Seven Out Of Ten Is Bad > Versailles Upon The Potomac No Longer Cares How The Other Half Lives: Seven out of ten is bad. Really bad. Outstandingly bad. When seven out of the ten richest counties in America are proximate to Washington, DC, this is a statistical harbinger of national decline. Our current president not only didn’t change Washington from the inside, he quickly concluded he had no particular reason to want t
Russ Douthat exaggerates some when he compares Washington, DC to the national capital in the novel The Hunger Games. he describes in the concentration of power and wealth
Whence comes this wealth? Mostly from Washington’s one major industry: the federal government. Not from direct federal employment, which has risen only modestly of late, but from the growing armies of lobbyists and lawyers, contractors and consultants, who make their living advising and influencing and facilitating the public sector’s work…
All of this is subsidized. Mostly by people who are held in utter contempt by the fine and dazzling DC socialites. Meanwhile, beyond the glitter and the glory, a nation is far less prosperous.
Last night on CBS's "60 Minutes," President Obama claimed, "I haven't raised taxes." But, as Heritage's Alyene Senger and John Fleming report, tax hikes included in Obamacare total $836.3 billion.
"I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." -- Thomas Jefferson
TWEETS
Obama's Right Brain Valerie Jarrett: The Next Van Jones Except She Is Worse & Far, Far More Powerful! http://t.co/AFcvtTXM
Great post: The Gun As A Force Equalizer! (Even progs might see this truth) http://bit.ly/TslRQ8
SLIMY! I-Wouldn't-Wear-A-US-Pin-In-Chief's Campaign Removes Desecrated US Flag, Lies About It http://bit.ly/Om8LSB
It's time to update the COEXIST Sticker to this: http://bit.ly/PRWt0R
HOLY CRAP: Here's a photo of a Romney-Ryan rally today in Ohio you won't see in antique media! http://bit.ly/PdZHLn
#Sharia in USA? Don't believe it? Watch this Obama minion squirm.. http://bit.ly/POpA5f
Arrogance run amok! Obama Starts Ball Rolling for Michelle to Run http://bit.ly/QNGGzG
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