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Middleclass forced to walk the plank


It’s almost too preposterous to address, if not for the seriousness of the matter and by the way again, who is defending middleclass Arkansans/Americans?                    April 29, 2013

I refer to a front-page article appearing in Sunday’s edition in the Times Record by John Lyon of the Arkansas News Bureau titled “Health-Insurance Exchange (Obamacare) means jobs”!  Did any seasoned Arkansans/Americans ever think they would see the day when our once preeminent republic would be partially dependent on state/national welfare jobs and brag about it, and to what end? For example, Obamacare adding over ¼ million of additional underachieving Arkansans and illegal Mexicans to the welfare rolls?  The projected number now is over 266,000.

Remember Nancy Pelosi bloviating “we will not know what’s in Obamacare until we pass it”? Nothing has changed.   In Arkansas, Cynthia Crone, who is running the corrupt economic debacle said  “How many certified application counselors will be involved in the process is not known”. Same for “Navigators & Guides” (to be explained.)

Citizens, do you begin to understand the magnitude of this Obama theft (Obamacare) and its dependency creation? Brought to us originally by gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross and now by team leader Senator Jake Files (R), and tagalongs Senator Holland, Reps. Altes, Eubanks, Malone, McGill & others, after state Chamber of Commerce CEO Randy Zook instructed the aforementioned 6 as to what their marching orders were, i.e. enacting so-called important reforms to the Medicaid system—Obamacare,  eliminating costly taxes. Can Zook be that stupid or just another lie? Later, Zook congratulated the 6 for their votes to enact Obamacare.  Recall that Randy Zook is the grand wizard that promotes cheap labor, open borders, tort reform (legislators set awards instead of juries), and taxpayer subsidized health insurance.   Examples of corporate welfare. The above mentioned 6, with the aid of other elected, unconstitutional midgets, put the cost of Arkansas’ welfare healthcare squarely on the backs of the middleclass, while hundreds of corporations have received permission to opt out of Obamacare.

In a nutshell here are the beginnings of the Arkansas state health insurance exchanges.  There are 4 entry level categories that must be discharged before any form of implementation can begin. $$$$$$$$

1.    Navigators—will educate and assist consumers.
2.    Guides—duplication of navigators…will work with governmental & nongovernmental entities.
3.    Certified Counselors—perform same functions as first 2.
4.    Agents, Brokers—favored insurance companies get all the non-governmental business.

What is the cost of the above—oh yes, we won’t know until enacted…and that is just the tip. If ‘Arkansas Obamacare requires Navigators, Guides, Certified Counselors, Agents & Brokers just to introduce this monstrosity, any fool can quickly see Obamacare is a nation killer.

Now comes the most bombastic statement of all. Citizens can always count on State insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford, (the uber in the taxpayer trough) who stated “hiring people to help Arkansans enroll in the exchange, it is not creating a new bureaucracy”.  Say again, Commish?  Bradford continues by stating “It’s going to be privatized”.  Let’s see if I understand…the Feds ($17 TRILLION in debt) are allegedly paying Arkansas to administer the grand theft which will ultimately diminish the quality & quantity of healthcare in Arkansas for all, but they are going to let private enterprise administer it?  Sure they are. Government does not relinquish power, ever. The Fed is allegedly paying for the first 3 years, who pays after that?  Welfare numbers are not static.

We can thank the aforementioned six for their desertion of the middleclass and for betraying their campaign promises of smaller government, reduced taxation and individual initiatives. One final note, to underscore, there has been no citizen uprising demanding membership in the state exchange. State Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Hot Springs) who was against the exchange corruption stated, “My understanding is they’ll more or less go door to door and sign people up”. This of course smells precisely like former Gov. Huckabee’s Arkids First giveaway.  Use primetime taxpayer subsidized advertising to beg people to join.

Who represents the middleclass…no one.  Are these Republicans “public servants” or self-servants?

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith

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Paying for 1/4 million more on welfare will save money??


TO FEED, CLOTHE, WIPE, ENTERTAIN, & TRANSPORT IN PERPETUITY         March 6, 2013

A Second Mathematical Postulate Coming from Arkansas State Government in Two Weeks—a government program that will save money!

The first postulate you may recall came from the mouth of Rep. Greg Leding who postulated that money taken from citizens by force by the federal government and redirected to welfare recipients was defined as part of GDP.

