetic belief in the superiority of their own ideas. The belief is so insufferable, that even when confronted with their utter failure, its someone else’s (Bush’s) fault. And if you disagree with a secular-socialist, your motives must have a malicious or nefarious base. And the easiest and most polarizing way to accuse someone of that is to call them a bigot. If you are a secular-socialist, you don’t need proof. You don’t need facts. You only need for someone to dare disagree with the Gospel according to Marx.
Secular-Socialists, beware. The one who throws the race cared down first, is usually the bigot at the table.
All of the Puerto Ricans that I’ve met in Delaware can speak English as well as Spanish, so where does the “slap” come into play?
Let’s review what the Teapartiers DONT consider racist….
Holding all of Islam responsible for 9/11 (btw, way to whine about your Constitutional rights for almost 2 years than INSTANTLY telling a whole group of people they should give up theirs cause it makes you sad.. hypocrites)
Having police officers look at a person and decide if they should ask for proof of citizenship
Politicians who ignore signs like “Barack the Magic Negro”
A TV host who thinks that people in Harlem order food like this “HEY M F-ER! BRING ME SOME ICED TEA”
A radio host who thinks black people should “get over” the N word…. than proceeds to yell it at a black woman 11 times before telling her she shouldnt have married outside of her race.
i could go on, but im sure it would make ME the REAL RACIST.
It is a pretty neat trick the Tbags are pulling (yes, that is a slur… deal with it) Yell a bunch of racist vile filth, THEN accuse the offended of being the REAL hateful people.
I’ll make it easy for you. If you at any point have said “all _______ (insert ethnic or relegious group here) are…..” you are a racist T-bag. and i know.. I KNOW you are going to pull the “buy you are generalizing all us Tbags!!!! you are the REAL racist”
well, Tbagism is not a race. it is a choice. You CHOSE to follow the teachings of St Sarah. you CHOSE to make Glenn Beck your false profit (prophet). you CHOSE to watch a “news” organization who has, as one of it’s biggest stock holders a person who, if you saw him on the street, you would chant “NO MOSQUE NO MAS” (whatever THAT is supposed to mean) So DONT
In the farthest reaches of my mind, I cannot conceive of how the slogan, “It’s Your Money” could be considered racist.
I can’t add anything to that.
This post vindicates my assertion that Bonini is a racists.
What, is Bonini plural?
Sorry, the only thing which is “vindicated” is the fact that Trust Fund Scott is a lunatic.
a. price: Everything you list are perfectly constructed strawmen for your non-argument. I’d easily point what a dunce you are; however, since Trust Fund has recently demonstrated with his Bonini post that stupidity and lunacy know no bounds, why even bother? It won’t make the slightest difference, since you’re a regular at that hate site.
I don’t have to hold everyone’s hand. Sorry I just don’t. I’m too busy lighting cigars from $100 bills. You’ll have to figure it out on your own. Try reading the whole post for a start.
Try reading the whole post for a start.
I did. Those shrooms must’ve been awesome.
Don’t mention ‘shrooms unless you’ve got some.
Well, you were certainly on something when you wrote that post. That’s for sure.
Michael is complaining about crazy extremism, then goes right back into his conservative version of crazy extremist language. According to Michael, people who don’t think like him are . . possessed liberal secular socialist who think according to the gospel of Marx and like to call innocent people racists.
Now, Michael is very touchy sensitive how we describe others Bonini? I believe everything I read on blogs. Obama is a communist, liberals are socialists, Bonini is a bigot. If you can’t trust the blogs who can you trust?
Michael you know the rules. Guilt by association. Several conservative Republicans are racists. Therefore all conservative Republicans are racists. That’s the way it works these days. You take a few far extremes, then apply it to the entire group. Liberals, socialists, marxists, godless, anti-military all goes together.
Stop the racist Christian conservatives!!!!!!!!!!!
All the conservative Republicans I know or have ever heard of are racists. Therefore all conservative Republicans are racists.
At last someone who gets it.
At last someone who gets it.
