Poll: Majority Say Government Is The Problem, Taxes Too High

By William Teach April 9, 2015 – 8:55 am

Progressives think that Government, particularly the Central Government, is the answer, as well as increasing taxation (of course, they typically mean increase taxes on That Guy, not themselves). The majority of Americans say otherwise

(Fox News) A record number of American voters think they pay too much in taxes. In addition, they think government is more often the source of America’s troubles — not the means of fixing them.

The latest Fox News poll shows by a 67-18 percent margin, voters agree that the assessment by Ronald Reagan of the nation’s woes in 1981 applies today as well: That government is not the solution to our problems — government is the problem.

The portion seeing government “as the problem” is up 14 points from 53 percent in 2008.

Government could be used for good. Unfortunately, it is incompetent, irresponsible with the People’s money, and too concerned with their own power. And covering their own butts. And responding to certain constituencies/interest groups over others. Etc.

Even 51 percent of Democrats describe the government as the problem. Larger majorities of independents (70 percent) and Republicans (83 percent) agree.

The question is phrased “Which of the following comes closer to your view?” with the two main answers being

  • Government is usually the solution to the problem
  • Government is usually the problem

along with “mixed/depends” and “don’t know”.

Overall, 63 percent say their tax bill is too high. That’s up from the previous high of 54 percent in both 2012 and 2005.

Thirty-four percent think their taxes are “about right,” while just 2 percent say they pay too little.

It gets more fun

Those most likely to say their taxes are too high include: those part of the Tea Party movement (75 percent), self-identified “very” conservatives (73 percent) and Northeasterners (72 percent).

Thirty-seven percent of Democrats think the taxes they pay are “about right,” down from 51 percent who said the same in 2012.

So, those in the Northeast, who tend to be Democrat voters, think taxes are too high, to go with just 37% thinking that taxes are “about right”. Huh. Of course, this does still go to the notion amongst Democrats that Someone Else should be forced to pay, never themselves.

There’s actually quite a bit more in this poll, including on Obamacare, where we find that people think the country is

  • better off under Ocare – 33%
  • worse off – 42%
  • no difference – 22%

and

  • more expensive for family – 77%
  • less expensive – 22%
  • no change – 11%

I thought the longer we had it the more we’d love it?

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Climate Change To Totally Devastate Spider Population

By William Teach April 8, 2015 – 2:42 pm

As someone who used to be arachnophobic, and is still slightly, I’m really not seeing the downside

(Inquisitr) A new study indicates that the overall temperature increases worldwide caused by global warming will have a devastating effect on spider populations – effects that scientists never saw coming.

A recent study published in The Journal of Experimental Biology says that increased temps will have an effect on spiders the same way they would have on robotics. The study says that most robotics rely on hydraulic pumps to move their limbs or ‘parts.’ Thos pumps in robotics, are, in fact, not that different from how spiders move their own limbs, where, in the place of muscles, they have joints that inflate with something called haemolymph to straighten.

Apparently, when it gets warmer spiders get faster but more clumsy. Strangely, spiders seem to do better in warmer climates than cooler ones (hence the reason we haven’t yet seen any photos of the Arctic Hissing Spider), and they’ve survived multiple warm periods throughout the Holocene. Oh, hey, and the American Mountain Goat is in danger, too

The American mountain goat has been called the greatest mountaineer the peaks ever have known, but now that high altitudes are warming – at a rate two to three times faster than the rest of the planet – the animals’ future is less than certain.

I wonder how they survived warm periods which were much warmer in the past.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 8, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a field that would be perfect for solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Capitalism Is Freedom, with a post on the most hated companies 2015.

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Man With Gargantuan Carbon Footprint Says Climate Change Is Personal To Him

By William Teach April 8, 2015 – 10:37 am

For health reasons or something

(ABC News) President Obama says that climate change became a personal issue for him when his older daughter Malia, now 16, was rushed to the emergency room with an asthma attack when she was just a toddler.

“Well you know Malia had asthma when she was 4 and because we had good health insurance, we were able to knock it out early….” the president told ABC News’ chief health and medical editor, Dr. Richard Besser, in a one-on-one interview yesterday. “And if we can make sure that our responses to the environment are reducing those incidents, that’s something that I think every parent would wish for…”

Besser, who met with the president yesterday at Howard University’s Health Sciences Simulation Lab, asked the president why people should care about the impact of climate change on public health when there are so many other pressing health problems.

“Keep in mind that climate change is just one more example of how the environment will cause health problems, and I think most people understand that,” the president responded.

For a man who supposedly cares so much, he sure has a big carbon footprint, wouldn’t you say? What measures is he taking within his own life, both professional and personal, to reduce his won carbon footprint?

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Maps Show What Americans Think Of Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach April 8, 2015 – 7:27 am

Sadly, the Cult of Climastrology keeps collapsing

(Bloomberg) Researchers at Yale have unveiled a new interactive map that estimates public opinion on global warming right down to the county level.

As a nation, 63 percent of Americans believe that the globe is warming. (Note: It is.) But that single statistic reveals little about what people in different states, local communities, and congressional districts think. The research, which was published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, makes estimates for those geographies and asks…..

The article provides seven maps. Here are the first two, the most relevant

The world has most definitely warmed. I, and most Skeptics, agree. But, this question makes no differentiation as to causation. The next one does

After 25+ years of spreading awareness, after all the hysteria, doomsaying, hysterics, scary stories, etc, despite owning the majority of the media which compliantly pushes the Warmist doctrine, despite all the private and taxpayer money dumped into pushing “climate change”, the best they can do is 48% for “mostly human activities”. Bummer.