Close on the heels of Rep. Leding’s creation comes a second postulate from Bo Ryall, president of the corporate Arkansas Hospital Association, who stated that the introduction of ¼ million more deadbeats injected into the already burgeoning 870,000 recipients of Medicaid would save Arkansas money by letting the Feds pay for this outrageous deal proposed by Gov. Beebe, the Democrats, and the corporate hospital association, but only for the first three years. It should be noted that the federal government is already $17 TRILLION in debt…pay with what?

A report said that by expanding Medicaid it could save the state $664 million between 2014-2020.  I challenge Gov. Beebe, Bo Ryall, and any other Big Government enthusiast to present any government entity that ever saved money, most particularly Medicaid.

Moving along with this new mathematical postulate, Mr. Ryall opines that with the introduction of another ¼ million welfare deadbeats (legal & illegal) injected into Arkansas society will create between 8,500 & 11,500 new jobs, i.e. government positions.  I would suggest to Mr. Ryall, Gov. Beebe, and other proponents of forced redistribution to take the mean between 8,500 & 11,500 and multiply by $75,000 (avg. government yrly salary) of the aforementioned individuals (expansion of state government paid for by taxpayers), how much of that so-called $664 million savings is left? First, the money for the new jobs is funded by taxpayers, and then they are taxed again by having to subsidize the expansion.

In addition to this faux bloviating by corporate Arkansas & the state government, here comes the copout introduced by the POI (Party of Irrelevance) to show cause why Arkansas producers should pony up more hard earned tax dollars to be dumped into the Never-Never Land—that by a “Consultant” at the rate of $55,000 per month to tell Arkansas lawmakers how to introduce more theft.  Understand that the consultant wallowed in the government trough for decades and that’s his credentials—no friend to the producing citizens, nor is the state legislature.
Do Arkansas legislators ever discuss the big conundrum?  Will the welfare throngs have their hands out in perpetuity? Do the legislators ever discuss between themselves putting an end to their destructive and criminal behavior? Or do they say let the next bunch worry about it? And finally…

Senator Joyce Elliot is playing around with the Right of Eminent Domain, and no good can come from this woman’s meddling with that Right.

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith                    arkansasfreedom.net 

New Economic Theory: Adding welfare recipients is good economics!


Representative Greg Leding (D-Fay) and his “New Economic Theories”        February 28, 2013

Ahhh, the benevolent Arkansas State Representative who hails from that Marxist enclave on the Hill.

Rep. Greg Leding is no doubt a soul-mate of the Catholic Bishop Anthony Taylor, the individual who is no respecter of the U.S. Constitution and the Rule of Law, e.g.  the purveyor of Sanctuary Cities and recipient of taxpayer dollars to fund the misnomer “Catholic Charities”.

The Honorable Greg Leding spewed his benevolent new economic equations at a press conference at the Capitol Wednesday.

To begin with Leding stated “Not only is it the right thing to do to get these ¼ million Arkansans access to healthcare, but it is also an economic driver”.  So welfare is an economic driver? Yes, it drives economics into the ground.  Rep. Leding, no disagreement that these folks in all likelihood need healthcare.  These folks do not have a RIGHT to healthcare and the method you are prescribing for attaining their healthcare is immoral, i.e. theft by force from one group for redistribution to another.  You call these potential welfare recipients numbering ¼ million “Arkansans”.  How many in these numbers are illegal Mexicans & OTM’s? As a Catholic, in all likelihood the number of illegals is of no concern to you.

You go on to say, “We’re looking at about $550 million added to our state’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)”.  Representative Leding is it your belief $550 million stolen from taxpayers and disseminated to non-producers is GDP?  I further call your attention to the fact that the U.S. government does not have $550 million when we the producers are saddled with a $17 TRILLION debt.  In this same vein your view of economics and math is the same immoral fiber that Governor Beebe wallows in, i.e. “if we don’t take the money someone else will”.

Your economic silliness reaches a new high when you are quoted as saying 6,200 new jobs will be created with the acceptance of Obama’s vote-buying thuggery. You are speaking of government positions, not jobs, while increasing the size of state government and placing more economic burdens on the producers.

Rep. Leding you go on to state, with your pretzelized arithmetic; about 2,800 lives will be saved each year. What crystal ball are you using?