Gets what? The same hallucinogen you were using?
perfectly construted strawman? are you saying the Dr Laura fiasco did not happen? Are you saying St Sarah didn’t defend her Freedom of speech AFTER calling for Rham Emanule to be fired after saying a much less offensive word…. in private?
Are you saying that Glenn Back has not repeatedly on multiple nights and occasions said all of Islam is responsible for 9/11?
are you saying that NEwt Gingrich…. the likely nominee for president from the GOP equated a community center to a concentration camp?
It isnt just that you defend racists…. and they ARE racsits. You cant change the definition of a word jsut because you dont like the fact you fit the mold…. It isnt just that you defend them. Some part of you is ashamed at what they are saying. So do you admonish them for saying it? NOOOOOOOO
You just ignore what they said and attack someone who points it out.
Answer this simple question. Should people give up their freedom of speech if a large enough group of Teabaggers chants at them to? Is that the America you want?
and you’d easily point out what a dunce i am if you had any shred of an argument with witch to do it. But you dont. you can call me a “liberal marxist” or “a real racist” or call every single FACT i can reference “a construction of the liberal socialist gay mulsim media” or whatever other scary adjective you Tbags are including these days.
What it boild down to is that you have nothing NOTHING accept denial of bad things conservatives have done and “what if” scenarios of what liberals “might do”
and you’d easily point out what a dunce i am if you had any shred of an argument with witch to do it.
I don’t have to point it out. You do it all by your lonesome. See above.
As I said, if you’re in bed with Scott and his lithium-needed rant, there is absolutely no POINT in rebutting your Olbermann/Matthews/Maddow/Schultz/Ratigan-induced garbage. It won’t make the slightest bit of difference. None. Nada. Zilch. You hear what you want, read what you want, and ultimately believe what you want. Regardless of a little thing called “fact.”
Keep Velda? How about “Keep Velda Out of My Wallet?”
Your wallet, cookie? Didn’t you read Trust Fund’s post? Uttering such means you’re a racist!
Paddy sez”
“All of the Puerto Ricans that I’ve met in Delaware can speak English as well as Spanish, so where does the “slap” come into play?”
maybe because they don’t like being told that their native language will not be recognized???
maybe because you never were in and ESL class full of PR’s that don’t speak English
maybe because like the Maine teabagger guide to DC you stayed away from 4th and Van Buren and the hilltop area of Wilmington
maybe because your just not worldly –
and maybe – just maybe – because you are not Hispanic and just don’t get it.
This is a great thread. TW’s certainly pulled some of the liberals out hiding.
They are the saddest, angriest, most unhappy people on the planet.
They are the saddest, angriest, most unhappy people on the planet.
Wiser words have rarely been spoken.
Cool story, you liberal tree huggers went Berkley protested the existence of the Marine Corps…. and tried to have a hate mob attack a college republican who was filming it. You also tried to convict 3 innocent white kids in North Carolina of crimes they didn’t commit by making up evidence because the accuser was black and Jesse and Al whined incessantly about it. That’s basically an inverse of something that would have happened the Jim Crow south…. and we are racist?
See I can hold everyone in a group responsible for the actions of a few idiots as well.
pat – keep thumping that bible – and pray for all of us poor mis-guided angry people
maybe God will start speaking to you too
I don’t think anyone who posted an opinion here is or has been in hiding – but what I do think is hysterical is that the News Journal called this blog out into the public eye for all to see what really goes on here – and now you are all scrambling for a diversion…..
now THAT my dear is funny
It strikes me as racially condesending to say that black and brown people don’t have a mind for money or don’t care about money. I am sure he didn’t mean it that way, but that is sure the way it came across when I read the post on DL from this link. Liberals usually condemn the loudest what they struggle with themselves. Struggling with stereotypes of the poor, uneducated, person of color is a common one, it seems. I guess they don’t care because they are all on welfare and don’t work except for tax free drug money. He may as well pull all of the silly, mean spirited stereotypes that rich liberals have of us.
Listen to all the liberal foot stomping and whining. More racial innuendos. Sexual innuendos. Complaints about English?