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Judge Denies Restart On Obama Amnesty

By William Teach April 8, 2015 – 7:11 am

The judge even uses Obama’s own words against Obama (via The Lonely Conservative)

(Washington Times) President Obama’s new deportation amnesty will remain halted, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday night in an order that also delivered a judicial spanking to the president’s lawyers for misleading the court.

Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who first halted the amnesty in February, just two days before it was to take effect, said he’s even more convinced of his decision now, particularly after Mr. Obama earlier this year said he intends for his policies to supersede federal laws.

Judge Hanen pointed to Mr. Obama’s comments at a February town hall when the president warned immigration agents to adhere to his policies or else face “consequences.”

“In summary, the chief executive has ordered that the laws requiring removal of illegal immigrants that conflict with the 2014 DHS directive are not to be enforced, and that anyone who attempts to do so will be punished,” Judge Hanen wrote.

“This is not merely ineffective enforcement. This is total non-enforcement,” the judge continued, saying that Mr. Obama’s own descriptions of how he is carrying out his policies have hurt his case.

Unsurprisingly, the judge also pointed out that Obama’s DOJ lawyers lied in court

On Tuesday the judge not only refused to reconsider, but also said the administration misled him when it said no part of the amnesty had been implemented, and the lawyers bungled their attempt to try to repair the damage by filing an “advisory” with the judge early last month.

Since November, the administration had been granting a three-year amnesty to illegal immigrant Dreamers under the new policy. That’s a year longer than the two-year program Mr. Obama announced for the Dreamers in 2012.

Judge Hanen may also impose sanctions on the lawyers for misleading him. It’s nice to see that the rule of law actually means something.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Climastrology House Launches Health Initiative

By William Teach April 7, 2015 – 2:22 pm

At least Obama isn’t taking a long fossil fueled flight for the announcement

President Obama is launching an initiative Tuesday aimed at highlight the connections between climate change and public health, bringing both medical and data experts to the White House this week.

No need to go any further. This is yet another in a long line of Scary Stories told in order to cow the Leftist sheeple, most of who are too brain dead to question the reality of man induced Hotcoldwetdry.

Humorously, the most read WP story is headlined More scientists doubt salt is as bad for you as government says. Hmm.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 7, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an area being desertified by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Public Secrets, with a post on out of control college costs.

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Great Pause Hits 18 Years 4 Months

By William Teach April 7, 2015 – 9:27 am

Cue the Cult Of Climastrology excuses and avoidance. And something about the Navy. Here’s Christopher Monckton

Since December 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This month’s RSS temperature – so far unaffected by the most persistent el Niño conditions of the present rather attenuated cycle – shows a new record length for the ever-Greater Pause: 18 years 4 months – and counting.

This result rather surprises me. I’d expected even a weak el Niño to have more effect that this, but it is always possible that the temperature increase that usually accompanies an el Niño will come through after a lag of four or five months. On the other hand, Roy Spencer, at his always-to-the-point blog (drroyspencer.com), says: “We are probably past the point of reaching a new peak temperature anomaly from the current El Niño, suggesting it was rather weak.” I shall defer to the expert, with pleasure. For if la Niña conditions begin to cool the oceans in time, there could be quite some lengthening of the Pause just in time for the Paris world-government summit in December.

Cue the screeching from Warmists about “cherry picking”, despite simply starting from today and working backwards. This in no way disproves that warming has occurred, nor that the Earth is currently deep within a typical Holocene warm period. The importance here is that it blows the notion that the warming is mostly/solely caused by Mankind. Hit the link to see the comparisons between the computer model projects and the reality. Interestingly, Warmists will Blame nature for the failure of the models, but will only blame Mankind for any warming.

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Is Boycotting States The Next Big Thing For The Cult Of Climastrology?

By William Teach April 7, 2015 – 7:12 am

Actually, I hope so. Keep the loons to their own states rather than coming to mine

(Daily Caller) Climate change activists are taking a cue from the controversy surrounding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and proposing a strategy that should include punishing states that block cap-and-trade type legislation.

A Think Progress, a blog for the liberal Center for American Progress, says the “The next great moral imperative is the fight to preserve a livable climate for our children and future generations,” adding they must “match the state-level success the LGBT community and its allies recently showed in changing a discriminatory Indiana law.”

Excitable Soros Funded Climate Monkey Joe Romm is the one who’s pushing this, starting off with (switching to the Climate Progress link)

The next great moral imperative is the fight to preserve a livable climate for our children and future generations. For progressives to win this fight — and the fate of literally billions of people hangs in the balance — we will have to match the state-level success the LGBT community and its allies recently showed in changing a discriminatory Indiana law.

One has to wonder about the morality of Warmists refusing to live the carbon nuetral lifestyle they espouse that Everyone Else be forced to live by Government rule.

The LGBT community did not win by asking by asking for “tolerance.” They weren’t trying to get folks to “accept gay marriage by holding their moral noses.” No: “the lesson that the gay revolution holds for any progressive movement” is that “they set out to change change people’s minds about what is moral.”

The LGBT community forced people to accept gay marriage by law. They bullied, badgered, and sued, often over the votes of The People. This is the message of the CoC. Naked, aggressive force over the will of the People.

Those who seek to block action to preserve a livable climate have chosen the battlefield. And that means it is fast approaching the time when all those who say they care about the climate, their children’s health and well-being, and future generations will have to stand up for their values state by state.

The CoC can’t win through spreading awareness. They can’t win through debate. They can’t win on their “science”. They have mostly lost in the court room. One has to wonder if this will turn into a more militant type campaign. Joe Romm doesn’t write things like that in a vacuum, not at George Soros funded Think Progress.

We can also see the continued evolution of the “morality” push regarding “climate change”. Of course, how moral can it be when Warmists tend to be big Climahypocrites?

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