Back to Gov. Mike Beebe and his bloviating, “The federal government will pay all costs for the first 3 years”.  Governor, where does the federal government get the money?

Rep. Leding, you have no constitutional or moral authority to grandstand before the state legislature and Arkansas citizens demanding more forced redistribution from the hard-pressed middleclass.  You and your Democrat soul mates are stealing money from Arkansas citizens without their authority.

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith
arkansasfreedom.net   

Attacks on Constitutional Rights Continue


Is anyone in the Arkansas legislature representing citizens’ interest?

Will some of the constitutional betrayers in the Arkansas legislature rise for a roll call?  February 19, 2013

1.    D. Altes (R—Ft Smith)……”Present”
2.    N. Bell (R—Mena)………….”Present”
3.    J. Gillam (R—Judsonia)……”Present”
4.    K. Hammer (R—Benton)….”Present”
5.    J. Rapert (R—Conway)……”Present”
6.    W. Sabin (D—Little Rock)…”Present”
7.    M. Shepherd (R—El Dorado)”Present”
8.    E. Williams (R—Cabot)………”Present”
9.    J. Woods (R—Springdale)……”Present”

Why are the above 9, and perhaps many more, being charged as betrayers?

I.     Eminent Domain.  Representatives Nate Bell, Kim Hammer, and Senator Jason Rapert are engaged in an attempt to destroy the time honored and revered The Right of Eminent Domain, which confers protection against seizure of private property.  What are the rewards that the aforementioned 3 are expecting if they are successful in their proposed treachery and who or what is the force behind their unconstitutional behavior?  In the end, what is their pay-off? The attack on the Right of Eminent Domain emits the pungent order of the “stack & pack em” U.N. Agenda 21 crowd.

II.    Tort Reform.    Republicans have long been shilling for insurance companies, the Chambers of Commerce, and corporate entities to quash the 7th Amendment.  Their attacks have been launched incrementally.  It is obvious from available data that Senator Eddie Joe Williams (R-Cabot) is the prime mover orchestrating the latest attack on our Amendment 7. Perhaps the senator is not familiar with the 7th Amendment and in all good conscience believes he has a superior legislative mind than our Founding Fathers, in this case most particularly Madison, Jay & Hamilton.   Incidentally, Rep. Mathew Shepherd is riding shotgun for Eddie Joe in the vile attack on the right to trial not to be impugned by any government agency or agencies.

Suppose Senator Williams is travelling from Little Rock to Cabot and a Tyson chicken truck or a Wal-Mart 18 wheeler crosses the median and runs over he & his vehicle and as a result of the crash, Williams loses both arms.  Question: Would the Senator be satisfied with a government predetermined evaluation of his loss or would he be more confident in the honesty and empathy of a jury of his peers who have no political connections or obligations?  Of course, we know what Eddie Joe’s answer would be.  The Founders had no intention of having the American jury system tampered with by self-serving bureaucracies and politicians who are influenced by Special Interests.  

Senator Williams obviously overlooked this phrase from the 7th Amendment “The right of trial by jury shall be preserved and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise examined”.

He was elected to serve not only his constituents but all Arkansas residents—not hospitals, not the Chambers of Commerce, not the insurance companies, not corporate entities and certainly not LOBBYISTS--the scourge of government.  Is there a payoff for carrying such unconstitutional & egregious legislation?

III.    Term Limits.   Have Representatives Altes, Bell, Gillam, Sabin & Senator Woods articulated to Arkansas citizens why they are for extending term limits? Of course not!  They will in unison state that they have not yet finished their legislative work.  What a crock.  Fort Smith’s Rep. D. Altes has termed in and out any number of times and citizens in Fort Smith would be hard-pressed to make one positive statement about his presence in the state legislature. Precisely the reason why government has evolved into self-serving political parasitism. And on the subject, the right honorable Senator Jon Woods wants to raise the pay for the legislators. Has the senator noticed the state of the Arkansas economy and the thousands of illegals slopping at the welfare trough? Couple this with the huge increases of the homeless in the Senator’s neck of the woods, i.e. NW Arkansas.   Shame on the Senator & the rest of the legislature who are pushing for raises.  Drastic cuts need to be made in legislators’ travel allowances.   More self-serving rumblings out of Fort Smith in the person of government employee Rep. Stephanie Malone, stating “she doesn’t want full term limits” (?) she just wants “partial term limits” (?).   Stephanie needs to explain.  The Founders did not intend or want career politicians.

