Sunday, November 14, 2010

Nothing in the works

Michael Graham

Mass. losing more jobs after election

by Michael Graham
Monday, Nov. 15, 2010


You’ll be happy to know that your government is hard at work spending your money. It’s the taxpayers who are left unemployed.

In 2008, Gov. Deval Patrick promised that he could create hundreds of thousands of biotech jobs in Massachusetts if we’d just give him $1 billion of our money for projects supported by his pals (and political donors) in biotech and Big Pharma. The Democrat-dominated Legislature gave him his wish and now Beacon Hill is throwing around $100 million to “create jobs.”

And how’s that workin’ out for ya? Here’s the headline from Tuesday’s Boston Herald:

“Biotech aid falls flat.”

“The state’s $6 million handout to biotech giants Genzyme Corp. and Biogen Idec didn’t prevent those firms from issuing 270 pink slips in the Bay State last week - raising doubts about Gov. Deval Patrick’s ambitious plan to create 250,000 life sciences jobs in 10 years,” Jessica Van Sack reported. She added, in a moment of profound understatement, that Patrick’s promise of a quarter-million new jobs “now seems even more far-fetched.”

Yeah, well “fetch” this: In the week since Patrick was re-elected, we’ve already lost more than 1,000 private-sector jobs, and more cuts at companies like Raytheon are on the way. Interestingly, the Associated Press reports that Patrick was asked about the upcoming cuts at Raytheon in the last days of the campaign, and rumors that he’d asked them to hold off until after Election Day.

“Patrick bristled when asked if he requested Raytheon delay any terminations, saying the company was adding jobs,” the AP reports.

Whatever really happened - and Raytheon’s smart enough to know the value of sucking up to government in a Democratic duchy like Massachusetts - it’s too late. Patrick’s back, the jobs are gone and voters stuck themselves with the tab.

It was embarrassing enough reading reports about “stimulus” jobs that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to “create.” But thanks to our government geniuses, we’re spending money to lose jobs. Instead of generating “green jobs” we’re passing out pink slips.

The Obama administration is a big fan of a California “green jobs” company called Solyndra, for example. So the O-bots gave this politically-connected company $535 million, but instead of adding thousands of net jobs, Solyndra’s actually cutting its payroll by around 150 people. That’s $3.6 million per job lost.

Anyone remember the good ol’ days before Patrick and Barack Obama, when companies laid off their own employees for free?

Meanwhile back in Boston, Mayor Tom Menino dumped $10.5 million of local tax dollars into the W Hotel and Residences project, inspiring yet another headline from Tuesday’s Herald:

“W woes could cost Hub $10M.”

“The city of Boston could be out $10.5 million if the Prudential Insurance Co. of America wins bankruptcy court approval to foreclose on the new W Hotel & Residences,” the Herald reported. That’s more tax money wasted and more jobs lost.

Ah, but there’s one part of the economy that’s growing. This headline from yesterday’s USA Today says it all:

“More federal workers’ pay tops $150,000.”

The number of federal workers earning $150K has doubled under Obama. His new plan? To give them an across-the-board raise.

I’ve got one more headline for you to ponder:

“Mass. Dems sweep state elections.”

Until that headline changes, nothing else will.


FESTIVE MOMENT: In June 2008, Gov....
It was in June of '08 when Gov. Patrick signed a $1 billion
bill to biotech giants and promised it would create hundreds
of thousands of biotech jobs. Instead the company
announced to cut 270 jobs just last week.


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Monday, November 8, 2010

Massachusetts, the land of misfit toys

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Republicans cleaned House, but not in Massachusetts


by Donnie Boston
EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Nov. 8, 2010


I told you so.

Republicans last week cleaned House across the country and changed the balance of power in Congress in historic fashion. But people here voted differently, of course. By no means I expected this state to turn Republican, but with a little luck I was hoping for some key seats to at least change hands.

Now that you, the Beautiful People have spoken, here is a brief look on some of the key issues you will face over the next four years.

Sales Tax on Alcohol: You voted 'yes,' which means you don't want to pay an extra 6.25 percent on alcohol. Though, here's a perfect example on how your elected officials go against the will of the voters right after you re-elect them. They enjoy overriding anything you repeal on the ballot. In the past, you always enjoyed getting hosed anyways.

