Lib Quote Of The Day

Our beloved supreme leader has been trying to force people to believe in his healthcare ideas lately by using campaign-style tactics. By busing in supporters he always seems to draw a friendly crowd. Hm. Weird. The other day he was trying to address the concern that private companies will not be able to compete with a government insurance plan and dropped this gem...

"They do it all the time," he said. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

...as he's trying to convince us that the government can run things better than the private market? That sounds like a gaffe to me. But, no. He thinks it's a legitimately good argument to advance his ideas. He said it again. And AGAIN!!!! Like I said before, this man is crazy.

Lib Quote Of The Day

"He's (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."

Patty Murray (Sen, D, WA)

Lib Quote Of The Day

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-Al Gore, former Vice President

The "Do-Nothingers" Are Doing Something....Again

We conservatives are accused of being naysayers, people of inaction and status quo, extremists, and people without a plan or an idea. Simply not true. It's just that our ideas are crazy, unpopular, or unreported (hopefully more of the latter, but that is debatable). But, here is a good conservative idea on how to 1) control health care costs FOR ALL, and 2) get competition into the insurance market.

Health Care Issue

We are trying to fix the issue the right way (no pun intended), but we are being ignored. Why?

Lib Quote Of The Day

I feel I give too much voice to conservative issues. And since that kind of freedom of speech is aggravating to liberals (see Fairness Doctrine and beliefs of new FCC chief), I will now express both points of view, to prevent imprisonment for having an opinion. So, I will provide a quote of the day as often as I can, from a liberal, so they can have their voices heard (at least until the liberal menace gets her computer up and running). So, here is today's quote.

Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas Schelling:

"I sometimes wish we could have over the next five or 10 years a lot of horrid things happening, you know, like tornados in the Mid west and so forth. That would get people concerned about climate change."

POSTED BY The Conservative Conquistador, in compliance with Master Obama's rules

Meddling And Unintended Consequences

Whatever you do, don't let anyone ever hear me say this. I think the ideas that liberals have sound really nice. I agree with most of their ideas on the surface. Free healthcare for everyone. Very good idea. A growing economy that does not affect the environment. I am all for it. The list goes on and on. Liberals get painted with the "compassionate" brush and rightly so. Their ideas bring a warm and fuzzy feeling to the heart.

But, we conservatives have two fundamental disagreements with liberals. Today, I will address one of them.

1) We don't trust politicians. They are only looking out for themselves. They are not "compassionate" liberals or conservatives. They are self-serving megalomaniacs that don't deserve any power, with a few exceptions. So, while I like liberal ideas, I can never trust a liberal politician who all day everyday says give me more money, give me more power, let's get more people dependent on the government, and I will make it all better. Wrong.

2) This is the one I would like to address today. There are consequences to every action. You cannot do anything economically, politically, anythingally that does not have a consequence. It is like trying to squeeze one of those stress-relief balls. You push in on one spot, but another one pokes out. Let me know if this has ever happened to you. You have a rigid circular structure (lots of construction/home repair items are rings of metal). You get a dent in that structure so it is no longer a circle. Have you ever tried to make it a circle again? You can't. You push one side in and the other side pokes out. It will NEVER go back to it's perfect form, no matter how careful or thoughtful or dexterous you are. It is an unintended consequence.

Those exist in politics as well. When the government implements (sounds better than "force", right) policies in a country, there are consequences and unintended consequences. Let's get to the point. The cash for clunkers program. What a success!! The Obama administration and Congress are just drooling over themselves because of the success of the program. I too have mixed feelings on the program. On one hand it promotes freedom of choice, gets people buying cars, gets old unsafe cars off the road, and there are a slew of other consequences. But, when you push on one spot, another spot pokes out. Here is the article from msnbc.com.

Unintended Consequences of Cash For Clunkers

So, now is the program a success? Used car prices are skyrocketing (not going up, but skyrocketing). Used parts prices are skyrocketing. Anyone that is not driving a brand new car is going to have to pay more money to get parts or a new or used car. Is that fair to us? No. That is what happens when the government meddles with the economy.

What is the answer? I won't drub you over the head with conservative ideology, but the answer is the free market. It is the only thing that is unbiased, and the only thing that allows true freedom. In the free market we are ALL free to choose for ourselves what we want to do. When the government meddles, some of us are the beneficiaries and some of us bear the brunt of the unintended consequences.

POSTED BY The Conservative Conquistador

Hell Has Frozen Over

I read something today that shocked me beyond belief. A Salon.com writer (aka flaming liberal) that actually made sense. A logical liberal? I shudder to think.

Obamacare Debacle