Speaker of the House, Rep. Davy Carter has indicated he favors the extension of Term Limits.  Extending Term Limits would further enhance the ability of self-serving politicians to increase their already questionable activities by expanding the size of their taxpayer subsidized playground. On that basis we are sure Rep. Carter would allow citizens to vote on the issue.

Note: Republicans proclaim they are the party of the Constitution, small government and freedoms…observe the above. 

The new Republican majority in the Arkansas House & Senate are doing their best to out-Democrat the Democrats.  Republicans have morphed into the realm of irrelevancy; hence their new name—The Party of Irrelevance (POI) and is suffering with and from the Simpletonian Complex.

You certainly want to put your trust in this bunch.

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith
arkansasfreedom.net 

Oh yes, there is the ongoing flimflamming by Gov. Beebe re the proposed N.E. Arkansas Steel Mill.  Can you see $250 million (and counting) taxpayer dollars injected into this highly questionable endeavor? And at the same time, factoring in 20% of the operation being owned by the Arkansas Teachers’ Retirement System. (?)  Residing close to Memphis cancels out most of the theoretical benefits to Arkansas. This ain’t no flea market adventure.

Welfare Albatross Grows


From Arkansas State Government’s Lost & Found Department                 January 25, 2013

It’s Arkansas’ Easter Egg hunt in January…and how many eggs were found?  In this case the eggs are the potential newly found 87,000 legal foreign nationals who “qualify” for Arkansas welfare and are lined up to dine at the welfare free lunch table. Perhaps this should be called Christmas instead of Easter.

As every Arkansan should know, the Marxist Democrat Party with Gov. Beebe leading the charge is cocked to add 250,000 more slugs on the backs of middleclass Arkansans. Is the 87,000 newly found foreign nationals an add-on to the 250,000 number?

Apparently so, reading the comments of House Minority Leader Greg Leding who represents the Marxist city on the Hill called Fayetteville, Arkansas. Leding says “We keep finding arguments to support expansion”.   Spoken like a true Communist. According to Leding’s bio he is a Catholic. This is the group that defies U.S. law while running sanctuary programs and gaming every facet of our system, and they hoot about their charitable work, i.e. Catholic Charities, which receives 2/3rds of their funding from U.S. taxpayers!  No doubt Representative Leding is carrying the baggage for Arkansas Catholic Bishop Anthony Basil Taylor who flouts U.S. & State law on a daily basis.

More salt rubbed into the economic, legal & cultural wounds of middleclass Arkansans, compliments of Senator Uvalde Lindsay and House Minority Leader Greg Leding…both representing the Marxist bastion on the Hill. They are a heck of a pair.  Probably should throw in Rep. Madison also.

Joe McCutchen
www.arkansafreedom.com  

“Welfare? A cruel hoax.


WHERE DOES IT STOP, OR DOES IT—IN ITS WAKE ARE MOUNDS OF ECONOMIC ASHES AND HORDES OF BEGGARS—IT’S CALLED “WELFARE”                                                            January 24, 2013

Another proposed grand theft orchestrated against middleclass Arkansans, but not limited to, by Gov. Mike Beebe, a disciple of the Marxist Communist President Barack Hussein Obama, State Surgeon General Dr. Joe Thompson, Dr. Daniel W. Rahn, Chancellor of U of A for Medical Sciences, Dr. Clark Fincher, the Governor of the Arkansas Chapter of American College of Physicians; and some members of the Arkansas state legislature.

Do we feed them forever?  The aforementioned luminaries never, ever question why welfare numbers continue to exacerbate, what remedies are available which could terminate the lack of self-discipline and foster self-reliance, etc.  Instead, without any forethought, these subsidized bureaucratic and political elitists posit their position without feeling for the poor souls who are generating the funds for their entitlement feast.   In this same vein, the 30 year politicrat Beebe is proposing a 2% pay raise for state employees. It’s in your face citizens, and is a mirror image of precisely what Obama is doing to all America.  The producers are not receiving raises, as you well know, therefore why should government employees receive raises?