Sales Tax and Use Tax: You voted 'no' which means you like paying a 25 percent higher tax on anything the government can get their hands on. It doesn't even matter if it's candy, sugar or the works. And it's death to the person who informs you that your taxes got significantly raised across the board last time you chose not to repeal it.

Gov. Deval Patrick: You chose to give Patrick another four years in office, which means you agree with him that your state is on the mend and on the move. It doesn't matter that your state lost 24,000 jobs over the past two months and unemployment has nearly doubled under his watch. You even put aside that your governor has the worst record than any governor who has ever served your state. You are satisfied with this.

Also, you enjoy picking up all the tabs for illegal aliens who continue to arrive in your state illegally under Patrick. And you simply have no problem with these lawbreakers using up all your resources that you are fully paying for.

Under Patrick, you don't even mind that the unemployed keep getting rewarded, like being able to cash in on HD TV's, smokes, booze and the works by using their EBT debit cards. It's really no big deal that your tax dollars provides such luxury for these individuals and that your governor refuses to act on resolving the issue.

Barney Frank: You are pleased that Barney, Chairman of the Housing Finance Committee, supported housing policies that wrecked the national economy. You gave him another term in office even though he caused people to lose their homes and fortunes by lying to them on how their stocks would do good moving forward.

Martha Coakley: You gave Martha another term in office as your attorney general, which means you appreciate the good job she is doing. Never mind that she doesn't understand what illegal means as your attorney general. You even agreed with her when she said during her campaign that it's not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts. And you also don't mind that she should never investigate any one of her party members who breaks the law, because she depends on their vote when her seat is up for re-election.

Enough of this already. You get the picture that your state, again are going to be filled with these types for another term, thanks to you. I mean, can you imagine another four years of this same old corrupt and irresponsible government?

And speaking of such, haven't you heard? Right after all the “hacks” up on Beacon Hill got re-elected, they got brand new computers and billed them to the taxpayers. And if I were a betting guy, I bet the old ones got launched right into the dumpster rather than into the hands of the FBI.

As far as our state goes, I believe more people that do the right thing by working for a living and paying their taxes and bills on time, will continue to finish last under Patrick, forcing them to flee to another state where they can get better values at cheaper rates. They will continue to be replaced here by low income people, if that, which will continue to cause less tax revenues for the state, creating more deficits like the one you will be facing this coming Fiscal Year--worth $2 billion.

And you can continue to blame the misfits we have for voters in this state who are in need of one thing:

B R A I N S!



In the above photo, Congressman Barney Frank wasted
no time in lashing out against his tormentors during
his victory speech at the Crown Royal Hotel on Election night.



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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Boot with steal toe is best for this election

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Time nears to boot out incumbents

by Donnie Boston
Election Exclusive!
Monday, Nov. 1, 2010


Tomorrow is Election Day, and loons like Deval Patrick will be running for re-election nationwide.

While many voters will vote such Cancer out of office across the country, Massachusetts voters hopefully will do the same at least to some extent. I mean, can anyone name one good thing Deval Patrick has done for you and this state ever since he got elected?

What was that again, governor? Our state is on the mend and on the move? Try telling this to the 24,000 people who lost jobs over the last two months – 21,000 alone in the month of September, which is the biggest one-month job loss in 20 years. Oh, and it's no big deal that 100,000 jobs were lost under your watch either.


I know you want to keep sticking to that figure right up to the very last minute on how the jobless rate recently went from 8.8 percent to 8.4. How about 4.6 percent unemployment when you first came into office? And what about all those people whose unemployment benefits ran out that are not being counted? So much for that so called 8.4 number.

Also, too bad you had to be forced by The Herald to release those numbers on illegal immigration. It's something that you didn't want to hear just before the election. This is why it took you a month to hand them over, or else...

The figures only prevailed that the taxpayers spent $37.5 million in emergency health care last year for illegal aliens. What a shame that Patrick chose to abolish Mitt Romney's mandate of having these individuals arrested on the spot. He wants to keep using the excuse that it's the feds responsibility to act. Blah... Blah... Blah... I mean would it really hurt Patrick to act, knowing that illegals overall cost taxpayers and this state billions of dollars every year? So much for the taxpayers facing a $2 billion deficit this upcoming Fiscal Year. It's just another example of Deval being so far out of touch with taxpayers ever since he became governor.