They have failed. They are reacting precisely as I predicted on my own website more than a year ago.
And soon they will pay.
“It’s Your Money.”
Racist?
LOL
“It strikes me as racially condesending to say that black and brown people don’t have a mind for money or don’t care about money.”
My thoughts exactly. According to the Liberals like Jason, black and brown people don’t pay taxes so “It’s your money” is racist since it is keeping black and brown people from getting money. Funny, the black and brown people I know work and pay taxes. They get the slogan of “It’s Your Money”.
Personally, I think Jason’s assumption that black and brown people are waiting around with their hands out waiting for state many is racist.
It is racist.
But if you said it, you’d be villified- its the old double-standard.
A July 20th post on racism as a catchall phrase condemning even the innocent:
http://www.delawarepolitics.net/guilt-by-naming/
The fatal flaw in Jason’s argument is that racism is implicit rather than explicit. He then claims he has the godlike ability to discern the unforgiveable sin of racism in the phrase “It’s your money.”
Voila! Bonini is then, according to Jason, automatically guilty as charged.
According to Glen Beck President Obama is racist Numero Uno in the United States. Makes Bonini look like an angel. Beck, the founder of the beloved 9/12 Patriots told his troops that “over and over and over again the President Of The United States has proven that he has a deep seated hatred of white people, that he hates white culture.”
Bonini is a Beck fan, a fan of 9/12 patriots. It’s clear to see. Conservatives are not the racists here. It’s the President who conservatives say is the racist one hating whites. Conservatives are not racist, they just call ‘em like they see ‘em. We have our very first black President. They say he hates whites and white culture.
Just change the terms in the denunciations linked below, and you have the essence of the vicious attack against Bonini:
http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/den-file2.html
Apo,
There’s a lot of “maybes” in your post attacking me and they are mostly beside the point. Who said anything about Spanish not being recognized? Since when does going to Hilltop or 4th and Van Buren make one “worldly?” Why do I have to be Hispanic to “get it?” Better yet, how do you know that I’m not? You’re making that nonsense argument that hanging out in the ghetto automatically puts you in touch with the good, true, and beautiful. BTW, if you really care about the advancement of Hispanics in America, you’d take the time to help them learn English, like I do with my co-workers. But angry screeds are so much more fun than practical solutions that actually help those you claim to speak for, aren’t they?
Obama is a racist. Check out the unemployment rates among blacks and hispanics, three times the white rate.
http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2010/01/15/growing-white-minority-unemployment-gap-expected-to-widen-even-further-in-2010/
Fay, you don’t get it. We’re not talking about what’s true. We are talking the talk of today’s politics. Tea Party talk. You just say anything that feels good. Bonini’s a racist. Castle votes with socialists. It’s okay to call anybody anything you know that. Once you start with democratic party liberals are marxists who detest the American Way hate our military, you open the floodgates of fear and loathing. You never said a word against extremist writing before, you engage in it, now you want some sensitivity as to the true meaning of the word racist? What is the meaning of the word Marxist?
All of the sudden words matter? Bonini is not really truly a racist by definition? How dare anybody say something so outrageous?
Conservatives are racists in the same general sense that liberals are socialists. We paint with a broad brush these days. Bonini is conservative so he must be racist. That’s the way “they” are. Those people. Just like Mike Castle is in league with socialist Democrats. If you want civil discourse you should have spoken out long before this.
Rick – if i where you I would not say anything
paddy – BTW, if you really care about the advancement of Hispanics in America, you’d take the time to help them learn English, like I do with my co-workers.
how do you know that’s not what I do for a living??
so be careful about casting stones
Think123,
The political doctrine you espouse is one of moral equivalence. Whatever judgment is made, it has no value as all judgments are alike. Such a position leads to moral anarchy, as no judgment can be made.
All evaluations are not alike.
It is one thing to evaluate evidence like the statements and records of an individual and come to a reasoned assessment of his/her political, religious and philosophical beliefs and to express approval or disapproval of those beliefs and the actions stemming from them.