With the proposal to add 250,000 (that’s ¼ million) more non-producers to the welfare rolls will tally out to be at least 1,100,000 welfare recipients languishing & reproducing in our state alone. Arkansas’ population is roughly 2.5 million. Does that sound an alarm?  Citizens are not aware of how many illegals are dining at the welfare table—more corruption by Beebe and the state legislature. On bended knee, they shuffle to the music of the Walmart’s, Tyson’s, Stephen’s, the State Chamber of Commerce, etc.

Depending on whose numbers you accept there are somewhere between 2-5 million 3rd World, uneducated, poverty-ridden legal & illegal aliens entering our country on a yearly basis.  We as a nation are $16.4 TRILLION in debt, with a $75-100 Trillion in unfunded mandates, i.e. MEDICAID, Medicare, and Social Security. Notice that the Marxist Democrats gave approximately 3% increase in Social Security checks and those who have saved and had some wealth netted out less than they were receiving in 2012.  That is bald-faced thievery. The money was earned by hard labor and the DC thugs have dried up the Social Security coffers.

Not to bore, some specifics about government arithmetic and fabrication used by Dr. Joe Thompson.  Thompson asserts that with the 250,000 add-ons we would end up with 400,000 with insurance…tell us Dr. Thompson, who is we?  Thompson goes on to say that the add-ons would save 2300 lives per year…where is that crystal ball Dr. Thompson and is that the same ball that came up with the padded 250,000 number?

Next, an example of political doublespeak and outright dishonesty.  Dr. Thompson states that if the Ark. Legislature signs on to this not so Affordable Care Act, with the addition of 250,000 non-producers it will create 6200 jobs. Jobs? Jobs? These are not jobs they are positions. Dr. Thompson may be a bright individual but also devious & sinister. .  Those 6200 jobs bloviated about amount to a huge expansion of state government, no end in sight, all subsidized by the producers and he and Beebe are not producers. Government employees hold positions, not jobs, again all subsidized by middleclass, hard-working Arkansans.

What is the philosophy that states that a government may take by force from one group for redistribution to another group? Ladies & gentlemen of the legislature, it is Communism.  Your political vote-buying benevolence at someone else’s expense is not only unappreciated, it is highly resented.

It will be interesting to see how the former political party identified by the name Republican, now the majority, morphing into the Party of Irrelevance, handles the proposed abuses of middleclass taxpayers orchestrated by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe and his Democrat Legislature. Do the POI’s have the backbone to terminate the Marxist attacks on our once free society?

Joe McCutchen

arkansasfreedom.net  

WELFARE HEAVEN OR HAVEN?


ARKANSAS, THE WELFARE HEAVEN…OR IS IT HAVEN?

Governor Mike Beebe, the Arkansas Legislature & Altruism, i.e. Soft Communism.    January 16, 2013

Auguste Compte was born in France in 1798, inventor of Sociology and coiner of the word Altruism.  Altruism laid the groundwork in America for Political Correctness which has all but destroyed the 1st  & 2nd Amendments and virtually all important institutions.

Altruism is a philosophy holding selflessness as the highest virtue, which excludes rational self-interest.  Few individuals practice Altruism because of its totally destructive nature; however government uses sanctimonious Altruism routinely to buy votes and positions, i.e. all politicians & bureaucrats.  Simply put, producers provide unearned largesse to the Takers and as time goes by the demands of the Takers increase, ultimately destroying the abilities of the producers to provide for the Takers—what is left? Ashes.

Witness Government: In this case the positions of Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe & the state legislature in the matter of burgeoning & expanding welfare programs.

It is noted that the opponents of rational self-interest (individualism) have created environments which low-information citizens seize upon the “something for nothing” scheme thereby aiding & abetting our destruction. Implementation of Political Correctness has been fueled by the much bandied phrases, e.g. “make a difference”, “giving back”, “mentoring”, “volunteerism”, “compassion”, “egalitarianism” (stressing the importance of the collective over the individual) all of which paralyzes Middle Americans.  The faux philosophy has allowed the elites to launch an all-out attack, destroying individual freedoms, property rights, seizure of individual wealth, self-reliance; ultimately destroying the totality of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Rule of Law, and hands America over to the Global Cabal.

