Publicly funded mass transit wastes money. Gov. Jerry Brown of California wants a high speed rail connection northern California and with the Southern part even though there isn’t a great demand, will cost insane amounts of money and the state is broke. This is what statists do to look like they are doing their job. Wasting the public funds. Privatized rail is the only way to go.

More here at Reason.

No, eurocrats and statists are.

The fact is this president is damaging our economy on purpose. Damaging our liberties on purpose. Doing serious harm and his administration is easily the most blatantly corrupt since Harding. This is going to be an ugly year, watch and learn. Obama is beatable but we have to wonder what criminal acts will be performed by these people to stay in power. That are very blatant about what they’re doing and no one is seriously challenging them on it.

Today my Mom told me about a guy she knows who made 60 cupcakes for his kid’s school only to learn that they were sent back because Mrs. Obama isn’t allowing sweets from home to come into the classrooms. Parents are no longer able to put cookies in their child’s lunchbox, they will be taken away. I don’t know if this is a local school policy from the guidelines given by the first nightmare or not, but iof this is going on across the country i suspect there will be a lot of angry voters in November not happy with the president. Let’s hope.

So let’s look at the facts as Joe Curl has provided them.

The unemployment rate when Mr. Obama was elected was 6.8 percent; today it is 8.5 percent — at least that’s the official number. In reality, the Financial Times writes, “if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.”

In addition, there are now fewer payroll jobs in America than there were in 2000 — 12 years ago — and now, 40 percent of those jobs are considered “low paying,” up 10 percent from when President Reagan took office. The number of self-employed has dropped 2 million to 14.5 million in just six years.

Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it’s $3.39 — that’s a 102 percent increase in just three years. (By the way, if you’re keeping score at home, gas was $1.40 a gallon when George W. Bush took office in 2001, $1.68 when he left office — a 20 percent increase.)

Electricity bills have also skyrocketed, with households now paying a record $1,420 annually on average, up some $300.

Some 48 percent of all Americans — 146.4 million — are considered by the Census Bureau either as “low-income” or living in poverty, up 4 million from when Mr. Obama took office; 57 percent of all children in America now live in such homes.

Since December 2008, a month before Mr. Obama took office, food-stamp use has increased 46 percent. Total spending has more than doubled in just four years to a record high of $75 billion. In 2011, more than 46 million people — about one in seven Americans — got food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when Mr. Obama took office.

Median household income has dropped nearly 7 percent in the last six years, taking inflation into account. What’s more, nearly 20 percent of males age 25 to 34 now live with their parents.

Low- and middle-income Americans 65 and older now hold more than $10,000 in credit card debt, up 26 percent since 2005. The average age of the American car is 10 years; in 1990, it was 6.5 years old (by the way, in 1985, Americans bought 11 million cars; in 2009, less than half that, 5.4 million).

On the macro side, America’s annual budget has jumped to $3.8 trillion — and yet the United States brings in only about $2.1 trillion in revenue. The U.S. trade deficit for 2011 was $558 billion. America’s total public debt stands at $15.23 trillion; in January 2009, the debt was $10.62 trillion. Mr. Obama is on pace to borrow $6.2 trillion in just one term — more debt than was amassed by all presidents from Washington through Bill Clinton combined. The debt is rising by $4.2 billion every day — $175 million per hour, nearly $3 million per minute.

Remember that part about electricity bills skyrocketing? That was no accident. Here’s Obama promising that is what his policies will achieve if he got elected. He believes that coal plants are evil. They provide 60 percent of the power to the US and he’s forcing many of them to close. And others are being made to make unnecessary changes that are costing billions of dollars.

Mind you, he’s closing down many power plants by using the EPA illegally to do so when congress said no to his Cap and Trade bill. It’s shutting down a large chunk of this countries power plants when there aren’t any coming online to replace them. Not for years. Which will cause power shortages and a lot of other problems, just like in a third world country. Which is kind of the point apparently. That’s what he’s been turning us into. An openly corrupt police state. That’s the real state of the union.

Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.”

“We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the future, we have undermined social coherence, and we are in danger of completely losing the confidence of future generations,” said Klaus Schwab, host and founder of the annual World Economic Forum.

