DOWN SIZE THE GOVERNMENT

Federal Spending & Budget Issues

March 10, 2010
SIX REASONS TO DOWNSIZE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

There are six reasons to downsize the federal government, says Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute.

Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the economy:

* The bulk of federal spending goes toward subsidies and benefit payments, which generally do not enhance economic productivity.
* With lower productivity, average American incomes will fall.

As federal spending rises, it creates pressure to raise taxes now and in the future:

* Higher taxes reduce incentives for productive activities such as working, saving, investing and starting businesses.
* Higher taxes also increase incentives to engage in unproductive activities such as tax avoidance.

Much federal spending is wasteful and many federal programs are mismanaged:

* Cost overruns, fraud and abuse, and other bureaucratic failures are endemic in many agencies.
* It's true that failures also occur in the private sector, but they are weeded out by competition, bankruptcy and other market forces; we need to similarly weed out government failures.

Federal programs often benefit special interest groups while harming the broader interests of the general public:

* Horse-trading in Congress allows programs to be enacted even though they are only favored by minorities of legislators and voters.
* One solution is to impose a legal or constitutional cap on the overall federal budget to force politicians to make spending trade-offs.

Many federal programs cause active damage to society, in addition to the damage caused by the higher taxes needed to fund them:

* Programs usually distort markets, and they sometimes cause social and environmental damage.
* Some examples are housing subsidies that helped cause the financial crisis, welfare programs that have created dependency, and farm subsidies that have harmed the environment.

The expansion of the federal government in recent decades runs counter to the American tradition of federalism:

* Federal functions should be "few and defined" in James Madison's words, with most government activities left to the states.
* The explosion in federal aid to the states since the 1960s has strangled diversity and innovation in state governments because aid has been accompanied by a mass of one-size-fits-all regulations.

Source: Chris Edwards, "Six Reasons to Downsize the Federal Government," Cato Institute, March 3, 2010.

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IS EUROPE UNDERSTANDING ISLAM?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDLfKpcxG2E

Muslims in “Disbelief” Over Pushback
in the Netherlands

What is unbelievable is that no one is asking
why the Dutch are pushing back!

Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom won local elections in a surprise vote two weeks ago (see story below).

This comes on the heels of the Swiss referendum banning minarets on mosques, which passed with 58% of the vote.

Predictably, Muslims and politically correct government officials and commentators are reacting with disbelief and warnings of a new wave of “hate.”

Here’s the question people should be asking.

Why are so many people, in two countries noted for their tolerance, pluralism, and commitment to multiculturalism, pushing back with their votes?

Clearly, increasing numbers of Europeans have reached a point where they have lost patience with the Islamization of their countries.

Clearly, Islamic militancy, expressions of supremacy, and an unwillingness by most Muslims to assimilate have pushed more and more Europeans to the breaking point. In spite of threats and criticisms by Muslim leaders, government leaders, academics, and the media, these Europeans are making their concerns known with their votes.

For years Europeans have been tolerant. Their reward has been the exploitation of their tolerance by the intolerance of radical Islam.

There is a lesson here for America and Canada. Just last week, two men were assaulted by an Islamist at a Muslim Day event in Tallahassee, Florida. To see the short video, SEE YOUTUBE ABOVE.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hqLlrThhF76LfjhY_VArZR6ZZdrw

Dutch far-right breakthrough met with Muslim disbelief

By Mariette le Roux (AFP) – Mar 4, 2010

ALMERE, Netherlands — Muslims in a Dutch city where the party of anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders won local elections reacted with shock and anger Thursday, fearing his victory would fan animosity.

"I am afraid that it will lead to more hatred," said 20-year-old student Sakina Buyatui, a Dutch-born resident of Almere, a city of nearly 190,000 people near Amsterdam where a third of the population is of immigrant origin.

In a show of strength ahead of June general elections, Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) came first with 21.6 percent of the vote in Almere in Wednesday's poll.

"This is bad for Almere," said Buyatui, wearing an Islamic headscarf at the central station, where people of Turkish, Moroccan and Suriname descent, called "allochtonen" in Dutch, rub shoulders seamlessly with indigenous compatriots.

"It is terrible," agreed 35-year-old computer sciences student Kadriye Kacar, born in the Netherlands like her parents and grandparents, who were of Turkish descent.

"People are looking at us in a new way today as if they are thinking: 'We won and you are leaving'.

"I don't wear a headscarf normally," she added, "but I have decided to start doing so now out of protest. Other people in my community are planning to do the same; we will protest until Wilders is gone."

The far-right swing was a hot topic in Almere, where women in headscarves and long, traditional gowns huddled in small groups on the main shopping street and Wilders' name could be heard spat out in disgust.

Wilders campaigns for a ban on headscarves for public servants, a halt to immigration from Muslim countries and a moratorium on the erection of mosques in his bid to "stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands".

Henny Kreeft, leader of the Dutch Muslim Party, described Wilders' victory as "very, very sad". The party also contested Almere but got no seats.

Wilders' success "is based on a fear behind which there is no truth", Kreeft told AFP.

