The New Media Militia

Hat in hand, governor Lynch is looking for the feds to bail him out of the accumulated disaster of his administration. On the matter of extending federal unemployment benefits (from this morning’s Union Leader) the governor was emphatic.

Failure to do so (to extend federal benefits) will jeopardize the economic progress we’ve been making, Lynch said, warning that roughly 20,000 people in the state could run out of benefits in the next four months. Next week alone, 938 people will lose their benefits, he said.

Progress?

You have so mismanaged your stewardship of the state budget, been so beholden to years of irresponsible legislative spending and grossly inaccurate revenue projections, that we are incapable of finding even a few million dollars anywhere in our own state of New Hampshire to resolve any problem without further flights of legislative fancy or begging an even more bankrupt federal government for another handout.

Read it all Here:
http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/07/they_salted_the_fields.html

Carol “98%” Shea Porter surprised several people when she offered to co-sponsor HR 1207, the Audit the Fed Resolution.  The bill, sponsored by Republican Ron Paul would require an audit of the not so independent “independent” central bank.

The hobgoblins who run the Fed were not interested in an audit for obvious reasons.  As the manipulators of monetary policy they were and are responsible for trying to manage the boom bust cycle or more appropriately (and more likely) causing it. But they were still part of the government, so for Carol to step up and make even a token gesture was unexpected. 

Or was it?

Get the full story Here
http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/07/carol_is_still_batting_980.html

Perspective

All you need to put the lefts complaints of a GOP “smear campaign” against Carol Shea-Porter’s Graduation propaganda-mailing to High School seniors or the question of how she got those addresses from local school districts can be summed up as follows.

In a recent email to supporters Katrina Swett puts a new spin on the thousand pound gorilla in the room.  The gorilla is the economy and K-Swett appears to have looked to the east for inspiration.  She also spelled the word “lose” wrong.  Figure out where yourself I have a blog to write.

The new turn of phrase, and we could be seeing this re-branding from all the debt-o-crats in the very near future because they to spin things, is to ‘rebalance the economy.’  “Rebalance the economy?”  (As in less government more freedom?)  Not exactly.  In Ms. Swett’s application she would like to rebalance the economy so that it works for us not just big corporations.  Oh, see it’s those big corporations again.

Read the entire post here:

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/07/swett_turns_a_phrase.html

At present the interest rate is more political than sensible.  It is policy driven, affected by the governments desire to do something that natural economic forces would otherwise resist.  The most recent example was the governments desire to get people into homes they could not afford, a program started by democrats, and coddled by them up until the dam broke at which point it was someone elses idea.

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Read it all Here:  http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/06/drop_dead_fed.html