“Solving problems in the context of outdated and crumbling models will only dig us deeper into the hole.

“We are in an era of profound change that urgently requires new ways of thinking instead of more business-as-usual,” the 73-year-old said, adding that “capitalism in its current form, has no place in the world around us.”

Some 1,600 economic and political leaders, including 40 heads of states and governments, will be asked to come up with new ideas as they converge at eastern Switzerland’s chic ski station for the 42nd edition of the five-day World Economic Forum which opens Wednesday.

The problem isn’t capitalism at all. It’s corrupt government institutions and leaders who are using stateist bureaucracies to steal more and more money from businesses and individuals to fund their mismanaged and corrupt governments which are inherently dysfunctional.

All governments become a mess in time, the larger and richer ones get more decadent over time because the political will to keep it working properly isn’t there.

We can only hope that these so called elites do not try to foister more socialism on us, but that is exactly how they think and want things to be. Socialism fails worse and harder than capitalism ever has. But they never get that. There are still lots of people who yearn for failed socialist states of the past that were horrible and downright evil. Because people aere lazy and love the idea of some government taking care of things. The problem is that simply never works. Witness Europe, Canada and now the U.S.

Obama is all about doublespeak. His plan to reduce the size of government is a joke because he radically expanded it in his 3 years in office. So any reduction is negligible and will still be a net gain. He just said he wants to add another trillion to the debt. The man’s got to go.

Its a nice enough message but anonymous has been tilting at windmills a lot lately. A lot of the revolutions happening around the world are often but by other fascists trying to impose their totalitarian state (see Egypt), but i think the overall message here is good, Global elites need to be on notice that they are not in power like they once were and the world is changing rapidly. There are too many disturbing trends, even in the states that show a move toward more statism and not less by those in power. If anonymous actually focused on that instead of some of their odd side quests we might get somewhere.

I remember well how up in arms the lefties were in England in her time because she was tearing down the welfare state that the socialist labour party had created before her. A state that was on its way to bankruptcy, just as we are under the Obama government and decades of statism which was ramped up even but so called conservatives like Bush 41 and 43.

All government programs are paid for by tax dollars. Meaning dollars taken from you and others. And government doesnt know how to spend wisely. They have no motivation to. They are forcing you to pay them and they can force you to pay more if they want to.

Thatcher was a rare politician who was honestly exposing the problem and why it leads to economic collapse. We can see from the state of Europe now that European socialism is a failure that is falling apart at the seams and our own system is rapidly disintegrating under the weight of our unsustainable debt. Our debt is larger than the economy itself. That has to stop.

Governments are a poor answer to problems because bureaucracies largely make things worse. States like California are going broke and businesses are fleeing the regulations and tax burdens created in those places. Statism is a failure and it should always be fought and dismantled.

A little chart to show you what I mean about the current administration. This was made before he added more trillions to the debt and he’s requesting more. So a new chart would actually show no decreases.

What I’ve been saying for a long time.

The War on Terror is an excuse to go after anyone the government deems a threat in direct violation of our constitutional rights. This lawyer has been harassed by the state in a very Kafkaesque way. The Obama Administration is even worse than the last one when it comes to this.

Alex Jones may or may not be a conspiracy nut but this new law is reality and what he says is true. Obama wanted these things in the law which turns America into a police state, They can now send you to prison indefinitely without trial by merely accusing you of terrorism. Lets se how quickly this gets abused.

Every so called liberal and lefty who thinks Obama is a good guy, time to wake up now. Its not a bad dream. Its a scary reality.

The EU was an attempt to take away the freedoms of Europeans, creating a statist society, which is also what President Obama has been trying to achieve here. And the green movement, which is really a crypto-socialist movement using the environment to mask their true intentions of helping statism, have been working hand in hand using scams like global warming to ge people used to more laws, regulations, limited freedoms and more taxes. Fortunately, Obama is failing even while succeeding in many ways. Hopefully it can be reversed by the next president. As for Europe, its going to crash because statism is an inevitable failure every time its achieved. It creates horror and desolation in its wake the longer it lasts, but it never lasts forever.