Missing Californians

From our friends at The American Thinker...

The Sacramento Bee website is reporting that the number of top-income taxpayers in California has declined by a third. In an article in its Capitol Alert section, the Bee says that those Californians with $500,000 and up taxable incomes have declined from almost 150,000 in 2007 to slightly under 100,000 in 2009. The article also notes that the 100,000, representing just over a half percent of the 14.6 million returns, accounted for 18.8 percent of total income reported, but paid 32 percent of all income taxes in 2009. If Governor Jerry Brown wonders where a whole bunch of those making....

to read the rest of the Sac Bee Capitol Alert article you can find it Here.

It's just great when the Lefties running the State of California are finally unable to find a rock to crawl under.  So we'll see.... as things continue to unfold and California loses it's Golden State status of decades.

Pay freeze impacting Feds morale ~ break out the violins

A survey appears in today's FederalNewsRadio.com that should touch the hearts of the violin section of the Philadelphia Orchestra.  After reading through to the end of the article it's hard coming from the private sector of our economy to feel the pain expressed by those quoted.

"Federal employees are struggling," said Tom Fox, vice president for leadership and innovation at the Partnership for Public Service. "You enter into government service willing to make a sacrifice. It is a public service. The people we work with are exceptionally mission-driven and are not looking for a lot of praise or a lot of rewards as a result of the work they do. They're really looking to make a difference. Because of that, all the negativity associated with federal employment and public service right now is particularly disheartening. It's the type of thing folks are prepared to withstand for a certain period of time but, now that we are moving into two solid years of fed bashing, folks are tired and eager to find ways to keep their heads held up high despite some of those negative perceptions."

The only thing we nonpublic service folks feel is the burden of continuing to pay the increasing taxes and fees to support those government salaries, benefits and pensions that are far more generous than those in the private sector.  Has anyone not heard how the ranks of government employees has grown exponentially these past 3 years?

To read more of the survey Click Here.

To listen to violins Click Here.

What if someone.....

like Newt Gingrich launched.... Whites for Gingrich
or Romney.... Mormons for Mitt?

You just can't make this stuff up!

President Obama Announces the 2012 Launch of

African Americans for Obama

Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term

Yesterday, at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) in Washington, DC, NRA (National Rifle Association) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre gave a rousing heads-up speech warning what's next on Obama's agenda after Obamacare and the most recent attack on religious freedom.  He said:

"We see the president's strategy crystal clear: Get re-elected and, with no more elections to worry about, get busy dismantling and destroying our firearms' freedom, erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights and excise it from the U.S. Constitution."

Think about it.  Go back into recent history.  What's been happening these past few years?  Our Constitution, the Constitution given to us by the Founders has been under assault by the extremists of the Democratic Left from the freedom of speech, right to bear arms, religion, states rights and the list goes on.


Here's an article in today's Washington Times for the rest of the story.


And, then go to the NRA website (here) and join.  Your rights are at stake.

The Chevy VOLT ~ 'nuf said.....

Déjà Vu 1949

There are times in life when history repeats itself and this is one of them.  Not much has changed between 1949 and today.

Who are the Real America?

The American Thinker online today has a terrific piece about the Poll Masters and their art of manipulation but when it comes down to the facts it is the Conservatives who are the Real America.  This interesting short read can be found HERE.


Right On!!

The data is consistent, overwhelming, and clear.  Conservatives are the Real America.  Leftists are colonial governors, small in number, controlling through fear and intimidation from heavily guarded forts at the chokepoints of society, unable to persuade more than a slim minority of Americans to follow them, and protected from the destruction of their own administration.  Our campaign against the left is nothing more or less than a national liberation movement.  We, not they, are America.

Happy Birthday

Ronald Reagan ~ 40th President of the United States

February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004

California's Not Dreamin': This Is the Nightmare of an Obama Second Term

This came in over the transom today from a like minded friend..... it's a real eye-opener how California got to where it is today.... pretty screwed up!  It won't get better until it gets worse is the general belief amongst small business.

I live in California . If you were wondering what living in Obama's second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are living there now.

California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democratic Left enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and state government is run by and for the public employee unions. The unemployment rate is 12%.

California has more folks on food stamps than any other state and has added so many benefits and higher rates to Medicaid that we call it "Medi-Cal." Our K-12 schools have more administrators than teachers, and smaller classes but lower test scores and higher dropout rates with twice the per-student budget of 15 years ago. Good job, Brownie.

This week, the once and current Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown had to confess that the "balanced" state budget adopted five months ago was billions in the red because actual tax revenues were billions lower than the airy-fairy revenue estimates on which the balance was predicated.

After trimming legislators' perks and reducing the number of cell phones provided to state civil servants, the governor intoned that drastic budget reductions had already hollowed out state programs for the needy, law enforcement and our school children. California government needed more money.

Echoing the Occupy movement, the governor proclaimed the rich must pay their fair share. Fair share?  The top 1% of California income earners currently pays 50% of the state's income tax.

California has seven income tax brackets. The top income tax rate is 9.3%, which is slapped on the greedy rich earning at least $47,056 a year. Income of more than $1 million pays the "millionaires' and billionaires'" surcharge tax rate of 10.3%.

Brown's proposal would add 2% for income over $250,000. A million-dollar income would then be taxed at 12.3%. And that's just for the state.

Brown also proposed a one-half-cent sales tax increase, which would bring sales taxes (which vary by county) to 7.75% to 10%. Both tax increases would be on the ballot in 2012.

The sales tax increase proposal immediately brought howls of protest from the Left (of Brown!). Charlie Eaton, a sociology grad student at UC Berkeley and leader of the UC Student-Workers Union, said, "We've paid enough. It's time for millionaires to pay."

At least five other ballot measures to raise taxes are circulating for signatures to get on the 2012 ballot in California . The governor's proposals are the most conservative.

The Obama way doesn't end with taxes.

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