Joe's & Barry's Lies
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:26 pm
VP Biden and the President have recently tried to make the case that if the Republicans refuse to implement Barry’s “jobs” bill, there will be more murders and rapes in the U.S. There is about $35 Billion in this bill that is targeted for retention and hiring of state and local government employees, including police. It is self-evident, they claim, that if this money does not go out there will be fewer police “on the street,” and the crime rate will inevitably go up. (I will not address the “problem” of the majority-Democrat Senate not passing the bill; it’s just a footnote). The WHite House yesterday confirmed that this scurillous accusation is the formal and correct position of the Administration.
It is being said on the (non)campaign trail that the Republicans are pro-murder and pro-rape, pro-robbery, arson, and so forth. And that their partisanship will lead to fiery human deaths in burning houses due to the phantom firefighters who will not be around to put out the house-fires.
Having studied law enforcement and penology, I’m a little bit skeptical about the correlation between police headcount and the crime rate. Ask any policeman and he will tell you that it is extremely rare for a police officer to stop or prevent a crime-in-progress. They come to the scene in the aftermath, after the crime has been committed.
It is true that on a nationwide scale, the apprehension and incarceration of large numbers of criminals has led to a reduction in ad hominem crime, but the “axiom” that more police equals less crime is not universally embraced, and it may simply be untrue. The public image of a protective “cop walking a neighborhood beat” is largely a myth. See the data accumulated here:
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-toughcrime.htm
More importantly, this is just another example of the President’s prevaricative, hateful, and inflammatory rhetoric, in which he attempts to portray those who honestly disagree with him as being in favor of, for example, crime, dirty air, the spread of disease, poisoning the water, global warming, poverty, starvation, homelessness, and so forth.
A moratorium on new federal environmental regulations is not, “rolling back decades of environmental laws.” Declining to expand (unconstitutional) Federal education spending is not “condemning our children to ignorance and poverty.” And so on.
And why won’t they be honest and admit that this recent initiative is not a “jobs” bill, but rather a “government and unionized employee jobs” bill. In fact, the ONLY beneficiaries would be unionized government workers and unionized construction workers who live off government contracts and their odious “prevailing wage” requirements. As for the other 85% of “workers” in the private sector, we are pretty much left to fend for ourselves. As it should be.
In fact, this Administration has demonstrated in some very emphatic ways that they are NOT supportive of JOBS, generally, but merely of government jobs and union jobs – to the detriment of non-union workers (e.g., Boeing in South Carolina). They have no sympathy whatsoever for the coal miners who will be idled by their new constraints on power plant emissions, and have done nothing at all for the majority of American auto workers who DO NOT belong to the UAW. Further, they insist on extending unemployment benefits indefinitely for those who have not worked for years, while offering essentially nothing to workers at the bottom of the scale, who often make LESS than the UEC beneficiaries, though they work full time jobs. I have personally been in this situation, and was not very pleased with Government's generosity to others, I'll have you know.
Oh, the hypocrisy of it all! They claim to fight for the Little Guy, but when push comes to shove, they bail out the bankers and brokers, and try to direct the ire of the Working Class as those who are already paying the lion’s share of FIT, as though life would be better if they only paid “their fair share.”
I can’t wait for November, when I can vote to throw these lying, phony bastards out.
It is being said on the (non)campaign trail that the Republicans are pro-murder and pro-rape, pro-robbery, arson, and so forth. And that their partisanship will lead to fiery human deaths in burning houses due to the phantom firefighters who will not be around to put out the house-fires.
Having studied law enforcement and penology, I’m a little bit skeptical about the correlation between police headcount and the crime rate. Ask any policeman and he will tell you that it is extremely rare for a police officer to stop or prevent a crime-in-progress. They come to the scene in the aftermath, after the crime has been committed.
It is true that on a nationwide scale, the apprehension and incarceration of large numbers of criminals has led to a reduction in ad hominem crime, but the “axiom” that more police equals less crime is not universally embraced, and it may simply be untrue. The public image of a protective “cop walking a neighborhood beat” is largely a myth. See the data accumulated here:
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-toughcrime.htm
More importantly, this is just another example of the President’s prevaricative, hateful, and inflammatory rhetoric, in which he attempts to portray those who honestly disagree with him as being in favor of, for example, crime, dirty air, the spread of disease, poisoning the water, global warming, poverty, starvation, homelessness, and so forth.
A moratorium on new federal environmental regulations is not, “rolling back decades of environmental laws.” Declining to expand (unconstitutional) Federal education spending is not “condemning our children to ignorance and poverty.” And so on.
And why won’t they be honest and admit that this recent initiative is not a “jobs” bill, but rather a “government and unionized employee jobs” bill. In fact, the ONLY beneficiaries would be unionized government workers and unionized construction workers who live off government contracts and their odious “prevailing wage” requirements. As for the other 85% of “workers” in the private sector, we are pretty much left to fend for ourselves. As it should be.
In fact, this Administration has demonstrated in some very emphatic ways that they are NOT supportive of JOBS, generally, but merely of government jobs and union jobs – to the detriment of non-union workers (e.g., Boeing in South Carolina). They have no sympathy whatsoever for the coal miners who will be idled by their new constraints on power plant emissions, and have done nothing at all for the majority of American auto workers who DO NOT belong to the UAW. Further, they insist on extending unemployment benefits indefinitely for those who have not worked for years, while offering essentially nothing to workers at the bottom of the scale, who often make LESS than the UEC beneficiaries, though they work full time jobs. I have personally been in this situation, and was not very pleased with Government's generosity to others, I'll have you know.
Oh, the hypocrisy of it all! They claim to fight for the Little Guy, but when push comes to shove, they bail out the bankers and brokers, and try to direct the ire of the Working Class as those who are already paying the lion’s share of FIT, as though life would be better if they only paid “their fair share.”
I can’t wait for November, when I can vote to throw these lying, phony bastards out.