It is quite another to accuse a person of racism without any evidence whatever.
Bonini has you all fooled. Running up and down the state preaching against goverment. Heres a guy who has never held another job. Graduated UD and was elected to the Senate. What the hell does he know about my money?
He’s proven to most of us he knows enough.
Certainly more than our governor, who’s hiding under his desk from Nancy Cook.
I love to see those idiots get all heated up with their baseless and overblown personal attacks, name calling, and diatribes in general. The more they gripe and moan, the more you know they see their target as a tremendous threat that must be eliminated by any means whatsoever. It’s beyond pathetic. I think such an effort is a compliment for the target. If we stop taking that lunatic fringe seriously, maybe they’ll shut the hell up.
And another thing: Anon, why suddenly the concern with education and experience? I guess that only matters when the subject isn’t one of you Dumbocrats. The lack of any kind of educational and professional background didn’t ever seem to bother anyone about the corrupt moron insurance commissioner, the high school drop out chronically unemployed incompetent who’s spending state money like a drunken sailor and is firmly in bed with the insurance companies, mostly for payback to cronies across the country and to line her own pockets with bribes and kickbacks. Does anyone over there at the deluded Delaware Liberal have any problem with that? Noooooo, they’re all “unsupported allegations”. Call the high school and the colleges she’s supposed to have attended. They’ll tell you over the phone. Attendance is public information.
Fay, extremists are all alike. Left or Right. No rules. No civility. Zero tolerance for opposition. No respect for language. I see it on these extremist blogs all the time. A radical Christian candidate like Urguhart labels the opposition “Nazis”. He says the President is a tyrant, imposing a tyranny. Now all of the sudden “racist” needs to be proved?
When did these new standards for decency go into effect?
If health care reform means “death panels” – then why not have Bonini’s slogan be “racist”. It’s called dumbing down. Haven’t you been reading the Tea Party signs. Extreme insult is the latest fad.
All of the GOP candidates have deemed 9/12 Patriots a bonafide conservative organization – even though the founder of 9/12 Patriots publicly claims the President of the United States is a Marxist who hates white people and white culture. That’s what you have been cheering on, so it’s a little late for you to start worry about “moral anarchy”. That train left the station the day our first black president was elected
Think actually does raise some good points. There are so many Conservative morons out there making the movement look bad. Honestly if we did nothing but say we would stop spending money we don’t have this election cycle would be even more of a landslide. Instead we’ve got people calling Obama a Muslim, saying he was born in Africa, and on and on instead of focusing on the fact that his spending habits are that of a 15 year old girl.
A radical Christian candidate like Urguhart labels the opposition “Nazis”. …so it’s a little late for you to start worry about “moral anarchy”. That train left the station the day our first black president was elected…
The train ‘left the station’ long before Obama was elected- as I recall, the left called Bush a Nazi, and even made a movie about his assassination.
A radical Christian candidate like Urguhart labels the opposition “Nazis”. …so it’s a little late for you to start worry about “moral anarchy”. That train left the station the day our first black president was elected…
yup – and now he wants to microchip people?? – and he wants my vote??…..that’s a hard sell after taking that stance
He’s an idiot that worships his own ego- and that comment is from personal experience
He’s an idiot that worships his own ego- and that comment is from personal experience…..Apo Whatever
So you’re saying you’re an idiot that worshops his own ego?
GeorgeC
More than likely Obama is a Muslim and was born in
Africa. Being a Muslim does not preclude him from being president but being born is Moombasa Kenya on the African East Coast, certainly does.
Just because people bring up legitimate issues that should be addressed doesn’t make them lunatic right wing fringers.
And yes, he does have the spending habits of a 15 year-old girl.
First of all, Obama could be born anywhere in the world and still be President, because his mother was a citizen.
Are you proposing that children born overseas to US citizens aren’t natural born citizens.
What’s the opposite of an “anchor baby?” A helium baby?
Secondly, you are a kook.
Dream on Alpha
Obama was born in Kenya to an American Mother and a non-citizen Kenyan father who was in the United States on a student visa.