Before elaborating on the proposed Arkansas legislative destruction that is about to occur referencing Altruism (middleclass destruction), it is appropriate that remarks made by certain Arkansas leaders be topically analyzed:

1.    Governor Mike Beebe:  “Some people understandably, believe the federal government simply can’t afford to be throwing this kind of borrowed money at states” ($1 Billion per year for 250,000 new welfare takers), and Beebe said, “that money is going to be borrowed and spent regardless of whether Arkansas takes its relative pittance ($1 Billion per year is pittance?).  For us to decline the expansion (adding 250,000 more individuals to the current welfare rolls) would be to close some of our hospitals, conspicuously deny insurance to our working poor people and perpetuate an unsustainable system of uncompensated care (Beebe and his worn-out scare shtick & where is the proof?). And it would accomplish diddly in regard to the federal deficit”. (This is exactly the kind of thinking/actions which have bankrupted our republic. Incidentally, Arkansas is currently $139 Million in welfare arrears. )

a.    Does the governor have any comprehension of the true meaning of his quotes, and certainly he chose not to elaborate, only elements of fear which are absolutely ungrounded? His quotes would have you believe Arkansas is an island unto itself and amounts only to a mere pittance and not worth diddly when there are 49 other states and any number of Protectorates at the trough.
b.    What’s the genesis of the outrageous number 250,000? Let’s have a name!
c.    If 250,000 are added to the welfare rolls, how long can we expect the recipients to remain on the dole?
d.    There are no visible protests by citizens demanding to be put on welfare. The state’s urgency to accomplish this is criminal. The state practices this criminality on a daily basis by running TV ads, print media, and other forms of advertisements baiting people to join the welfare brigade.  In police parlance this practice can only be described as entrapment.
e.    No mention of the throngs of illegals gaming the systems in our state.  Defense?
f.    No enumeration or names of the hospitals allegedly forced to close, or why.
g.    Aside from his fear mongering of throwing old folks out of nursing homes, the governor & legislature should inform citizens when ALL the unconstitutional & illegal unearned Altruistic largesse will end, or does it continue to its logical end when all parties are consumed.

2.    Senator Michael Lamoureaux (R-POI) Senate Pro Tem:  “I don’t think there will be any cuts to Medicaid”…dittoed by the Speaker of the House, Davy Carter (R-POI).  There is some evidence that Lamoureaux & Carter have formed a serious nexus with Beebe (D).

The bone of contention is this, President Barack Obama created the “Federal Affordable Care Act”, which at this juncture is financially overwhelming business communities, exorbitant costs & rationed healthcare, and mammoth tax increases across the board.

To put all this in perspective, the bill for Arkansas welfare is a $5.5 Billion per year and escalating, devoid of means testing and as mentioned earlier, fraught with illegals and at this juncture presently there are 780,000 Arkansas residents on welfare out of the total state population of 2.5 million. The “shortfall” for this Altruist behemoth is projected to be somewhere between $140 million to $298 million for this year.

The governor and some members of the legislature are pushing for an additional 250,000 to the above population, presenting producers with a body count of at least 1,030,000 dependents bodies to mother. 

This feel-good Politically Correct Altruistic approach to government, which is nothing more than vote buying and position gathering, has all but destroyed Western Civilization, our heritage, and our standard of living…all by design brought about, in the main, by indoctrinated, dumbed-down citizen Americans who vote to retain elected & appointed invertebrate cowards term after term. OBSERVE.

The state & federal POI’s (Party of Irrelevance-Republicans) will fold like a cheap lawn chair in matters of importance…state Medicaid expansion, gun control, and nationally amnesty, gun control, tax increases, & debt ceiling abolition.  Precisely why Republicans have morphed into the realm of political irrelevance. POI’s  have only one articulated position…war & more war…what fools.

Altruism by force: Americans tethered.

Joe McCutchen

A friend sent this & it should be the battle cry of every American.  The quote “The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered & controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance”. —Cicero—55 B.C.

Evidently we have learned nothing after 2,067 years.

From Cicero to Uvalde.   Arkansas Senator Uvalde Lindsay—among many of his foolish statements the following quote sets the tenor for the 2013 Ark. Legislative session….Lindsay said “It wouldn’t be fair to extend Medicaid coverage to an additional 250,000 Arkansans for 3 years, then take that coverage away”.  His quote says it all.

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Democrats & the POI


Deals From the Democrats & the POI.                      January 4, 2013

When the media & politicians exhort that deals are in the making—BEWARE!  The exhortation “Deals” in political parlance states loudly & clearly that middleclass citizens are about to be screwed again.

