THE STEVE YUHAS
UNIQUELY
CONSERVATIVE
FOR
SUNDAY,
23, 2012
ON THE
With
just days until Christmas everybody at the Steve Yuhas Show wishes you and your
family a most joyous holiday and Merry Christmas (we all know you’re not
supposed to say Merry Christmas, but we’re edgy that way). Enjoy this time with
your friends and families.
President
Obama and his family went ‘home’ for Christmas (and by home the White House
isn’t talking about their house in Chicago where he’s lived most of his life) –
they’re talking about a $8 million estate in Hawaii. His vacation
there will cost the American taxpayers about $7 million and his family won’t
even return after Christmas with him.
The White House defends this travel as the First Family taking a “rest
together” after “grueling campaign.”
Since when did we start paying for relaxing after a job interview? By
the way: the home only rents for $3500 a day so think of the ENORMOUS COSTS of
getting them there and back.
After his vacation he returns to
the USA to tell the American people that Republicans are to blame for hitting
the fictitious ‘fiscal cliff’ (forget that the GOP sent bills to the Senate in
the summer to avoid the cliff and sequestration), but how did talks break down?
The
back-story is interesting and it had to do with a game of chess with the
American people’s money. When
the Speaker of the House said he would give $800 BILLION in revenue (taxes) and
asked what the GOP could get by way of cuts the president said, “Nothing.”
With the ‘fiscal cliff’ a reality
(unless a deal is done in the next week) we’re going back to the Clinton
years. Outside of the obvious and obtuse
argument that it is going to be a disaster after touting it the entire
Democratic convention this summer, people
are moving around and they’re leaving high tax states for low tax ones and the
only place growing by government is D.C. (and it won’t stop).
Many in the press are labeling the
NRA as ‘doubling down’ on ‘controversial’ gun ownership rights. Controversial
to whom? Americans have a right
to bear arms and to own guns – the notion that you take away a right because of
a tragedy is odd – consider what would happen if people advocated closing
newspapers that printed stories government didn’t like. We have rights for a reason.
Speaking of bearing arms:
militants in Benghazi apparently can carry weapons with reckless abandon, kill
American ambassadors and Navy SEALs without reprisal. Nothing has happened since the September
terrorist attack on our embassy in Libya, but the
State Department released a paper that said nothing.
Welfare used to be thought of by
people in the USA as a ‘Scandinavian issue’ that was perfected with cradle to
grave coverage. But, times have changed
and Britain
rose to the top of the heap with 70% of all children in that island nation
living in a home with a welfare check arriving each month. The Brits cannot afford it to continue, but
they don’t know what to do when they over-promise… neither do we.
The gun debate rages and manufacturers
of weapons in the state of Illinois says that a gun ban in that state will
force them to move. You’d move
too if the state you called home wanted to ban your product, but the governor
there wants them to stay, despite the ban.
More kids died in Chicago this year than attended
kindergarten classes in Newtown, CT & it didn’t get a presidential visit or
a special graphic on TV.
We are officially Greece with postal
workers going on a hunger strike to show that they don’t want mail delivery to
be decreased from six days a week to five. Who would have thought in the United States
we’d have hunger strikes for government workers? By the way: they can eat on their ‘strike’
and it has an end date.
This
degree of narcissism is something not many of us will ever see. Apparently using me, my, I, etc. in a eulogy
is the highest form of flattery for Obama who spoke about Medal of Honor
recipient and now dead Hawaii Senator Inouye to talk about, well, himself... No
shame. None.
The
LA Times has their year-end retrospective on the big stories of the year. Oddly it reads
like this was one of the best years ever – do you think this was the best ever?