According to statements by his paternal grandmother, Obama lived in Kenya for two months before his parents brought him to the US.
The laws are clear on this. If these facts can be proven, he is not eligible to be president or commander in chief of the armed forces.
Let’s see we have over 50 comments and not one liberal has defended the claim that the term “It’s Your Money” Is racist. Instead we get the usual smear attempts by liberals aimed at everything but what this post was about. This proves my point that when you are winning the debate the Liberals have to hurl the Racist Charge.
Of course the guy who levels the charge and wants other people to pay more income taxes Has his income protected by a Trust Fund.
This is how the elitist entitled liberals do this.
TW
When liberals don’t have facts to back up their hatred, they easily use the term racist to halt conservative facts. It is the only way they feel they can halt our fact checking.
Calling conservatives racists is safe for them. They feel that if they can keep us in fear, they’ve won the day.
It simply won’t work any more.
According to statements by his paternal grandmother, Obama lived in Kenya for two months before his parents brought him to the US.
No, she didn’t, kook.
She said the opposite.
*sigh* … stuck in the 2-link moderation tarpit again…
According to statements by his paternal grandmother, Obama lived in Kenya for two months before his parents brought him to the US.
No, she didn’t, kook.
(youtube.com/watch?v=CY6bPYKLjNw)
She said the opposite.
(obamaconspiracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/obamatranscriptlulu109.pdf)
Alpha
Kinda sounds like they changed their story when they realized the consequences of what they had said. They seemed to have had their own conspiracy.
Wind: You know what is good enough for me as proof that Obama was born in Hawaii? The local newspapers carried his birth in their respective sections. Now, why would they report on this birth … if it did not happen??
Let’s see we have over 50 comments and not one liberal has defended the claim that the term “It’s Your Money” Is racist. Instead we get the usual smear attempts by liberals aimed at everything but what this post was about.
Indeed. As I wrote in my own post about Trust Fund’s Bonini smear, “Really. I mean, c’mon — why not just invent crap out of thin air if you’re going to post insane garbage like this?”
http://colossus.mu.nu/archives/304909.php
“It’s your money” is a phrase that every wingnut can complete in their own way.
Go on, try it yourselves:
“It’s my money, so…”
““It’s your money” is a phrase that every wingnut can complete in their own way.
Go on, try it yourselves:
“It’s my money, so…”
The slogan, “It’s Your money” is complete. There is no need to complete it. It is a sentence, a complete thought, and not a phrase that needs to be completed. Only liberals, who need to use anything to smear Candidates who are kicking liberal butt, trot out the canard that there is something extra to this slogan.
The slogan, “It’s Your money” is complete. There is no need to complete it. It is a sentence, a complete thought, and not a phrase that needs to be completed.
Now, “Keep Velda” on the other hand “Keep Velda . . .”
The slogan, “It’s Your money” is complete. There is no need to complete it.
I guess you’re right. It’s kind of like: “Pay your fair share.”
I love it when Tennessee gets all upset about “smears”. Now that is reaaaalllly funny.
It’s my money, so . . . I’m looking for a free lunch, free schools, free fire, free police, free highways, free water and sewer, free airports, free clean air, free postage, free prisons, free courts, free car inspections, free Homeland Security, free wars . . .wheee . . . and don’t go letting the Government get involved in my Medicare.
Hube, sure 50 comments nobody really defends why it’s okay to say that Bonini slogan is racist. It’s obviously indefensible. You’re right. People invent stuff. It’s the same no holds barred kind of stupidity as writing the President is a Marxist. You just say crap to demonize whoever it is you don’t like. No rules. No scruples. Just extremism. Trouble is, only time anybody complains is when that insanity is directed at somebody they like. Either speak out about extremist slander libel on all sides, or don’t whine when the slime hits you.
Alpha
Could you pay my fair share, since your sooooo giving and generous.
Alpha
Could you pay my fair share, since your sooooo giving and generous.
If you are a down on your luck American citizen, I will gladly lend my support to a safety net for you.