I can just see it all over again if Patrick gets re-elected and after the mindless voters turn down repealing the sales tax again. You remember what Mumbles did, right? As soon as this loon got re-elected, two weeks later he hosed his own voters by raising the property tax 6 percent. Ditto with Patrick. If he gets re-elected, soon enough I bet your sales tax will be raised to 7 percent. Hey, the Beautiful People had their second chance in the voting booths on how they enjoy paying higher taxes so much. “Thank you sir may I please have another.”

You see, it all comes down to the mindless voters we have in this state. The same old Beautiful people will be out in full force tomorrow to vote in their own torture once again. They are the same individuals who believe in only two things: that John Kerry got hosed in Ohio, and George Bush and Dick Chaney were the ones that brought down the Twin Towers. Moonbats at-large!

Take for instance this one example of a voter in which I was lucky enough to run in to. She asked me to withhold her name, of course, after I asked her one simple question if she will vote for Barney Frank in her district. “We are Democrats and Barney always meant well to everyone. I will vote for him.” this voter says.

I mean what the hell. It's no big deal that Barney wrecked the economy. Remember we are moving forward, and that's a good thing. It was so good that people woke up one day and found out that they lost their fortunes. Stocks only dropped 90 percent under good old Barney, and it was the biggest drop in federal history. Sure, Barney always meant well to everyone. For heaven's sake, vote Bielat for U.S. Congress!

Here's another voter on AG Martha Coakley: “She will get my vote because she is good at what she does,” this voter says. Martha is so good that she even knows that it is not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts. Don't be as dumb as Martha. Vote McKenna for AG!

Oh, the list of these types goes on.

But I have faith. I've always said that if the “straw” (Tim Cahill) finishes below 10 percent that Baker could have a chance of pulling it off. Right now he is fighting to get eight. And how bad does it get for Patrick when he isn't even considered a shoe-in with the straw and this Stein woman still in the race? Remember, a vote for them is a vote taken away from Baker.

Here's one thing I know: Come early Wednesday morning, many of these Patrick-like incumbents from across the country will have one thing in common:


Sore behinds!


MORTGAGE MESS: A book about...

Gov. Patrick is shown above telling an audience
how the state is on the mend and on the move
right after a horrific new jobless report made headlines.


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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

12 days 'til doomsday - and counting

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Era for Democrats likely coming to an end

by Donnie Boston
Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010

I can just see it now.

You wake up the next morning after Election Day and find out that many of the states across the country have turned red. This is after Republicans gained control of the House and maybe even the Senate. The only exception would be Massachusetts. The same old Beautiful People who simply enjoy paying higher taxes to their same old corrupt and irresponsible government.

Remember in 2008 when you were brainwashed with them TV ads on what devastation it would cause to your state and wallets if you repealed the sales tax? What did it get you after you chose not to repeal it? Two years later you're paying significantly higher taxes with a jobless rate of 8.6 percent. And it looks like you still haven't learned your lesson because the latest poll indicates it failing again.

But other than Massachusetts being the bluest state of them all, other states across the country will likely change color. The smarter people simply don't want to hear that it is Bush's fault anymore. Democrats have been fully in control of Congress for nearly four years, and with the current administration's failed policies, is a good reason why the American people will vote for change.

In fact, one-quarter of Americans who supported Obama say they will vote for Republican candidates this time around. It's just another poll that don't exist except the ones they want to make exist. Just ask Andy Hiller of Channel 7. Last week he talked about an unreliable Suffolk University Poll that showed Gov. Patrick being up by seven points, though failed to mention Baker's counter-poll that came out the same day showing him up by seven. So I facebooked him on it last week, but he has yet to give me an answer.

As far as doomsday goes, wasn't it back in the Spring I told you that Obamacare would likely doom Democrats, especially when an overwhelmingly majority of Americans opposed having the government take control of their health care? It's just one example of what Obama and his misfits have been doing to your lives since day one. It's called government intervention.

Then what about Obama's very unpopular stance of having Muslims build a mosque on the site of 9/11 where American families lost their loved ones due to Muslim extremist?