Citizens that are not comatose or complicit are aware that President Obama’s Arkansas’ enabler Gov. Mike Beebe is well on the way to putting another 250,000 (that is ¼ MILLION) residents on the Arkansas Medicaid welfare rolls.  I say residents simply because we do not know how illegal Mexicans & OTM’s are programed into the travesty and our governor, out of the side of his mouth, states he does not know how many illegals are nesting in the Natural State—a lie.

Enter incoming President of the Arkansas Senate Michael Lamoureux (POI—Russellville) who stated “I am open to Medicaid Deal” and he believes a deal can be accomplished that adds another 250,000 deadbeats to the welfare rolls of an already ultra-bloated bureaucracy. The august legislative body states it will not cost Arkansas citizens one dime, it will be paid for by the federal government…with what?  Are our legislators so simple-minded enough to believe anything emanating out of DC is an absolutism? And just where do said legislators think the Fed gets the money?

Lamoureux and other members of the former Republican Party, now the “Party of Irrelevance” (POI) will tell their constituents they are against more new taxes and for limited government.  What a crock!  Some of their POI brothers in D.C. increased the debt ceiling, accompanied by a current deficit of $16.4 TRILLION and 2 of the Arkansas’ POI’s voted to increase taxes (the Fiscal Cliff)—the “Travellin’ Man Senator John Boozman (POI), the tax & spender Rep. Steve Womack (POI-Rogers), and Rep. Mike Ross (D) who cast the deciding vote to enshrine us with Obamacare, followed by the big legislative zero Sen. (Pryor’s for life) Mark Pryor (D).

The “Deal” will be consummated as usual and middleclass Arkansans will continue to be oppressed with more political & economic burdens and cowardice.   The POI’s will fold like a cheap lawn chair pursuing their own perceived self-interests.

What is the end-game of “welfare mania” that Obama and his legislative disciples are pursuing—is it a 3rd World, multi-cultural, communist society?  It appears so.

Arkansas legislators do not seem to understand or care that our former preeminent Republic is bankrupt and if you question that remark look no further than the $75-100 TRILLION in unfunded mandates—Social Security, Medicare, and yes Medicaid.

The projected add-on will put at least 1,030,000 on welfare in Arkansas with a population of 2.5 million. Governor Beebe has added approximately 4,000 new state employees since initially taking office.  A study released today states the addition of 250,000 Arkansas residents to the welfare rolls will create 6,000 new jobs.  THE 6,000 ARE NOT JOBS BUT STATE GOVERNMENT POSITIONS, ALL OF WHICH DEMAND MORE TAX REVENUE FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR WHO UNDERGIRDS THE WELFARE THEFT, COMPLIMENTS OF ARKANSAS LEGISLATORS WHO ALLEGEDLY ARE ENGAGED IN THE GUARDING OF INDIVIDUALS’ FREEDOMS & PROPERTY!
Do the existing and projected numbers not send cold chills up the backs of taxpayers?

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net   

Crocks of Lies….election hot air!



What a Crock—make that 4 Crocks!  All newspaper headlines today.  November 8, 2012

In order—Crocks 1 & 2: Senators Mark Pryor & John Boozman

Both parasitic legislative zeros are urging immediate attention to the “fiscal cliff”.  

The immediate question becomes, where were these 2 zeros in 2004, 2008, & 2012???  In these years Democrats & Republicans were engaging our country in unconstitutional, criminal wars under the guise of a “war on terror”, while running up Trillions in deficits.  What can you possibly expect from these two?  Pryor will stick his finger in the wind, Boozman will say a few nice things about veterans as he & his wife are boarding the next military jet bound for some global destination.

This year 2012, with the national debt hovering in the neighborhood of $16 Trillion, both voted for Wall St. bailouts, resurrecting Chrysler & General Motors, extended unemployment benefits to 2 or more years, while allowing millions of 3rd World nationals to enter our country as full time residents both legally & illegally.  The crowning blow came when both of these Zeros voted to extend the debt ceiling, and the lying beat goes on.

Crock 3:  Governor Beebe: “Let’s cooperate!”  Gov. Beebe has been slopping in the Democrat trough for 35 years, hammering Republicans at every turn and certainly no “cooperation” in all those years when Republicans were a minority party.  Simpleton Arkies give this guy a 72% approval rating…but after all he did lower the grocery tax ½ %…now that’s progress! At the same time wanting to put ¼ million more deadbeats on welfare.