Because after all… it’s my money.
“If you are a down on your luck American citizen, I will gladly lend my support to a safety net for you.
Because after all… it’s my money.”
Your so called government “safety net” is paid by others. Now a truly generous person would take money from their own pocket and give it DIRECTLY to those in need. Liberals insist on taxing everyone else and then try to take credit for their generosity.
Of course Liberals, such as Hillary Clinton always try to avoid paying taxes by for instance claiming as deductions used underwear.
Anyone wanting to avoid paying taxes only needs to look at how the hypocrite liberals file their IRS returns.
I am new to Delaware so I can’t say for sure. But if it is anything like California, Michigan, NY, NJ, etc, then being concerned about MY money doesn’t have anything to do with schools, parks, roads, police, airports, or any of the other mom and apple pie institutions the left tries to con the public with.
In those states, it has to do with irresponsibly wasting taxpayer money on the public employee unions. Any reason Delaware is any different?
Nope. Delaware is not like California. If anything, its worse.
If you’ve ever heard Senator Bonini give his “Delaware’s Bad Habit” lecture, he will often open his presentation with this trivia question.
“What is the largest employer in the State of Delaware?”
DuPont? Nope. MBNA? No. Bank of America? Uh-uh…
The answer is…drumroll, please….
“The State Of Delaware….”
When Mike Castle left the governor’s office, this state employed about 16,000 people. Ten years ago, this state employed some 27,000 people. Today it employs 31,026. That’s nearly twice as many as under Castle, but the state’s population has only increased by about 36% during that time.
Of those 31,026 people, some serve in the state legislature and vote on their own paychecks. Guess how many of them belong to a public employee union?
State Sen. Nancy Cook, who chairs the Joint Finance Committee, the elite group of legislators from both houses who write the budget fought and rolled Gov. Jack Markell over Markell’s desire to close the Dept. Of Finance.
It’s no small coincidence that the Department of Finance is run by Thomas J. Cook….the Senator’s son. Though specific individual salaries are not cited in the budget, the office of the Secretary is budgeted for 17 people and $1,859,800 in salaries. That’s an average of $109,400 per person.
Now, in California, legislators are term limited. Not here. Senator Cook has been pulling this kind of stunt since arriving in the Senate in 1974. Before that, her husband held the seat for twenty years. And before that, her father held the seat. That seat has been in the Cook family since the Great Depression.
She has been JFC chair since 1982. And she, like her party is owned and operated by public employee unions. Given the choice between replenishing the state’s bankrupt unemployment insurance fund, or giving state workers a seven percent raise, Cook and crew gave them a raise. Delaware is borrowing money from the federal government to pay Tier I unemployment benefits, so far nearly one billion dollars worth.
If Delaware had stayed on the projected budget of Governor Michael Castle (soon to be Senator) when he left office in 1992, our budget today would be $2.1 billion. Instead, its just over $3.3 billion, or fully 57% above where it should be. While inflation has been increasing at a rate of about 2.3% per year over the past decade and our population is close to the same, government spending is increasing at well over 6% per year. This year, with our unemployment fund broke, state spending increased by 7%.
I know my budget isn’t increasing 7% per year.
Is Delaware better than California? No, in many ways BH, its worse. In California, bad legislators eventually leave office. In Delaware, they never do. Because the state was competently run during the ’80′s and early 90′s, we were a model for how a state should be run. Today we’re a basket case. And only because we managed so well during the DuPont-Castle years, we’re not where California, New York, New Jersey and Illinois are just yet.
But we’re not far behind.
Your so called government “safety net” is paid by others. Now a truly generous person blah blah blah…..
I am starting to warm up to this “It’s your money” slogan. Here, let me try one:
“I want public health care now. Because after all – it’s my money.”
I know it’s my money, because Colin Bonini told me so.
I love it!
TW
I get the idea that Alpha is blowing a lot of hot air. He probably doesn’t have deep enough pocket to buy me a dollar hamburger at McDonald’s. Not that I would eat that garbage.