Illegal immigration also became a big issue with the president by no surprise. While Gov. Brewer of Arizona feels for the safety of her people due to the drug wars and crimes committed by illegals there, Obama filed a lawsuit against his own people claiming it's unlawful for state's to act on their own to enforce immigration laws. I'm sure Auntie Zeintuni enjoys hearing such news while living free in her Southie apartment where she never contributed one cent to the system.

And what about our seniors, disabled and retirees who are also responsible for putting the current administration in office? For a second year in-a-row they had their Social Security cost-of-living increase slashed while freebies continue to be handed out to illegals from coast to coast.

How bad does it get when a president spends more money than all of the previous presidents combined, only to promise you that it would prevent the nation's jobless rate from going over 8 percent? It's something like Deval Patrick's promise of property tax relief.

There's so much more, but time and space has become an issue once again.

It's this type of treatment that was given to the American people ever since they elected this one-party rule to govern them. You see, it's just not all about you, Mr. President and the elected officials in Congress. It's about the people who put you there.

So in just 12 short days there is one statement the American people will likely make to you and Washington loud and clear:

That they effin did it!


Nancy Pelosi gives a night news conference on health care reform (Photo: AFP)
Days Numbered: In this March 2010 photo, the nation's third
most
powerful person, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her
gang, celebrate
passage of Obamacare, which will likely in
the days ahead cost many of her party
members and
eventually herself to be ousted from Congress.




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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Obama's all shook up



Policies met with suspicious minds

by Bill O'Reilly
Monday, Oct. 18, 2010

Two years ago, Barack Obama was the political equivalent of Elvis Presley - rolling into towns across America, performing before adoring crowds. Like the King, then-Sen. Obama relished the adoration and gave the crowd a great show. I saw it myself in New Hampshire.

But now everything has changed. And while he may find a welcoming audience in today’s appearance in of-so-blue Boston, President Obama is not welcome in many parts of the country.

Even some members of his own party don’t want to be seen with him.

It’s so bad that Joe Manchin, the Democratic governor of West Virginia who is now running for the U.S. Senate, actually put out a TV commercial where he takes a rifle and shoots a hole into paper explaining “cap and trade” legislation.

Obama, a deeply sensitive individual, must be asking himself what the deuce is going on. How could things change so quickly in 24 months?

Of course, the bad economy is the major reason for his fall, but that doesn’t fully explain the extent of the president’s problems.

The New York Times [NYT], a flea market of liberal activism, is chalking up Obama’s decline to the stupidity of the American people. A recent Times editorial put forth: “Insurgent Republicans don’t need details when they can play on the furious emotions of voters who have been misled into believing that positive changes like the health care law are catastrophic failures.”

Yeah, that’s it. The majority of Americans are being “misled” by some mysterious force that comes in the night, planting anti-health care thoughts in their brains.

In case the Times hasn’t noticed, the American media remain solidly liberal and continue to give Obama the benefit of many, many doubts.

If you don’t believe me, just compare the coverage of Hurricane Katrina to that of the BP oil spill. Both were handled poorly by the feds. But the media hysteria over Katrina dwarfed any coverage of the greatest environmental disaster America has ever experienced. President George W. Bush was vilified beyond belief for Katrina. Obama was mildly criticized for BP.

The Times did get one thing right, though: Many voters are furious. That’s because their health care premiums have gone through the roof and they feel insecure in the workplace. My own health insurance premium went up by $2,100 this year. Why? Because the insurance company is gouging customers to stockpile cash in order to pay the increased cost of Obamacare. Did the Democrats mention that would happen? I do not believe they did.

Thus, the perception right now is that the unintended consequences of Obama’s big spending, big government agenda are not good. That is not a misleading indicator; it is the truth. That’s how most Americans genuinely feel.

It should be noted that Elvis had a fallow period, too - after the Beatles stormed America and changed pop culture. But the E-man made a big comeback based upon his talent and charisma.

No doubt Obama believes that comeback formula will work for him, as well. I’m not counting him out in the long run, but for now, he is living in the Heartbreak Hotel.


Then-Senator Barack Obama, left, is...
During a Saturday visit in Boston to boost his friend,
Gov. Patrick, President Obama told his supporters how we
are all headed in the right direction.


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