That changed Nov. 6 when Republicans became the majority party and now the governor declares “Let’s cooperate”.  This dude is one slick slicker and the thing here is Republicans are equally corrupt and will fall squarely into Beebe’s political trap. Forced transparency by the Governor.

Crock 4:  House Speaker John Boehner “ready to deal”…..so what’s new?  That’s the mantra of all politicians.   This is the same guy who railed “No more new taxes” and promptly led the House majority Republicans into raising the debt ceiling.

Our former preeminent republic now enjoys a $16 Trillion debt and growing by the minute while accruing unfunded mandates, i.e. Medicaid, Social Security, Medicare to the tune of between $75-100 Trillion dollars.

Do you really believe the above 4 Crocks and the rest will actually provide a solution to our economic crisis, i.e. cut, cut, cut?  Certainly not, they are political & economic self-serving cowards.

Joe McCutchen

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More Republican Whoring Enabling the Democrats


The Republican Whoring continues; now enter the Chief Whore Gov. Mike Beebe.     October 10, 2012

It appears more so every hour evidence of the scandalous attack on Rep. Jon Hubbard & another two whom I do not know was given birth by the governor and transmitted by the Left Over the Clift Associated Press. 30 minutes after the stories hit the wire & internet, without any inquiry or objective thought, Republicans caved and immediately instituted their attack on one of the most substantive & HONEST State Representative.

Political Correctness & Political Cowardice…the death of America.

The attack on Rep. Jon Hubbard is a graphic example of what political cowards we continue to elect cycle after cycle; in this case Beebe heads the list.  The thought that Beebe will have to live with a Republican dominated legislature is driving him to the nearest psychiatrist.
I will again point out the chief Republican whores, along with Beebe, who are enflaming the state in hopes of gaining political advantage. The Republicans are so fearful of the word “race” that they have willingly been duped in joining Back-Room Beebe’s tactics.  Here are the principal so-called elite Republicans that are more than willing to continue their vicious unsupported incendiaries directed at Rep. Jon Hubbard…GOP Chairman Doyle Webb, U.S. Representatives Rick Crawford & Tim Griffin.
Rep. Hubbard had the temerity to pose questions and make logical observations regarding the status of Blacks in America. A perfectly valid question and one of genuine concern of the Representative simply asked if Blacks are better off now or 1861 or their native Africa?  If we had elected Statesmen this question would have been addressed many years ago, with the endgame being, what can be done to turn the fortunes of Black Americans around?  The legislative zeroes we elect & continue to elect are never going to address the Black racial tragedy or any other true dilemma.  Another Hubbard rational question: how long  are Affirmative Action, racial quotas, & set-asides to continue.

The three Republican Whores and the Democrat Whore continue to hurl incendiaries, i.e. “divisive, racially inflammatory, disappointed, disturbed”, etc.  Note, these legislative zeroes never defend their positions, they cut & run.

Blacks, as a group & Americans all, tragically are at the bottom of every indicator. Does anyone think the illegal Mexican & OTM invasion, and the inordinate amount of welfare dumped on Black Americans, principally by Democrats has had anything to do with their failures?  Blacks as a group has enjoyed super freedoms, more than any other racial entity and been showered with unearned money and positions.  Still no serious, honest discussions from legislative zeroes regarding the plight of Black America.

What is Gov. Beebe’s solution?  Answer: put another ¼ million Blacks, illegals, & a scattering of whites on Medicaid welfare.  Beebe will quickly tell you that the federal government says they will pay for all this largesse.  Question:  Where does the federal government get the money, who pays, and has it occurred to him and the Marxist Obama that our Republic is $16 Trillion in the arrears and is buried under $75-100 Trillion in unfunded mandates generated by Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Eternal Wars, etc.  Beebe, tell us again where this money is coming from in view of the burgeoning debts.

What kind of individuals would attack a man, without inquiry and objectivity, planning not only to destroy the messenger, but the TRUTH which is an anathema to them & of which they are terrified.

I stand with Rep. Hubbard because his foundation is one of honesty, courage, and consideration for his fellow man.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Ark. A.G. McDaniel…the Jonesboro people are capable of judging without your negative  input.
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