I just like to have fun with him, he’ll probably get an ulcer from all the good natured humor.
Mike
You’ve listed many great reasons to elect Dave Lawson to the 15th District Senate Seat. We need to get rid of corrupt dynasties like the Cook Dynasty. Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
Thanks for the response Michael. Not surprising at all. I’m sure the politicians don’t quote any of those figures when they want to raise taxes.
Alpha – I totally agree you should get the type of health care you want with your money. Most Republicans would agree. Obama-Pelosi-Reid certainly don’t.
Alpha – I totally agree you should get the type of health care you want with your money. Most Republicans would agree.
The magical thing is, according to Bonini, even after it has been taxed and deposited in the public treasury… it’s still my money! Right?
So public money is my money. It’s also your money.
I guess it’s “our” money.
If only there were some sort of forum where we could vote on the best way to spend that money…. Any ideas?
BH says – “I totally agree you should get the type of health care you want with your money. Most Republicans would agree. Obama-Pelosi-Reid certainly don’t.”
Sounds like somebody has not read the bill. There will be more choice where and what you can buy not less. The new state exchanges will finally let small business and individuals have the same kind of choices members of congress have.
Right now individuals have to pay 3x what a member of a big group pays because even a million “individuals” do not make a group under current insurance company rules.
The new health care reform exchanges now means all these single “individuals” will be able to shop as a group. Private insurance companies can compete in the exchange. It’s a good thing. More choice for individuals.
This is the first step in breaking the “golden chain” that favors huge corporations by making it very very expense to go our on you own and start a business. The way it’s rigged now, quit your job at a megacorporation and your health insurance premium quadruples. Good thing they don’t do that with food. We would all be slaves.
In the fight for individual freedom for basic liberty make sure you know what side to be on.
WJ…Amen to that on Dave Lawson. Hope he keeps up the great work…
Go get’em Dave! Both barrells loaded!
The health care exchange is one of the few things that Republicans and Democrats have agreed on during the debate.
The problem is not the exchange, but the myraid new taxes and regulations intended to destroy exisiting health care providers.
For example, if my health care provider does anything to my rates, copays or deductibles, it will lose its grandfathered status and be unable to participate in the exchange “as is”. Therefore my company loses control of my health care and I lose control of my health care.
Since Obamacare does nothing to control costs, because it does nothing to control junk lawsuits, if prices can’t rise, insurers will quickly go out of business. Remember that despite the rants of the lefties about health insurers gorged on money, most health care companies operate on a margin of about two to six percent.
Once the insurers are gone, the government will have no choice but to step in with a public option.
That’s where all of this is going. And its not an unintended consequence either.
Michael, I would wait to see how this all works out. It’s not written in stone. Everybody is looking to enhance the plusses watch out for the minuses. It’s an overstatement to say the reform is aimed at destroying existing health insurance providers. The existing health insurance companies need a good kick in the ass. They sell something we need to buy, so therefore they make us an offer we can’t refuse. For us to get in their face about this near monopoly set up is not a bad thing.
A lot of people felt that way in the 1982 when the government forced a very complex breakup of the AT&T monopoly. The howls cries were similar to today. It’s too complex, it punishes success, kills profit, a government takeover of a phone company. But enforcing anti-trust laws worked out to be the best thing for everybody. We did not “destroy” AT&T, but we (the People) certainly cut them a new one. Reduced there value by 70% and spawned a new expanded free market.
The main thing driving so many hate this health reform so much is not intellectual reasoning but rather ideology. Instead of looking at it piece by piece, keeping young family members on family policies until 26, no preexisting denials, no cut offs when you are sick, the exchanges – instead of reasoning, there’s a tendency to think that since Obama is a closet Marxist and Pelosi is a socialist, then the health reform must be a shot against freedom and capitalism and profit.
They say if big government didn’t step in to break up the AT&T monopoly we would all be using the same brand of phone now. Sometimes free markets need a good kick in the ass. And health insurance companies are long overdue.
Socialism is theft.
Socialism is oligarchy.
Socialist human condition; an ant colony.