"Mr Wilders has been spewing a whole lot of nonsense about Islamisation and security: the more people heard it I suppose the more they thought it was true."

The PVV has nine of 150 seats in the Dutch parliament, and five of the country's 25 European parliament seats.

Some polls suggest the PVV is now the most popular party in the Netherlands, traditionally seen as a bastion of tolerance.

Wilders shock to the Dutch political system

After his party's success, Wilders told Muslims in Almere they had nothing to fear "as long as they obey the law".

"He is creating hatred, he is going too far," a woman with a headscarf told AFP, declining to identify herself.

"This could become a serious problem," added 48-year-old Muslim businessman Walli Hyrat. "It is very difficult to take the headscarf away from Muslim people."

But one 19-year-old waiter, who would not give his name "because it may create problems at work", said he voted for Wilders.

"Too much attention and resources are spent on Muslims," he said.

"I have to work here to earn money for my studies," he added. "I don't get any help because the leftist parties in government reserve all that for the poor, most of whom are Muslims."

Another Wilders supporter, a 62-year-old pensioner, said his concern was for security.

"We are afraid of walking alone in places where groups of young allochtonen hang around looking for trouble," he said. "Wilders will give us commandos to patrol the city and will ensure that repeat offenders are put out of the Netherlands."

But a 61-year-old woman who immigrated to the Netherlands from Turkey in 1976 said she feared Wilders' rise would drive a wedge between hitherto peaceful neighbours.

"Things are going to change," she said. "This is a really bad development."
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SEE THE FACES OF ISLAM

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ISRAEL - PA: WHAT A NON-JEW THINKS

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******OUR MILITARY SAYS ISRAEL HOLDS THE KEY TO PEACE******

GUESS WHAT? IF YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF WASHINGTON YOU SHOULD HAVE BELIEVED THAT SADDAM HAD THE BOMB AND THAT WASHINGTON HAS BEEN SMART IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

THE PRESIDENT AND HIS MINIONS AVER THAT THEY ARE COMMITTED TO ISRAEL'S SECURITY. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT CHOPPING UP ISRAEL, NOT ALLOWING ISRAEL TO REPAIR CERTAIN U.S. BUILT MILITARY AIRCRAFT EXCEPT IN THE U.S.A. AND PLAYING GAMES ON IRAN ARE ALL BENEFICIAL FOR ISRAEL'S AND AMERICA SECURITY YOU SURLY LIVE IN FANTASY LAND.

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT General David Howell Petraeus IS TALKING STRATEGY OR POLITICS? WHO IS HIS BOSS AND WHAT DOES HIS BOSS WANT? THIS IS MERELY AN ATTEMPT TO TURN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST THE JEWS.

IF ISRAEL IS THE PROBLEM THEN YOU MUST MEAN THAT ISRAEL IS TO BE DESTROYED BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT ARABS AND MUSLIMS WANT. THEY WILL WAGE WAR UN TIL THEY ACHIEVE THAT SUCCESS AND THEN GO ON TO KILLING SOMEBODY ELSE BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THEY HAVE EVER DONE SINCE ISHMAEL. SHOW PEACE AMONG AND BETWEEN ARABS AND I'LL SHOW YOU FANTASY LAND.

THE PRESIDENT AND HIS LACKEYS HAVE ATTACKED ISRAEL WITH UNPRECEDENTED VITUPERATION, ANGER AND GALL. THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO APPEASE THE THIRST FOR JEWISH BLOOD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. NEVER MIND THAT WITHOUT ISRAEL AMERICA IS LESS SECURE. WHERE DO YOU BELIEVE AMERICAN APPEASEMENT WOULD END? FURTHERMORE, WHAT IS THE WORD OF THE USA WORTH?

OUR PRESIDENT HAS ABANDONED HONDURAS, COLUMBIA, POLAND, THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND ISRAEL. IF YOU BELIEVE THOSE ACTIVITIES HAVE MADE US MORE SECURE AND LOVED YOU LIVE IN FANTASY LAND.

AS EACH DAY GOES BY AMERICANS ARE LESS SAFE THEN YESTERDAY. MILLIONS OF SUBVERSIVES ARE IN THE USA AND AROUND THE WORLD. INDEED, AS EACH DAY GOES BY MORE OF THEM ARE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PRESIDENT'S CZARS AND ADVISERS.

IF OUR LEADERS WOULD HAVE ANY BACKBONE WITH THE HATERS THEY WOULD TELL THEM: NO MORE HONORS FOR TERRORISTS; NO MORE ABUSE OF THEIR CHILDREN AND NO PROXIMITY TALKS. IF THE HATERS WANT PEACE THEY HAVE TO TALK DIRECTLY AND AMERICA WILL PRESIDE. HOW MANY MORE TIMES DOES ISRAEL HAVE TO GIVE UP LAND AND IMPERIL ITS SECURITY?

Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez: Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez: SHOULD THE WORLD HAVE MORE PEOPLE LIKE HIM?

Saturday, September 26, 2009

All European life died in Auschwitz

By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible
truth - Europe died in Auschwitz.

We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.

Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.

This is a translation of an article from a Spanish newspaper

The truth must be told!

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